by Stuart | 28 Apr 2016 | Blog
Imagine for a moment freely handing your credit card over to a friend and giving him free reign to spend as much as he wants. Your friend might consider you a kind person, and perhaps you would feel good for a moment about extending kindness to a friend. But you would...
by Stuart | 21 Apr 2016 | Blog
Erik “Ordinary Pastor” Raymond recently published a blog post titled “Can Your Theology Handle the book of Lamentations?” In it, he argues that far too many professing Christians “ignore this God who judges” because “it is much easier for him to be, well, nice.” There...
by Stuart | 7 Apr 2016 | Blog
In an opinion piece1 published on the New York Times website, dated 26 March 2016—the day before Easter Sunday—William Irwin, professor of Philosophy at King’s College, contends that certainty about the existence of God is impossible. Instead of certainty, Irwin...
by Stuart | 23 Mar 2016 | Blog
One of the most important distinctives of true Christianity is repentance. William Plumer (1759–1850) once wrote that “repentance belongs exclusively to the religion of sinners. It has no place in the exercises of unfallen creatures…. The wickedness of the human heart...
by Stuart | 18 Nov 2015 | Blog
The world has been obsessed with Paris in recent days. Over the weekend, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for three co-ordinated attacks in the French capital, which killed (at the time of writing) around 130 people. Many more were injured, some critically,...
by Stuart | 10 Nov 2015 | Blog
Phil Zuckerman is professor of secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. An avowed atheist, he is known for openly criticising Christianity on his blog. He recently spoke at an event at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he was asked to...
