Transformational Suffering and The Karate Kid
How can we be transformed through suffering? Surprisingly, the eighties cult film The Karate Kid offers some insights. If you're unfamiliar…
Nothing But a Pack of Neurons?
In this paper, Stuart Judge considers whether discoveries in neuroscience that correlate our mental activity with our brain activity…
Richard Dawkins and the Man Delusion
This month England has been taken by storm. Not rain – but riots. Unlike the weather, it came without warning and has left the nation…
Knight and Day
What do we do when opportunities come our way? Do we sit back and watch them pass us by, or do we seize the day and chase our dreams? It is…
Never Let Me Go
Perhaps a society truly becomes lost when it doesn't know how lost it is. This is the eerie suggestion put forward by Never Let Me Go,…
The Truth About A Common Word – a review
This small book gives us a well-researched critique of the Common Word letter sent by 138 Muslim leaders to the Christian church. It then…
The Writing on the Wall
In The Writing on the Wall, Maggi Dawn sets about doing what John Stott called "double listening" – "it means that we’re called…
Lady Gaga
I'm not sure exactly what makes someone a phenomenon, but anyone who has managed to win 62 music awards in two years and has produced a…
Peter Pan Theology
Postmodern liberalism may sound liberating and enticing to its adherents, but it may be no more than a 21st century fairy tale for the…