COVID-19 and the Problem of Evil
As Covid-19 spreads around the planet, religious people everywhere will be asking themselves the same question. If the universe is...
A Spiritual View of Wealth and Poverty
A recent fluff piece in my local paper carried the headline: Newest Millionaires Say 16 Million Dollar Win Has Changed Their Lives. No one,...
A Christian Response to Christchurch, II: The Perpetrator
Part I | Part III In this trilogy of articles I am highlighting the key features of an appropriate Christian response to the shooting in...
Hell
It is often suggested that the Christian doctrine of Hell is morally unconscionable. Understanding this doctrine to be that the nonbeliever...
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...