Tag: God

20 years of blogging

Reflections on 20 years of blogging about God and life. Why do I do it? Who cares? Does it matter?

God and me

I’m now 80 years old and this blog is about to turn 20. It seemed a good time to summarise how my beliefs have changed over those years.

Could we be living in a computer simulation?

How do we know the world we experience is real? Maybe life is just a dream? Or maybe we’re all characters in a computer simulation.

“It’s no secret that our world is in darkness tonight”

There’s a lot of darkness in the world this Christmas, but Jesus came to dispel darkness …. and he calls us to do the same.

Believable and unbelievable gods

If we think there must be a God, for whatever reason, where do we go from there? Which version of God is most believable?

What should we make of the Old Testament?

What should we make of the Old Testament? Is it worth reading?

Is there a God? 10 helpful books

Ten books that I have found extremely helpful and sometimes ground-breaking, in thinking about the existence of God.

The day God saved my life …. perhaps

I don’t really expect God to speak to me. But one day he did, and it may have saved my life!

Death, pain & predation

A biochemist considers why predation and death are an inevitable part of the world we live in.

Did God create a wasteful universe?

The universe seems way larger than it needs to be to provide a place for us humans. Is that an argument against creation by God? What does science say?