apologetics
60-second adventures in religion
I can’t remember who told me about these, but they’re fab. The Open University Religious Studies is obviously plugging its wares – but fair enough.
18th October 2012
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Richard Dawkins
apologetics
The Loser Letters: impish wit and a satirical dissection of atheism
Mary Eberstadt has a wonderful turn of phrase and an impish wit, which are used to devastating effect in her 2010 book The Loser Letters. She
13th September 2012
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20th Century
Dawkins, ‘Pragmamorphism’ and the scientific vandalism of executing Saddam
When a fellow-scientist brands Richard Dawkins naïve you sit up and notice. But that’s exactly what Emanuel Derman has done. I didn’t know anything about Derman
21st July 2011
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Richard Dawkins’ Faith-Free School – spot the inconsistency…
The UK’s new Coalition government has recently announced plans to allow for so-called Free Schools. This means that charities and faith groups will be allowed
25th June 2010
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All Souls Langham Place
Rage, God and Brahms’ 4th Symphony
It’s been a bit of an experiment – but as part of our contribution to Passion 4 Life events at All Souls, 2 friends (pianists
3rd March 2010
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This time, I’m with Dawkins
One of the RSS feeds I follow is from a provocative little site called irReligion.org – and they never fail to come up with the
12th October 2009
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Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 13 (October 2009)
Sacred Treasure A friend of mine, who works running tours in Turkey, has set up this wonderful photo & graphic resource tracing Paul’s ministry in
1st October 2009
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UK’s 1st Atheist camp begins: a bastion of rigourous thinking?
Well, having had a well-plugged launch a few weeks back, the Camp Quest atheist camp has started. They’re having a ball, it seems. Well of
29th July 2009
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St Augustine on Darwin’s ‘Origin of the Species’? Read on…
Alister McGrath is at his best (IMHO) when engaging with debates of science and religion. After all, he’s a scholar of both. And he’s got
15th May 2009
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A N Wilson changes his Easter tune!
I was a green and callow undergraduate in 1992 – present at a debate between A N Wilson (who’d recently produced his iconoclastic hatchet job,
13th April 2009
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Resurrection Bullets – a few thoughts for Easter 09
To coincide with EA’s Slipstream co-ordinated blogathon for Easter, here are a few random bullets on Jesus’ Resurrection. And because i feel in the mood
9th April 2009
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ELF08 – The Dawkins-Lennox Debate Revisited
Once again, John Lennox has been present at the ELF – and he has been talking about (and showing a video of) the debate he
26th May 2008
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