Here are some of my articles for Quench’s Debate page over the last few months: Dating: An individualistic, consumerist and self-centred method of relationships? (website, pdf) The Meaning of Life: How the glory of God gives meaning to all we are and do. (website, pdf) Space: The final frontier or a distraction from life on […]
I’m currently working on a couple of posts, specifically: a discussion of the ideas in the shocking final episode of Life on Mars editing some of my contributions to online discussions of Penal Substitutionary Atonement (such as on Ship of Fools), defending the idea that Jesus died in our place to take away the punishment […]
There’s a funny piece over on Boundless Line about the dangers of “dihydrogen monoxide”. Unfortunately it uses it as a way of taking a side-swipe at us humans causing global warming. For some reason, the Religious Right in America seems particularly hostile to the idea – which given its political influence, and the overwhelming evidence […]
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. So said Marx, and it seems that Russell […]
Word Alive and Spring Harvest, two Christian conferences that for many years have held a joint event, are parting company over the issue of Penal Substitutionary Atonement (whether Jesus died to take the punishment for our sins on the Cross, PSA for short). Adrian Warnock has given a good summary of what’s happened on his […]
One idea people have about religion is that it means hanging your brain up at the door, and just accepting a certain set of dogmas unquestioningly. Even some Christians view questions with suspicion as something dangerous and insubordinate. On a recent discussion on Ship of Fools, one person argued that: making this concept of supernatural […]
I’ve been rather busy, what with the Christian Union mission week and various other exciting stuff, so I’ve not had chance to post to my blog much recently. But I’ve got round to editing what some of what I wrote in an email to someone about my L’abri trip for general reading on my blog, […]
“I hate the Narnia books,” said Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, “and I hate them with deep and bitter passion, with their view of childhood as a golden age from which sexuality and adulthood are a falling away”. [link] The essay I found most interesting to write last year (and got […]
So says the website of Worldview Weekend, on a scale of “Communist/Marxist/Socialist/Secular Humanist Worldview Thinker” to “Strong Biblical Worldview Thinker”! According to Worldview Weekend, some of the “Correct Answers” for someone with a “Biblical worldview” that I failed to give included: Strongly Agreeing with the statement “All forms of government-sponsored socialism stifle economic growth and […]
I’ve recently got back home from Contagious 2006: The Cross. Contagious is a Christian youth conference for 14 to 19 year olds – not so much a holiday as a Bible boot camp! I went to Contagious’s very first year back when I was fourteen, and have been back every year since then. This year […]
