This great quote came from Reddit where a commenter was reacting to my piece on the Carroll/Novella vs Alexander/Moody debate. It's spot on: It's always a false dichotomy with these guys. Either the materialist explanation of consciousness has to describe absolutely everything in its entirety dow
Here is an email on the back channels from fellow SINner David, who runs a great blog at SIN at Avant Garde. The context is with regard to an article about how philosophy
I really enjoyed watching the debate that is the talk of the town just now. Eben Alecxander, author of bestseller Proof of Heaven with team mate Ray Moody were arguing that death is not final, that there is an afterlife.
Finally, it is here. Well, I am awaiting a proof copy. But the zeroes and ones are winging themselves about over at Kobo, Nook, Kindle and iTunes such that the anthology of deconversion accounts named Beyond An Absence of Faith: Stories About the Loss of Faith And the Discovery of Self will be avail
Listening to the Reasonable Doubts criticism of the dreadful sounding film God's Not Dead, Justin Schieber referred to a point made by Wes Morriston.
Plenty of brain-sapping journals clutter the desks of Westminster, offering the patient reader an intellectual transfusion of information, analysis, insight and yes, just occasionally, complete guff. But until the last few weeks I had never read the Church Times.
The Holy Trinity has had a problematic history, partly evidenced by point of fact that theologians still don't agree on how it works, and partly seen from its ex post facto evolution, shoehorned into the scant evidence of the biblical texts. From Ignatius of Antioch onwards we see development of th
This, from the Telegraph: Headmaster sacked from Catholic school over marriage split A top Catholic school retracted its job offer to a new headteacher after governors learnt the chosen candidate had split up
Some of you may have heard news reports like this one from Yahoo News about a church being 'knocked down by the Communists'. This is how they report it:
Gregg Caruso, an author on free will, is now editor-in-chief of a nascent open source journal which is well worth perusing: Science, Religion & Culture. It's aims are as follows:
Causality. It is a funny thing. Or not so funny. A few years back, I took my class, as a teacher, on a class trip to the Historic Dockyard in the naval city of Portsmouth, UK. My school is some 45 minutes walk and a short ferry ride from there. With the cost of coaches, it is important to be able
Had to add this one, as it is a point I often make: