Academic

This is where I write on academic research, theology, literature, philosophy, ethics, and professional life.

Great ecumenists you should know

01 Was Jesus the first ecumenist?

Thoughts on vocation

01 Why am I here? 

02 Vocation and the way of Jesus

03 Vocation in the Hebrew Bible: examples

04 Vocation and the Hebrew Bible: principles

05 Vocation in the New Testament: examples

06 Vocation in the New Testament: principles

07 How to find your vocation

08 Is my career my vocation?

09 Personal reflections on vocation

Reflections on the Christian creeds

01 No creed but the Bible

02 What is a creed?

03 The danger of dogma

04 Creeds in the Hebrew Bible

05 The first Christian creeds

06 Are there creeds in the New Testament?

07 To creed or not to creed

08 Church traditions and the creeds (1)

09 Church traditions and the creeds (2)

10 Should churches enforce conformity to creeds?

11 A statement of beliefs commonly held by Baptists

12 Three core purposes of creeds

13 Four more purposes of creeds

14 Less power, more grace: final words on creeds

Writing on literature

Questions for book club discussions (29 Mar 2025)

Who is Mother Goose? (28 Jul 2021)

What would George do? Reflections on suffering and faith

01 Suffering and grief in the life of G H Morling (6 Apr 2020)

02 Morling on the causes of suffering (24 Apr 2020)

03 Morling on further causes of suffering (26 Apr 2020)

04 Morling on the purposes of suffering (4 May 2020)

05 Morling on further purposes of suffering (8 May 2020)

06 Morling on suffering and divine providence (12 May 2020)

07 Morling on suffering, providence, and freedom (12 Jul 2020)

08 Morling on suffering, healing and grace (19 Jul 2020)

09 Morling on suffering and glory (3 Aug 2020)

The Theology Whisperer

01 What is theological education?

02 Everyone is a theologian

03 Have faith, will think

04 Who invented theology?

05 The joy of theological learning

06 What makes Christian theology distinctive?

07 The descriptive task of theology

08 Isn’t theology supposed to be prescriptive?

09 The critical task of theology

10 The constructive task of theology (Part 1)

11 The constructive task of theology (Part 2)

12 The moral task of theology

13 The purpose of theology (part 1)

14 The purpose of theology (part 2)

15 The purpose of theology (part 3)

16 Six rewards of theological study

17 Six risks of theological study

18 What we bring to theology

26 What is critical thinking?

39 What are logical fallacies?

40 How to avoid logical fallacies

41 Five logical fallacies to avoid

65 What is academic research?

67 Five ways to improve focus while studying

68 Five steps to better memory recall

69 Five more steps to better memory recall

18 common myths about essay writing

So you want to write a literature review

Ten tips for a successful research project

Other articles on academic subjects

Nine reasons why people embrace atheism (13 Apr 2025)

Six awesome blogs for research students (Oct 2024)

Constructing the theology of G. H. Morling (Aug 2022)

25 books and articles on Martin Luther’s theology (Oct 2020)

Joy Connor on Baptist social issues (Aug 2020)

12 books on productivity and time management (Dec 2019)

The use of the Bible in Laudato Si (2015)

Joseph Fletcher and situation ethics (2002)