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Around A.D 165, news came to the city of Rome of a new infectious disease spreading from the east.  Infectious diseases were part of life...

Children from families who have immigrated are often said to be caught between two cultures. They belong to their parents’ culture but...

Part one explained that the message of the first chapter of the Bible is possibly the most influential text the world has known – ...

It was morning, and a silver fog was melting away on the bay below. A fresh, brisk Wellington wind galloped over the mountainside. I was...

Introduction In the first part of this three-part article series we looked at what ‘Scientism’ as a worldview entails. In summary it...

Introduction In the first part of this three-part article series we looked at ‘Scientism’ as a worldview. Scientism claims that all of...

Warning: This article discusses suicide. Euthanasia, assisted suicide, assisted dying, end of life choice; all are different names for the...

The first step away from Christian theism was the belief system we call Deism. This was motivated largely by the change in authority for...

When I started my Master’s degree in Conservation biology at Victoria University of Wellington, I had nothing but hope.  When I finished...

Introduction You may not have heard of the word ‘scientism’ and even if you have, you may not know what it means, but I can guarantee...

Imagine arriving in a foreign city without knowing anyone, speaking the language, or even having a map. You would be lost, forced to ask...

It turns out plenty of things get cancelled in a pandemic. Fortunately, my flights home were not among them. Anyway, flights are a small...

  My dear reader, I have a confession to make… I am addicted to consuming information. There, I said it. Podcasts. Audiobooks. The...

As Covid-19 spreads around the planet, religious people everywhere will be asking themselves the same question. If the universe is...

Why don’t we hear more about doubt? Could it be that we don’t talk about our doubts because some well-meaning people we looked up to...

A recent fluff piece in my local paper carried the headline: Newest Millionaires Say 16 Million Dollar Win Has Changed Their Lives. No one,...

“Ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,...

Do we really need five reasons to do apologetics? Isn’t it enough that God commands it? 1 Peter 3:15: “but sanctify Christ as Lord...

‘What Child is This?’ is a favourite Christmas hymn. It is based on the poem The Manger Throne by William C. Dix and sung to the tune...

The Mama Bear Apologetics book is an essential resource for Christian parents, it dives deep into the ideals that are shaping the Western...

Part I | Part III In this trilogy of articles I am highlighting the key features of an appropriate Christian response to the shooting in...

Part II | Part III In this trilogy of articles I shall be highlighting the key features of an appropriate Christian response to the...

It is often suggested that the Christian doctrine of Hell is morally unconscionable. Understanding this doctrine to be that the nonbeliever...

Given the Christmas cheer and the anti-Christian, anti-Jesus rhetoric one typically hears around this time, I thought I might do a simple...

In this series of posts I have been considering an argument from The Resurrection of God Incarnate by Oxford professor of philosophy...

In this series of posts I have been considering an argument by Oxford professor of philosophy Richard Swinburne. In The Resurrection of God...

The biologist Richard Dawkins suggests that the Christian claim God became incarnate and was crucified is incongruous and improbable on its...

“If God wanted to forgive our sins,” complains Dawkins in The God Delusion, “why not just forgive them, without having...

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...

Many Christians believe that we have a moral obligation to obey what God commands. Since God commands us not to murder or commit adultery...

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...

Has pornography really become morally and socially acceptable? If a fluff piece reposted on the Herald website is any indication, the...

Guest article written by Michael Otto. Originally posted at www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2018/07/11/engaging-with-people-on-the-problem-of-evil/....

The Hypothesis The concept of a computer simulation is familiar enough to the modern reader. It is a model world built by a computer...

“‘The Authority and Relevance of the Bible in the Modern World’ – centers in the truth of the basic assumption of Biblical...

This is the second in a series of posts examining the argument for God’s existence from contingent beings. Click here to read the first...

This is my fifth and last post in a series on the Argument from Consciousness—the basic form of which should by now be familiar. The...

Author: Lukas J. Wilde. Translation is Impossible!!!!! (Or is it?) In a scene of Studio Ghibli’s Whisper of the Heart, Shizuku...

How this attitude came about I won’t get into here, other than to say it was promoted by rumours about J.K Rowling, author of the...

 – WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS –  The furor over J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series in Christian circles is now a cause for...

The message of the first chapter of the Bible is arguably the most influential text the world has known.  It introduces a worldview that...