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A bright new morning
Christianity is at its core a supernatural religion. At the very outset of Christianity’s sacred text, the Bible, we read of an omnipotent God who created the universe out of nothing in six days. Accounts of the miraculous are spattered throughout the Bible: Moses and...
“Redeeming” the F-word
Profanity. The mere idea stands in opposition to biblical Christianity. Paul urged the Ephesians, “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths” (Ephesians 4:29). Again, “Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking” (5:4). It seems obvious:...
Friendly atheism
When Christians today think of atheism, the figure that perhaps most frequently comes to mind is Richard Dawkins. Dawkins, of course, is about as militant an atheist as you are likely to find. He is so militant, in fact, that there are actually atheists who question...
The vilest offender
In a previous post, I reviewed a book by Roy Ratcliff titled Dark Journey, Deep Grace, which is the account of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s journey to faith. As I said in that post, I read the book in the space of a few hours. I was enthralled to read how God...
Paedophiles are people too
There is a picture that has been doing the rounds recently that portrays seven skeletons, captioned in turn with the following ascriptions: black, white, gay, straight, religious, atheist and you. The point of the picture is that, underneath it all, we’re really the...
The irony of gay activism
In late 2008, a California ballot proposition, known as Proposition 8, was passed in the November 2008 state elections. Passed by 52% of Californian voters, the proposition sought to identify marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The proposition was...