Faith Forming Faith, Faith Shaping Ministry

Here are these three different gifts of our Lutheran theological and liturgical tradition that help us bear baptismal fruit that will last, once we’re out of the font: Luther’s baptismal theology of a daily dying and rising. The weekly rhythm of the assembly gathering around Word and Sacrament. The wonder and mystery that is the liturgical year. Each of these gifts in their own way urge and equip us to get beyond the waters of an individualized baptismal security tank and into the world to serve, the very place to which the tide of our baptismal waters is meant to carry us

Interactive data exploration with targeted projection pursuit

Data exploration is a vital, but little considered, part of the scientific process; but few visualisation tools can cope with truly complex data. Targeted Projection Pursuit (TPP) is an interactive data exploration technique that provides an intuitive and transparent interface for data exploration. A prototype has been evaluated quantitatively and found to outperform algorithmic techniques on standard visual analysis tasks

Intimacy and Antipathy: Ukrainian–Russian Relations in Historical Perspective

Explores what the complex entangled histories of Russia and Ukraine can teach us about their trouble relationship today

Ukrainophile Activism and Imperial Governance in Russia's Southwestern Borderlands

Explores the relationship between the Ukrainian nation-building process and the tsarist state

Know How and Acts of Faith

My topic in this paper is the nature of faith. Much of the discussion concerning the nature of faith proceeds by focussing on the relationship between faith and belief. In this paper, I explore a different approach. I suggest that we approach the question of what faith involves by focussing on the relationship between faith and action. When we have faith, we generally manifest it in how we act; we perform acts of faith: we share our secrets, rely on other’s judgment, refrain from going through our partner’s emails, let our children prepare for an important exam without our interference. Religious faith, too is manifested in acts of faith: attending worship, singing the liturgy, fasting, embarking on a pilgrimage. I argue that approaching faith by way of acts of faith, reveals that faith is a complex mental state whose elements go beyond doxastic states towards particular propositions. It also involves conative states and – perhaps more surprisingly – know how. This has consequences for the epistemology of faith: the role of testimony and experts, the importance of practices, and what we should make of Pascal’s advice for how to acquire faith

Faith

A brief article on faith as a psychological attitude