The Bible says Jesus grew up in Nazareth, but until recently the evidence for this was scant and disputed by some. But now there is clear evidence of a small agricultural village or town in the first century.
thoughtful ideas on life's big questions
February 16th, 2021
The Bible says Jesus grew up in Nazareth, but until recently the evidence for this was scant and disputed by some. But now there is clear evidence of a small agricultural village or town in the first century.
February 5th, 2021
Some things in life seem impossible any way we look at them. That makes them tantalising to consider. This post: does the idea of eternal life make any sense? And would it become boring after a while? An angel longs to escape eternal life In Wim Wenders classic film Wings of Desire (the original German […]
January 12th, 2021
How do I balance 12 reasons to believe in God and 6 reasons to disbelieve? I think the theistic arguments are stronger and more fundamental. There are good reasons to believe!
January 7th, 2021
Sherlock Holmes said: “when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” How does this apply to the universe?
December 23rd, 2020
Christmas is about a baby. A baby who was somehow also God. But can that idea make sense? How can we understand it?
December 15th, 2020
These are fertile days for conspiracy theories. Who believes them and why? Are christians more prone to believe them?
November 28th, 2020
We all want a good life. We want to flourish. We want to be free to pursue our own choices. But what does it take?
November 8th, 2020
Christians are supposed to be following Jesus, but do their lives match up to his teachings?
September 25th, 2020
Cosmologist Luke Barnes, an expert on the scientific evidence for the fine-tuning of the universe, has published an argument for the existence of God.
September 6th, 2020
How do we explain the universe? Are there reasons to believe God made it, or it appeared out of nothing? Or should we give up on finding an explanation and say it just is (a “brute fact”)?
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