This week I have been writing on the “minimal facts” of the Resurrection for CVM. This approach to the evidence looks at the broadly accepted historical facts (attested to by Christian and sceptic scholars alike) and asks, ‘What is the simplest explanation for them?’ The Apostle Paul hung his apologetic – his reasons for – the Christian faith on the …
How To Deal With Pride
Pride from Desiring God on Vimeo. The Bible’s answer to our fallen self obsession is a superior satisfaction in God where he becomes our soul possession and we become his treasured possession for all eternity.
Truth Under Fire
On the 26th October the Union Flag was lowered at Camp Bastion. The next day the last of the British troops left Helmand Province. Over the following days and weeks many newspaper articles, television documentaries, and pub conversations assessed the overall value of the British military campaign in Afghanistan. “What did we achieve?” “Was it worth the cost?” “Will our efforts …
Is Britain A Religious Country?
Where were you when you first experienced elation? I have vague, early-childhood memories of blissful birthdays with cakes shaped as Subbuteo pitches and parties at water parks. In my teenage years I hit new heights kayaking down French alpine rivers, dodging rocks and trees, mostly the right way up, to be rewarded with pure adulation coursing through my veins at …
Change: Avoiding ‘Chronological Snobbery’
New is cool. At least, this is what the advertisers would have us believe. If you don’t have the latest thing then you’re not ‘with the times’. And do you know what? So often the advertisers are right. My current phone is a better version of my old phone. It has a longer battery life and a crisper display. In …
Double Take
“Content plus context equals meaning.” Whilst I may have forgotten much about ‘Prohibition America’ from my ‘A’ Level History class, these words still rattle around my mind. This maxim (another word I learnt in that class) of course rings true not just for a history essay, but for nearly everything in life. For example, my first trip to the United …
The Gig Delusion by Andy Kind
I had been up for 17 hours but my day was only yet half-way through. The first of my flights was over. It’s fascinating how much I can get done with 10 hours of seclusion, 35,000 ft up and without distraction. I chose to watch the Iron Man trilogy in one go. Now I was boarding my second flight. Not …
On Homeland and the Moral Argument
I recently started watching Homeland. I think it was the combination of Damian Lewis donning US military uniform again as well as the award nominations that provoked my curiosity. And wow. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t what I found myself watching. Homeland is brutal. Sure, there’s the violence and the sex etc. but it was …
On Chris Evans’ Ferrari Collection and the Existence of the Universe
Not so long ago it was popular to believe that the universe simply always existed. Carl Sagan famously stated that, “The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.” But then along came a chap by the name of Georges Lemaître – working with ideas from one Albert Einstein – who said that actually, it looks …