In this season of harvest and celebration, scholar/teacher/novelist David Russell Mosley offers a reflection on feasting in the Christian tradition.Read more…
Author Interview: David Russell Mosley
David Russell Mosley chats with ESN about writing a novel and a PhD thesis at the same time, publishing them both for a wider audience, and why beauty matters for Christian academics. Read more…
Scholar’s Call: A Theologian Praying
How does your understanding of Christian theology/spirituality shape your discipline if you are a theologian? David Russell Mosley explores. Read more…
Scholar’s Compass: Myth Made Fact
I love reading fairy-tales and fantasy. That’s probably become evident from the very first devotion looking at creativity according to Milbank. There is a good chance that part of my love of these stories from the Perilous Realm, as Tolkien calls it, comes from my upbringing.Read more…
Scholar’s Compass: The Fantastic and the Real
David Russell Mosley continues a three part series exploring how human creativity participates in God’s creativity. Read more…
Scholar’s Compass: Creativity as Gift
Today, David Russell Mosley begins a three part series exploring how human creativity participates in God’s creativity, a subject he explores as a scholar of theology and writer of poetry.Read more…
Scholar’s Compass: Sir Gawain Seeks Christmas
One of my favourite Medieval, Middle-English poems (if you don’t have one you really should), is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It begins at a Christmas feast in King Arthur’s court. All are feasting and laughing when suddenly a giant of a man comes riding into the hall where the courtiers are feasting.Read more…
Scholar’s Compass: Learning From Father Christmas
This time of year, namely Advent, gets us, or at least me, excited for a particular individual: namely Father Christmas. I have a bit of an obsession with Father Christmas.Read more…
Advent: The New Year Begins (Scholar’s Compass)
We are arrived at the beginning of the New Year. Read more…