Jonathan MS Pearce

My Nativity radio debate on Premier Christian Radio is now up. Unfortunately, on the YouTube channel, Matthew Firth, the vicar with whom I was having a spat and who deleted my comments and

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Here, Dana Horton gives us another nugget to think about concerning his ruminations about grace and nontheistic spirituality. Grace is a tough one. It's a bit like "faith" -

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I recently wrote an article about the Matthean prophecy, a prophecy that looks like this (Matt 2): Then after being warned by God in a dream, he left for the regions of Galilee,

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Here is a talk I gave to Chichester Humanists earlier this week on the Nativity - it is a romp through the territory of the infancy narratives. The Q&A session at

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This is from the AHA: The American Humanist Association (AHA) scored a major victory for church-state separation in its seven-year lawsuit over school prayers and religious venues in Greenville, South Carolina. On Tuesday,

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As many of you will know, I recently edited a book by Gunther Laird called The Unnecessary Science, a book that counters the claims of Aristotle, Aquinas and recently Ed Feser on Natural

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Here is one that is slightly different to your usual historical issues with the Nativity accounts. This has a moral dimension. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIYwPyNawaE Don'

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As I explained yesterday (perhaps read it for context), I was linked to a vicar apologist challenge for skeptics to lay out a Nativity contradiction. It went like this: I was linked into

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Just to remind you that I will imminently be giving a talk by Zoom to the Chichester Humanists on the Nativity. Please come along! Register now here and you will be sent the

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I had the dubious pleasure of debating a number of different aspects of the Nativity with a Christian apologist (a Cambridge astrophysics graduate and vicar) whom I had been linked to on Facebook

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I had a debate over whether the Nativity in Luke and Mark was fact or fairytale on Friday night for the Unbelievable? show on Premier Christian radio. I was warned that McGrew might

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