who is the judge?

Yesterday I went to the Royal Society for a presentation hosted by the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, launching a new set of study materials exploring the relationship between belief in (a) god and science, called Test of Faith. The 30 minute DVD documentary (the first in a series) was ok in terms [...]

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the biggest hoax

Here’s a lovely interview with Father Zakaria Botros, a Coptic priest, whose brother was killed by Muslims for evangelising them, and who himself is dedicated to proclaiming the gospel of Christ to Muslims.
He’s wonderfully straight talking. Based on years of careful study, he concludes that Islam is, ‘the biggest hoax perpetrated on the human [...]

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something a man might be glad to believe

Perhaps we are not following Christ all the way or in quite the right spirit. We are apt, for example, to be a little sparing of the psalms and the hosannas. We are chary of wielding the scourge of small cords, lest we should offend somebody or interfere with trade. We do [...]

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the strong hands of God

‘Why doesn’t God smite this dictator [Hitler] dead?’ is a question a little remote from us. Why, madam, did He not strike you dumb and imbecile before you uttered that baseless and unkind slander the day before yesterday? Or me, before I behaved with such cruel lack of consideration to that well-meaning friend? [...]

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easter articles

Two Easter related newspaper articles in the national press today:
A. N. Wilson has returned to the Christian faith he abandoned in his youth. In an article urging Christians not to be cowed by ‘all the liberal clever-clogs on the block’, he describes movingly his belief in the risen Christ, and takes on the cultured [...]

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sin demonstrates God’s goodness

It seems to me that the problem of evil is the problem faced by Christian theology. Not that the alternatives are any better, just that, precisely because sin is an act of madness, fundamentally irrational, the existence of evil in the world is not, ultimately susceptible to rational analysis. Nevertheless, this is an [...]

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halloween

I don’t at the moment have any way of evaluating his claims, and I’m always suspicious of things that contain claims with the structure: “I don’t know…but doubtless…”, but, given that everyone’s grumbling about Halloween, this article by Jim Jordan gives an interesting, and at least potentially plausible, alternative take.

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creationism and apologetics

6 day 24 hour young-earth creationism is sometimes dismissed as apologetically embarrassing and harmful. But in a postmodern setting, it ought actually to help.
Postmodernism claims to celebrate difference and diversity, but it offers no way of integrating difference. In fact, as John Milbank claims, postmodernism is predicated on an ontology of violence. For Derrida and [...]

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