Flipping the meaning of Lent
Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day? The consumerist flip.
Young Nation
Why does the desire to be young again continually re-appear in contemporary culture? What is a Christian response?
Power Against People: A Christian Critique of the State
The following is an extract from Philip Vander Elst's full paper of the same title. The whole paper can be downloaded from the link on the…
The Myth of Secular Neutrality
Alex Bunn questions the assumption that ‘faith equals bias’. Although his article is based around his own specialty of…
Why Should Anyone Believe Anything At All?
In a talk given at The Veritas Forum at the University of California, Santa Barbara in February 1998, Dr James Sire considers the role of…
Why doesn't God answer my prayers?
How we reply to this complex question will very much depend on who is asking, and we need to be ready to admit that we don’t have all…
Can Reading the Papers Make You Go Blind?
A newspaper front page is, in essence, a religious object. Of course that isn't what we think we're buying. But it's what we get. Not with…
Epistemology - What is it to Know?
This three part seminar gives an historical overview of the various schools of thought on the subject epistemology - how we can know…
Talking about ... Political Leadership
Power corrupts. I have heard that phrase a lot in recent conversations. Some have expressed this view when talking about…