Getting Out of My Head - the Problem of Introspection
Many people today describe that they are 'living inside their own head'. This describes a state of disconnection from reality outside of…
Power Against People: A Christian Critique of the State
The following is an extract from Philip Vander Elst's full paper of the same title. The whole paper can be downloaded from the link on the…
Tree-Surgery for Atheists
Recently, Colin Blakemore tried to argue that the relentless march of science was leaving precious little room in which religion could…
The Faith Based Dawkins
At the start of 2005, online magazine ‘Edge The World Question Centre’ posed the following question to a number of scientific…
Christianity and the Arts
In this seminar, Bruce Little considers the broad range of Christianity and the Arts. “Why, if you are interested in the country…
Can Reading the Papers Make You Go Blind?
A newspaper front page is, in essence, a religious object. Of course that isn't what we think we're buying. But it's what we get. Not with…
Talking about ... Political Leadership
Power corrupts. I have heard that phrase a lot in recent conversations. Some have expressed this view when talking about…
A Clash of Fundamentalisms
Denis Alexander rassesses Richard Dawkins' two part Channel 4 TV programme The Root of All Evil? as a piece of propaganda. Anyone who is…
Dawkins and the Public Understanding of Scientism
Zoologist Dr. Richard Dawkins (1941-) is ‘materialistic, reductionist and overtly anti-religious.’[1] Charles Simonyi, head of…