We should in humility and joyfulness acknowledge that the supernatural and divine reality we all worship in some form or other transcends all our particular categories of thought and imagining, and that because the divine — however named, however apprehended or conceived — is infinite and we are forever finite, we shall never comprehend the Read more
It’s depressing to see Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant minds in his field, trying to speak as an expert on things he sadly seems to know rather less about than many averagely intelligent Christians. Of course there are people who think of “heaven” as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to Read more
Led by two academics at Oxford University, the £1.9 million study found that human thought processes were “rooted” to religious concepts. But people living in cities in highly developed countries were less likely to hold religious beliefs than those living a more rural way of life, the researchers found. The project involved 57 academics in Read more
A non-believing Australian Prime Minister has made God the winner in the Australian budget. School chaplains at 1,000 extra schools will receive A$222 million more. The significant increase in funding comes despite a High Court challenge to the programme on constitutional grounds and speculation prior to the budget that the future of the school chaplaincy programme was Read more
A new global survey shows that 51 percent of people in the world believe in God. Only 18 percent don’t and 17 percent are undecided. More than 18,000 people participated in the London-based poll in 23 countries conducted by global research company, Ipsos Social Research Institute. The Ipsos/Reuters poll also found that 51 percent believe Read more
John Lennox, who calls himself a Christian apologist, recently made a public speaking tour through New Zealand. In a number of his lectures he addressed the question many have been asking themselves, “Where was God at 9 minutes to 1?” Lennox was appalled at some of the answers people come up with. “I have no simplistic answers and Read more
A poll conducted after the earthquake in Japan shows that most Americans, except Evangelicals, reject the idea that natural disasters are divine punishment, a test of faith or some other sign from God. The poll found that a majority (56%) of Americans believe God is in control of the earth, but the idea of God Read more