How could a loving God possibly allow so much suffering?
Examining the problem of suffering first as an intellectual question and then as an emotional and visceral issue.
Further links: Crucifixion: con trick to start a religion?
Links to further resources to follow up on the bethinking booklet on the Crucifixion of Jesus - was it just a con trick?
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.
How could any thinking person choose God over science?
Are God and science necessarily in competition? Does science fit better with Christian belief or with atheism?
Why are Christians so hypocritical & judgmental?
Why are Christians so hypocritical, nasty & judgmental? A response to one of the most common objections to Christianity.
God and Liberty
When Benjamin Franklin introduced his grandson to Voltaire shortly before the latter's death in 1778, that great opponent of the Catholic…
Are we sinners?
What does human society tell us about human nature? Are we essentially good or bad?
New Atheism, New Apologetics
How Christian apologetics has used science in its response to the claims of the New Atheists. Boyle Lecture 2014.
Cruel and Vindictive: How can God send good people to hell?
This talk considers the difficult issue of Hell - what it is and how a loving God can send anyone there.