There are various historical events which have been real game changers, and what transpired 500 years ago certainly was one such event that changed the…
Thousands of zealous God-deniers turned up in Washington DC on Saturday for the second ‘Reason Rally’ (the first one was held four years ago). The…
Conflicts, disputes, arguments and division are a part of life, as is the need to resolve such ruptures and heal such splits. People are always…
The record of Christian history over the past two thousand years is of course a mixed bag, with so much good at times offset with…
OK, Christmas is fast approaching, so the need to find good gifts is upon us. And what better gifts are there than books? So to…
I happen to be a Protestant evangelical. While most Christians at least should know what that means, surprisingly, many do not. Indeed, I have even…
In contemporary culture truth decay is a massive problem. That idea that there is fixed, absolute truth which applies to us all is rejected by…
We have got to the point in so much of the West where it actually seems important to start talking about the possibility or even…
On the writing about C. S. Lewis there is no end – or so it seems. And for good reason: Lewis was one of the…
To offer in effect a bibliography on God might seem to be a wild and reckless attempt. There is no greater subject in the universe…
Systematic theology, as the name implies, is simply a systematised presentation of biblical theology. Theological themes and concepts are scattered throughout the Bible, so the…
And so this is how it ends: moral meltdowns, mental malfunctions, and mass mayhem. Entire generations turned into zombies, unable to think, incapable of making…
Renowned writer and atheist Christopher Hitchens has just died at age 62 of cancer-related pneumonia. The writer, controversialist and polemicist had a distinguished career in…
“The crust of the earth is soaked with the tears of suffering.” That is how philosopher Eleonore Stump once described the problem of evil and…
Whenever I am asked where I am coming from theologically, I state that I am an evangelical Christian. However, since not everyone understands that term,…
Since my last article on this topic drew a number of comments (I was expecting only one or two), maybe it is worth writing more…
Admittedly my writings may not always be everyone’s cup of tea. Here I almost guarantee to reduce my audience quite substantially. Indeed, I may be…
When I first started writing about Bible commentaries a few days ago, I did not realise it would blow out into a four-part series. But…
Some folks have declared April 1 to be National Atheist Day. Be that as it may, in the past four or five years a spate…
Those who dislike God and religion are stuck with the fact that the overwhelming majority of the world’s population has been, and is, religious. So…