I’ve written a little recently and shared some videos talking about how we engage with Muslims, how we get to know and love them as neighbours. I’ve discovered that nothing seems to get people’s ire as the suggestion that we should get to know and love Muslims. The assumption seems to be that I’m naive… Continue reading If the problem is Islam then the answer is … Love and get to know your Muslim neighbours
Category: Apologetics
How does Jesus answer the problem of suffering?
Luke 13 begins famously with Jesus being asked about a tragic atrocity. Pilate had not only slaughtered some Galileans but had also had their blood mixed in with their sacrifices, thus contaminating the altar and making the sacrifices ineffective. The implied question that Jesus answers is as to whether the victims had been particularly guilty… Continue reading How does Jesus answer the problem of suffering?
How do we make the case against Assisted Dying to those who don’t share our Christian worldview
One of the things that comes up in my conversations with other Christians about beginning and end of life ethics is the difficulty of engaging with people who don’t share our worldview. We know that we are made in God’s image and so share equal dignity. We know that God is sovereign, is life and … Continue reading How do we make the case against Assisted Dying to those who don’t share our Christian worldview
Two ways to live, two stories to live by
The tagline of this website is “What we believe affects how we live.”. A few years ago, a popular Gospel method was based on the idea that there are two ways to live. If both points are true then we might say that there is also two ways to believe. In fact, through history we… Continue reading Two ways to live, two stories to live by
Take them to Jesus and tell them stories
Luke begins his Gospel be telling Theophilus that his purpose is “So that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught” What does he do next? Well, in our contemporary context, we would expect someone with that intent to begin to teach Theophilus some apologetics, to help him think systematically through… Continue reading Take them to Jesus and tell them stories
Do we need to believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus for salvation (a response to NT Wright)?
NT Wright has recently raised the question as to whether it is necessary to believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus. It’s in relation to his friend Marcus Borg, a more liberal scholar. Wright’s assessment is that Borg was a muddled Christian, he didn’t think the body mattered and had rejected a more dogmatic form… Continue reading Do we need to believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus for salvation (a response to NT Wright)?
Do we believe in the same God?
I had previously written about the question of whether Muslims and Christians worship the same God. Recently I picked up on the same type of question through for different reasons, asking whether Evangelicals and Roman Catholics believe in the same God. Well when I started to think about that question, I was already thinking that… Continue reading Do we believe in the same God?
“I have seen the Lord” What difference does Easter make? (John 20)
On Friday the tomb was closed and sealed. We left the disciples deserted, despairing, denying, and doubting. Then came the dawn of that Sunday morning . Some women arrive at the tomb and see angels before heading off to tell the other disciples back at Bethany. On the way, they meet Jesus. Mary Magdalene seems… Continue reading “I have seen the Lord” What difference does Easter make? (John 20)
What did Luke want us to be certain about?
Our church have started working through Luke’s Gospel. Chris who was preaching on the first bit of Luke 1 noted that we can be so caught up in the apologetic type questions about eye witnesses and reliability that we forger to read the Bible itself. This is a helpful corrective to how we tend to… Continue reading What did Luke want us to be certain about?
Wicked and the Gospel
The other day I shared my thoughts on a review of the new film adaption of the stage musical “Wicked”. I thought that the review missed the mark in terms of its cultural analysis. I thought it would be worth following up by sharing how I would engage with the story from a Gospel perspective.… Continue reading Wicked and the Gospel
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