For the past two weeks I’ve explored whether the history and philosophy of science are at war with belief in God. The final bastion in which the conflict hypothesis has taken shelter is admittedly the most formidable for the Christian—the results of science. ATHEISM 2.0: The God Hypothesis is Unnecessary Before the dawn of modern […]

THE JOURNEY: Encountering Suffering At only 9 years of age my life was thrown into chaos. Growing up in the West you’re inculcated with a sense of immortality. We eschew pain and pursue pleasure at all costs. That is, until, this naïve perspective is devastated by a painful collision with reality. Here’s a thumbnail of […]

Christians cannot ignore the ethical challenges posed to us by culture. At this moment in the West broadly, and in Australia in particular, the question of same-sex relationships stands at the forefront of public debate. The tide of moral revision on this issue in the last generation seems to crash against the traditional Christian teaching […]

ARRIVING HOME: Jesus Finds Me It’s time for the final leg of my journey to make sense of suffering—the homecoming. If other worldviews can’t answer suffering meaningfully, and if our expectations and experience of suffering don’t disprove but rather point towards God’s existence, can a wounded traveller have faith in a loving God? Imagine this […]

“Christians over the centuries have dug such deep wells theologically, philosophically, and pastorally than I could ever hope to exhaust in speaking to suffering. What I do hope is that by offering you a taste of these wells, you may be awakened to something of the healing and hope that can be found in the cross […]

Belief is fundamental to being human. We cannot function without holding basic beliefs like the belief that I’m currently writing this blog and not plugged into the matrix. Moving from mere function to framework, however, our core identity is shaped by a deeper set of beliefs concerning our origins, meaning, morality, and destiny. Who you […]

Following on from our last blog, the history of science seems to present a deep concord between the rise of science and belief in God. Perhaps, however, this is just coincidence. Maybe God and science are at war in a different arena—the philosophy of science. After all, surely the assumptions enabling the scientist to engage […]

Forget the renaissance art or the hipster images of Jesus you have seen floating around the web. The truth is that Jesus probably wouldn’t make the cover of Men’s Fitness or onto the shoot of a Ralph Lauren advertising campaign. Roughly 700 years before Jesus was born the Hebrew prophet Isaiah predicted that Jesus would look like […]

Any Seinfeld fans out there?  I recognize I may have just halved my already small readership by appealing to a sitcom from the last century … but too bad!  Seinfeld is probably my favourite show ever aired on TV.  The humour usually hinges on irony, exposing some disconnect between what one says and what one […]