Sharon Dirckx IVP, 2013 £8.99 Pb 176pp, ISBN 9781844746194 Reviewed by Laurence Crutchlow, a London GP and CMF Associate Head of Student Ministries It is all too easy to reduce suffering to an intellectual question, forgetting that the questioner is very often dealing with a deep personal hurt that is behind what...
'To acknowledge, love and obey God as the creator, sustainer and Lord of all life' Laurence Crutchlow explores the first of CMF's values. This first of CMF's values is the foundation; the one that underpins the other nine. To analyse it, we'll look at who God is, and then what...
As well as a modicum of cricket (Heroes and Heretics, page 32), this issue begins a new series of articles explaining CMF's beliefs and values. CMF holds to an evangelical basis of faith, shared with UCCF, which outlines our core beliefs. CMF members sign the simple affirmation: 'I am in...
Tim Keller, Hodder and Stoughton 2010 £9.00 if purchased via CMF website Often there is tension between sharing God's word and caring for the poor. Though meaning to do both, it is easy for local churches to polarise toward one or the other. For some, evangelism and preaching are rightly central –...
Events at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust during the late 2000s came as a shock to the British public. Concerns were raised by patients' relatives about poor standards of care on the wards at Stafford hospital, leading to an inquiry which reported in 2010. 1 Problems with feeding of patients, soiled...
new GMC guidance The updated 2013 version of Good Medical Practice (GMP) was published on 25 March. GMP defines the standards against which doctors in the UK are judged in fitness to practise cases, and is therefore a very important document. The guidance is also used as the basis for doctors'...
This edition of Nucleus focuses on healing brokenness. It should come as no surprise to medical students that much about our world is not as it should be. Anyone working in medicine sees the effects of disease every day; the shaking hands of the Parkinson's sufferer, the look of despair...
'Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith (Hebrews 12:2, NIV 1984) Fixing our eyes upon Jesus can often seem more of a dream than a reality. We say that he is central to what we do, of course, and usually mean to keep...
doctors' industrial action 21 June 2012 saw the first industrial action by UK doctors since the 1970s. A ballot undertaken during May had shown strong support for 'industrial action short of a strike' among British Medical Association (BMA) members. This followed a dispute over changes to the NHS pension scheme which...
Laurence Crutchlow is CMF Associate Head of Student Ministries and a GP in London. As Nucleus goes to press, the London Olympics have just ended. Our fears of travel chaos closing the CMF office have thankfully been unfounded – though our work rate might now speed up with...