Global warming overhyped?

By Caleb | April 24, 2007

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 […]

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Love and the Cross Controversy

By Caleb | April 20, 2007

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 […]

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The importance of asking questions

By Caleb | March 18, 2007

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 […]

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Of Man’s First Disobedience: Childhood and the Fall in Narnia and His Dark Materials

By Caleb | December 19, 2006

“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 […]

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I’m a secular humanist, apparently

By Caleb | November 3, 2006

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 […]

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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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