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What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about.
Christianity is a religion of continuity and discontinuity as well. It's about what stays the same and what changes in the twinkling of an eye.... →
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across... →
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending... →
Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is, in truth, not the kind that... →
I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which is a series of propositions. But it is... →
If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er, actuality... →
It's true that when Christianity is socially powerful, faith can look from the outside as if it is mainly a matter of membership, of... →
Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking... →
There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new... →
You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the... →
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