Approaching Academic Life as a Christian
Advice for Christians in academic life and the workplace.
Further links: Angels, wise men, and a baby
Links to further resources to follow up on the bethinking booklet which asks why the events of the first Christmas show us what God is like.
Who would base their lives on a brutal book of fairy stories?
Considering the question of whether belief in God lacks the evidence to support it - and why arguments on their own are not enough.
Good for you but not for me: was Jesus just a moral teacher?
This talk explains why the claim that Jesus was no more than a moral teacher doesn't account for the evidence about him.
Ancient and Unreliable: Isn't the Bible just a book of myths?
Adrian Holloway tackles the question of whether we can trust what we read in the New Testament or should dismiss it as unsubstantiated myth.
Did the Gospel Writers Spin Their Accounts of Jesus?
Did the early Christian communities apply Jesus's teaching to the problems they faced or alter the facts to fit their agendas?
The Main Witnesses in the Gospels
In this video, Richard Bauckham considers whether we can know who were the main witnesses behind the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life.
Real People in the Gospels
The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.
Real Places in the Gospels
The way the Gospel accounts use correct place names shows that they were based on reliable information from first hand testimony.