Approaching the Jesus Myth with Others Given the Christmas cheer and the anti-Christian, anti-Jesus rhetoric one typically hears around this time, I thought I might do a simple...
Understanding the Incarnation IV: The Coherence of Christian Doctrine In this series of posts I have been considering an argument from The Resurrection of God Incarnate by Oxford professor of philosophy...
Understanding the Incarnation III: Helping Humanity to Live Morally Good Lives In this series of posts I have been considering an argument by Oxford professor of philosophy Richard Swinburne. In The Resurrection of God...
Understanding the Incarnation II: A Means of Making Atonement The biologist Richard Dawkins suggests that the Christian claim God became incarnate and was crucified is incongruous and improbable on its...
Understanding the Incarnation I: An Obligation to Share in Human Suffering “If God wanted to forgive our sins,” complains Dawkins in The God Delusion, “why not just forgive them, without having...
The Possibility of Miracles One of the skeptic’s most familiar complaints about Christianity is that it asks us to believe in a lot of mythological nonsense that has...
If God Commands Something Evil, Does That Make it Right? Many Christians believe that we have a moral obligation to obey what God commands. Since God commands us not to murder or commit adultery...
When in Doubt It is part of human nature to doubt. In a world in which the prominent worldviews are contrary to Christianity, it is no surprise that many...
What Is Wrong With Watching Pornography? Has pornography really become morally and socially acceptable? If a fluff piece reposted on the Herald website is any indication, the...