The first issue of the Thinking Matters Journal will be published once construction of the new Thinking Matters site is complete. The theme for our inaugural edition is “Introducing Apologetics”. We’ll focus on what apologetics is, what it involves, and why it’s important. We’ll also briefly cover the various apologetic approaches, and expand on these in the next issue.

Should Europe embrace the New Atheism? John Lennox v Christopher Hitchens

August 19, 2008

Recently, Dr John Lennox (Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University and author of God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?) and Christopher Hitchens (social commentator and author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything) debated whether the new Europe would be better off jettisoning its religious past and welcoming the new atheism. A report from an attendee summarizes the discussion at the Edinburgh event.