Anti-theists (also known as hatetheists) are at it again. This time it’s a billboard (image above) that assumes Santa is real but Christmas is just a fairy tale. The billboards are located in Memphis, Nashville, St. Louis, Fort Smith (Arkansas), and Milwaukee. Let me (once again) stress – I have excellent relationships with atheist and
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Finding the Forgotten God – Credible Faith for a Secular Age by Ron Hay Paperback 238 pages Publisher: DayStar Books [Update 15 August 2015: Finding the Forgotten God won a $10,000 Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Mind Body Spirit Literary Award. Congratulations, Ron! Here is an interview of Ron by Philip Matthews. There is now a
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The English astronomer, Sir Fred Hoyle, coined the term “Big Bang” to mock the theory proposed by Belgian priest, astronomer, and professor of physics, Fr Georges Lemaître, that the universe had a beginning. The scientist Hoyle died in 2001 never accepting that the universe had a beginning. Albert Einstein also could not accept the clear
We all know the regular taunt, the catch-cry, to provide evidence for God. Let’s sidestep (the not-unimportant) what is meant by “God” in this taunt, and at least acknowledge that atheists can be prophets highlighting that the god they deny is regularly a caricature, an idol, and not the true God. But the taunt often
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi From time to time I hear people saying such things as being a member of the church is counter-cultural. Well is it…? Really? Always? The impression given is that our culture is self-centered, focused on money,
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Recently I was at a show where “Christian” was synonymous with “someone-who-believes-the-universe-is-thousands-not-billions-of-years-old”. At a dinner party, when someone found out I am a Christian, I was identified with the Flat Earth Society, and it was assumed I was anti-evolution, and anti-science. Somehow the well-financed, American-style, fundamentalist, creationist approach to the Bible and to science and
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If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is there, does it make a sound? If your answer is, “obviously, yes.” stop reading now. Go out and have a coffee. Talk to a friend. Read a book. Or go for a walk. Because the rest of this post will mean nothing to you. If,
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The full text of Pope Francis’s Christmas message, Urbi et Orbi, is here. He departed from his prepared text: And I also invite non-believers to desire peace with that yearning that makes the heart grow: all united, either by prayer or by desire. But all of us, for peace. It has been noted that “Francis’s
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