Truth is important. None of us want to believe things that are untrue. I certainly don’t. So, you might wonder what I say when I’m asked why I am a Christian. When this […]
Indigenous Australians can teach us a thing or two. They have the custom of regularly returning to country to reaffirm their identity and their connection with place. They do this by retelling the […]
The leading atheistic philosopher in the early twentieth century, Bertrand Russell, was once asked what he would say to God by way of explanation when asked why he didn’t believe in him. His reply […]
I am continually appalled at my level of ignorance and fearful of the potholes it provides for me to fall into. And yet, there is a shy conviction within me that enables me […]
The banishment of theology from intellectual debate in our universities has been an impoverishment. It has resulted in science locking itself into an empiricist prison, for it will only allow investigations into ‘how’ […]
“Down with the Christian church! A plague on its legalism and its bullying throughout history. And ‘hurrah’ for Voltaire, that Enlightenment literary wit who tweaked the tail of the Roman Catholic Church, and […]