Faith

Here you can find my thoughts on faith, the Bible and theology. My Christian faith is very important to me, and informs everything I do in one way or another. I believe that God is real and has revealed himself through Jesus Christ and in the pages of the Bible, and that the truth of these things is open to rational investigation – I’d invite you to read the Bible and to explore the evidence for yourself.

Intelligent design or unintelligent drivel?

By Caleb | March 16, 2006

That’s the question I set out to examine in this week’s Gair Rhydd. The article as published can be read online, but what follows is the uncut and extended edition, presented for your reading pleasure… Intelligent Design for DummiesScience, religion and politics have collided in an explosive mix in America recently with the controversy surrounding […]

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The Bible and Welsh

By Caleb | November 3, 2005

My church here in Cardiff, Mackintosh Evangelical Church, has been doing a series on how we got the Bible, and I’ve been asked to do a piece on how we got the Bible in Welsh. Here’s what I had to say: In 1533, Henry VIII passed the Acts of Union, formally bringing Wales comprehensively under […]

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Revolutionary Christianity

By Caleb | May 7, 2005

I’ve been thinking over some stuff recently, and I wrote this which I’ve posted on the Cardiff CU message board: How dare we turn Christianity into the respectable, sanitized and insipid parody of the radical teachings of Jesus Christ that we so often live today? Christianity shouldn’t be something nice and polite and middle class. […]

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Thrilling adventures in time and space

By Caleb | April 2, 2005

I’ve just finished a history essay on “how do medieval attitudes to time and space differ from modern ones?” It’s been very interesting to research and write, to be honest. In particular, I’ve enjoyed Allan Chapman’s book Gods in the Sky, which is about the history of astronomy, and in particular the impact of religion […]

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Good Friday – what’s it mean?

By Caleb | March 25, 2005

Good Friday – what’s it mean? Today’s the day when we remember that momentous event, when Jesus Christ died on a cross to take the sins of the world. I’ve seen some debates on places like Ship of Fools, and in the wake of Steve Chalke’s controversial comments, about what did Jesus’ death (and resurrection) […]

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Crossing Continents

By Caleb | March 9, 2005

On Monday, I heard a very interesting programme on Radio 4 about the cultural clash between Christian and secular America. It covered such things as the school in America that has introduced Intelligent Design into its curriculum, home schooling and a new Christian University. You can hear it online at by going here. It’s particularly […]

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Debating Competition!

By Caleb | February 27, 2005

Yesterday I was off at the Welsh national Debating competition at the University of Glamorgan, which was good fun. My partner was Dai Suke, who I’ll say a bit more about later. The motions we debated were: This house believes that the state should stop binge-drinking This house believes Iran should be next This house […]

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My denomination…

By Caleb | October 12, 2004

According to the Smart Select Christian denomination selector, the denomination I am most in agreement with is Reformed Baptist, which I found simulateously quite interesting and utterly pointless. Interestingly, Roman Catholicism is down in number 20 just below Jehovah’s Witnessism and just above Mormonism – rather interesting company!

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