Nativity!
Teachers lurk anxiously behind tinsel-covered curtains; excited children wait for their big moment; and nervous parents hope that their…
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…
The Zeitgeist Movie
Why should we consider the stories of Osiris, Dionysus, Adonis and Attis as myth, yet think Jesus of Nazareth is history? The answer is…
Sources: A Spectator's Guide to Jesus
Dr John Dickson describes the key sources for our knowledge of the life of Jesus, assessing them from the perspective of an historian.
Lifeblood
A review of the Manic Street Preachers' Lifeblood album.
'The Da Vinci Code': a novel
A New Testament scholar reviews Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.
Environmentalism: A Religion Without a Founder
Climate change is one of the key issues of our time. But what should we make of the fervour of the environmental movement?
How (Not) To Be Secular - a review
This helpful summary of philosopher Charles Taylor's work examines what it means to live in a secular age.
Why Should I Believe Christianity? - a review
James N Anderson provides a real, concrete analysis of the reasons Christianity makes most sense of the world.