• Author: Gillian Straine

    The Revd. Dr. Gillian Straine is the Director of the Guild of Health and St Raphael, an ecumenical organisation committing to promoting health, healing and wholeness within the Christian tradition. Her doctoral research explored the radiative properties of the atmosphere and involved flying in planes around storm systems. Gillian writes on science and religion, and healing (Science and Religion: a path through polemic, SPCK 2014; Cancer: a pilgrim companion, SPCK 2017)

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What to do when you get cancer at 21

// There is potential that the suffering of the journey is not a means to an end, but a real place of discovery of both God and our identity in God.

Written by Gillian Straine

Confident apologetics  

// Christians need to be unafraid of science and unafraid to let it inform our faith.

Written by Gillian Straine

Escape from ISIS

// Dispatches, 'Escape from ISIS' airs tonight at 10pm on Channel 4.

Written by Gillian Straine

A fear of infinity

// Striking a balance between the 'shouty' God of the universe, and the God who knitted you together in the womb.

Written by Gillian Straine

Does matter matter?

// Reconciling the uncertainty of quantum physics and God.

Written by Gillian Straine

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