Matt Flannagan will be speaking at Unitec next Thursday on the topic “Is belief in God rational when you can’t prove that God exists?”.

Don Carson’s latest book is an excellent introduction to the Biblical storyline, through the lens of God’s character and work in history. Andy Naselli has just posted the audio from Carson’s 14-part seminar at Bethlehem Baptist Church as a helpful introduction to the book’s material.

In his book The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict William Cavanaugh argues against the common notion that religion is particularly and inherently prone to divisiveness and violence. Brad S. Gregory, from First Things, offers his review.

In a three-part series, Matt has been exploring Peter Singer’s discussion of the Euthyphro Dilemma. He has argued that Singer’s objections fail to undermine Divine Command Ethics and are essentially a strawman; he has addressed the Arbitrariness Objection and now he concludes by examining the Redundancy Objection.

In a three-part series, Matt explores Peter Singer’s discussion of the Euthyphro Dilemma and argues that Singer’s objections fail to undermine Divine Command Ethics. This time Matt examines the Arbitrariness Objection.

Video of the lectures delivered at the special conference held to honour Alvin Plantinga’s retirement from the University of Notre Dame.

David Brog writes about how Christians might react to the news of Christopher Hitchens’ cancer.

This September, Catalyst is hosting their National Conference on reconciling faith and work.

In a three-part series, Matt explores Peter Singer’s discussion of the Euthyphro Dilemma and argues that Singer’s objections fail to undermine Divine Command Ethics. Matt begins by explaining Divine Command Theory and highlights the importance of avoiding strawmen.

At the beginning of the twentieth century the First Quest for the historical Jesus had failed. This dead state would not remain however. The third installment of this series will briefly survey the quest for the historical Jesus during the twentieth century.

Most credit Samuel Reimarus as the person to initiate the quest for the historical Jesus. He was not, however, without predecessors that laid his groundwork. Part two of this series briefly looks at what happened beforehand and during the first quest for the historical Jesus.

The scandal of Christianity is that it is a religion grounded in historical events, which if they can be demonstrated to be false, would empty it of meaning and all power. Chief among those historical events is the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. I begin this ten part series with a goal in mind: to establish the description of the person of Jesus of Nazareth in the gospel narratives as truly historical. Part One of this series is a short introduction.

This years Ligonier National Conference looked at some of the tough questions that Christians and non-Christians find perplexing. The video from the sessions of the first day of the conference have just been posted.

Football for one. And maybe philosophy. If you’ve been following the World Cup, you might enjoy this Greece vs Germany football clip.

Philosopher Brian Garvey has written an article in the latest volume of Ars Disputandi, exploring Bertrand Russell’s famous celestial teapot.

On June 25, Dr Peter Adam will be speaking at St Margaret’s Anglican Church in Auckland on the topic of Christian spirituality.

Some questions asked by Ken Perrott on the role of evidence and its relation to the what makes acceptable beliefs are answered by Stuart.

Video from the recent debate between philosopher John Haldane and author Christopher Hitchens on the question of which worldview provides a superior public philosophy.