Gay, No Gay, Ex Gay Bus Campaigns

Listening again to the tortuous BBC Radio 4 Sunday program where during the last item a lively discussion took place about the Gay / Ex Gay bus campaigns. As seems the norm these days Free Speech only seems to work one way – in opposition to Christianity. I can do no better than point you to Archbishop Cranmer for [...]

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An Introduction to Presuppositional Apologetics

Geoff Thomas kindly forwarded ‘An Introduction to Presuppositional Apologetics’ by Ian Clary. It doesn’t go into an enormous amount of detail but is well worth a read to get a taste for the Presuppositional method. After a brief introduction Clary outlines The Task of Apologetics as fourfold going on to briefly summarise the three schools of thought, Evidential, Classical [...]

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Rally for Reason

Taking a look at the Atheist Rally for Reason website makes one wonder if they really know what they are doing. The reason (there’s that word) I say this is because there are so many Christian books that encourage or use reason, so many in fact, that it might be profitable to list them here. [...]

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Hajj – journey to the heart of Islam

Yesterday I went to the British Museum to view ‘Hajj – journey to the heart of Islam’. Frankly, expectations were mixed not really knowing what to expect. Let’s just get a couple of criticisms of the exhibition out-of-the-way – it would have greatly enhanced the exhibition to have had a guide. This might just have been peculiar to [...]

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An Emerging Truth is No Truth at all

There are many problems with it, but here’s another problem with redefining marriage – as Cardinal O’Brien has rightly commented it redefines reality. Here’s why. We need a standard of truth to define reality, without it we are left to wallow in a sea of relativism. The book title by Greg Koukl (Stand to Reason) & Francis Beckwith ’Relativism:Feet [...]

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Redefinition of Marriage

Marriage is set to be redefined by the Coalition Government – particularly PM David Cameron. No doubt Mr Clegg will be happy with the liberalisation of pretty much anything he can get away with. What is marriage? Whose idea is it? Where did it come from? What is Marriage? We are told very early on in the Bible exactly what [...]

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The Aftermath of Abortion

The Pro Choice Abortion ideology present the only real difficulty about having an abortion is the hoops a woman has to jump through in order to get one. But there is a real ongoing cost to taking the decision to ‘terminate’ the child. To read about the journey one woman has made and is making [...]

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Abortion (Gender Choice) Illegal

I’m struck by how absurd  morality can be in our country. Abortion is legal up to 24 weeks – bizarrely – and any number of reasons may be given to abort other than gender choice. The Daily Telegraph last week uncovered, through its investigative journalism, abortions taking place purely over the preferred gender of the [...]

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God Is Not Great: Christopher Hitchens

Now I have a Kindle it’s so easy to download and buy stuff – that’s good and bad. It’s good, for example because amongst other things I bought ‘God is not Great‘ for £0.99p. It’s bad because no matter what the format I still have to find time to read the stuff. A window of opportunity opened [...]

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“Britons” streaming into Somalia to train for jihad – Jihad Watch

“Britons” streaming into Somalia to train for jihad – Jihad Watch.

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Christopher Hitchens

I was very saddened to hear of the death of Christopher Hitchens. His atheism was well documented, being one of the New Atheistic ’Four Horsemen’ in contrast to his brother Peter. I had only heard a couple of his debates and read some of his articles but he did strike me as a courteous yet fierce opponent. He wiped the floor in [...]

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Pray for Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani

There is an email going round urging Christians to pray for Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani. Much of the email follows. Please find a moment to pray for this man. Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani never practiced the Muslim faith and converted to Christianity at age 19, becoming a pastor later. But the courts say that since his mother [...]

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Dawkins is Disgusted

Maybe a little late with this, but there’s a really excellent post ‘Dawkins is Disgusted‘ at Analogical Thoughts. Thanks for the Heads Up to Jim over at The Domain for Truth. Here’s a taster: in The God Delusion he rejected and ridiculed the notion that there are moral absolutes. But if there are no moral [...]

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Ten years on – Jihad is not, and was not new

Over the last few years the concept of Jihad has regularly been the subject of discussion – especially since the terrible events of 9/11. Today, we do remember those events. To be honest I can’t really remember the word being used before 9/11 but that’s my ignorance and not a reflection of the facts. Islamic [...]

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Islam – Book Review

I seem to have posted rather a lot on Islam of late. This wasn’t really intentional it’s just that circumstances – admittedly an existing interest – seemed to dictate. This was partly due to the programs aired by the BBC and I still have to post on aspects of these. The programs were a little [...]

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