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When British actor, comedian, gay activist and atheist Stephen Fry was recently asked on the Irish TV network RTE what he would say to God if he arrived at the pearly gates and discovered that it [...]

Hell is a subject that Christians do not like to talk about. However, there is a lot of plain-speaking about hell in the Bible, and so it seems to me that occasionally there should be a bit of [...]

The Apostle John states in his first letter in the Bible that, on the first Christmas Day, Jesus Christ “appeared” among us. This is an unusual way of speaking about a person’s birth. Imagine a [...]

In mid-February, referring to the havoc caused by excessive winter rainfall and widespread flooding across England,2 The Economist (UK) commented: “‘BIBLICAL’—that is how David Cameron3 described [...]

When I was a boy I used to catch bees in my handkerchief. Naturally, I was afraid to catch them in my bare hand because of their stings. With the cloth spread over my palm, I would creep up on a [...]

In contemporary culture truth decay is a massive problem. That idea that there is fixed, absolute truth which applies to us all is rejected by most people. In terms of what we can know, black and [...]

If you saw Episode Three of the series “The Bible and History” on SBS Television last Friday evening, you will have seen the conservative British MP, Ann Widdecombe, a committed Christian, ask a [...]

Does heaven exist? If it does, what it is like and how can we get there? Even among Christians, there seems to be uncertainty about the answers to these questions. And a general lack of biblical [...]

Over the centuries Christians have used various terms to express their conviction that the Bible is the word of God and is therefore the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Below [...]

I left school and went to my first job and then to University as, I think, a Deist. I believed it was quite obvious that there was a God, because it was self-evidently true that there could not [...]