Never Done: Endurance. Purpose. Faith.

Received wisdom is that evolution is a more-or-less open-ended process, and lacks any predictability. This applies to all species, including humans. We too are just another historical accident, of no more (or less) significance than a snake or dragon fruit. Central to this supposition are not only random factors such as mutations, but the claim…

‘Only through time time is conquered’, writes T. S. Eliot famously in “Burnt Norton”, the first poem of the Four Quartets. Eliot’s long poem takes us through London’s alleyways and evocative rose–gardens, passing through summer trees and the figured leaf, asking uncertain and uneasy questions. Where are we, as human dancers, in all this history of…

Science and religion have had had a long and complicated global history of engagement. This has been shaped by a combination of factors inherent to the particular areas of scientific and religious activity involved, as well as by the prevailing historical and cultural contexts. In Hong Kong, academic scientists are more religious than the general…

Synopsis Journalist Jennifer Lin will discuss Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family, a heartrending family memoir that follows the course of five generations of the Lin family. From the first convert in a fishing village in coastal Fujian to an Ivy League-educated Anglican priest and the independent religious leader Watchman Nee, the trajectory of…

Faith@Work is a free lunchtime offering for students; connecting with HKU alumni and professionals in the real-world Natalie Chan (HKU Bachelor of Social Science, 1987) worked in the finance industry for 20 years. After obtaining an MBA from INSEAD in France in 1993, she worked at Goldman Sachs in London for the equities division serving…

In light of the ongoing environmental crisis and climate change, many have suggested that we now live in the age of the Anthropocene, an age in which the geology and ecosystem of the natural world are significantly shaped by human activities and technology. How should human beings interpret their place in this changing world? How…