Are we sinners?
What does human society tell us about human nature? Are we essentially good or bad?
Old Testament Morality
Richard Dawkins, Rabbi Josh Levy and Chris Sinkinson join Justin Brierley to discuss the morality of the Old Testament.
Do We Know Why We Are All Equal?
The forthright defence of the permissibility of "after-birth abortion" – infanticide – by two Melbourne-based philosophers in…
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…
Getting Out of My Head - the Problem of Introspection
Many people today describe that they are 'living inside their own head'. This describes a state of disconnection from reality outside of…
What Does it Mean to be Human?
Drawing on recent scientific arguments including evolutionary explanations of morality and the latest experiments in neuroscience, as well…
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…
Does Religion Cause War?
As the situation in Gaza becomes worse by the day, the apologetic challenge this weekend is most likely to centre on the role of religion…
The Christian Life - Grace and Identity
How are we to think about our lives? The most basic thing we can say about our human life is that God created us to be like Himself –…