Andy Moore explores this deeply human quest through the lens of Christianity. Despite the great feast of things we could do, we rarely think about what we should do. Many forms of ‘freedom from’ have been won, but we have lost sight of what we want freedom for.
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Brain activity during prayer does not negate God. In fact, philosophers such as Alston, Plantinga and Swinburne argue that authentic religious experiences more generally are evidence for God. And if God does exist, then it comes as no surprise that he would make us such that our brains are active when we encounter him. This kind of data is not a threat to religious belief.
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Christianity makes some big claims but here’s a phrase I want you to remember: criticism without alternative is empty. If someone wants to say your faith is blind or based on ignorance, ask them in turn what they believe in; ask them if they live by a better alternative for making sense of the world. At which point, you can put the alternatives side-by-side and see which beliefs make more sense.
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Theologian Gary Habermas became a Christian believer at a young age, but afterwards experienced a very protracted time of acute doubt. Experiencing and pursuing these questions propelled him into several decades of spending his life in search of what might be called the big questions of life.
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What happened when a secular Jewish comedian-turned-political commentator from NYC sat down with a...
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Jesus claimed to be the truth, to have the truth, to proclaim the truth, and to reveal the truth. Crucially, he also claimed that this truth wouldn’t simply reveal the way things are, but it would transform the way things are.
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The Bible doesn’t ignore the difficult realities around pain and suffering. The objective of Christian faith is not to help you soothe away your troubles, not to pretend all is well when it isn’t, not to dull the pain but rather to see reality and grasp the root of our problem.
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Crucifixion was designed to be the most painful, the most humiliating way to die ever devised in human history.
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The challenge is often framed in this way: if a loving and powerful God exists, He would not allow evil to exist; evil does exist, therefore, there must be no God
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We can barely go for a couple of months without hearing of a new disaster. How do we make sense of natural disasters and God?
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In a world where we have weaponised emotions, where everything I am saying to you is motivated by love and anything you’re saying against me must only be explicable by hatred, Michael Ramsden argues there is but one deterrent and that it is to be found in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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In her latest book, ‘Am I Just My Brain?, neuroscientist and OCCA Fellow Sharon Dirckx lays out...
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