Academics
There are growing opportunities for evangelical academics to share practical fellowship with the student ministries in Europe.
Evangelistic Lectures and Dialogues
The FEUER Academic Speakers’ Network organises events to equip Christian academics for the public commendation of the gospel in European universities. It does this via an annual track at the Cambridge Apologetics conference (June), an annual conference in Spain or Greece (October), and a year-round Emerging Academic Speakers programme.
The FEUER Academics’ Network began in 2016 and was headed up by Prof John Lennox for ten years, and aims to continue his legacy by training up other academics who can similarly engage the big questions in their field and point people to Christ. Network members receive training and benefit from giving small group practice talks with peer feedback. Invitations to the conference are handled through recommendation from your national IFES movement, and the gatherings take place alongside gatherings for university ministry staff, mission week organisers, and others, leading to introductions and speaking opportunities.
Resource Development & Essay Prize
We are a founding partner of The Gospel and Academia Project which seeks to strengthen an evangelical contribution to the wider faith-and-scholarship conversation by providing a dedicated space for those whose primary confessional commitments are clear but who would like to help each other fill what is often perceived as a ‘gap’ when it comes to an evangelical concentration in this arena.
The first phase of the project was theological in focus and explores three foundational principles for effective gospel partnership within this sector. The second phase has recently begun alongside it and focusses on commissioning discipline-specific case study examples, annotated bibliographies and contributions on specific themes which feed into the wider Good News for the University ministries.
Visit the GAP site to explore the resources that have come out of the first two phases so far.