What Role for Christianity in 21st Century Politics?
Reflections on the 2013 Cambridge University debate about the future of religion in public life.
Do We Know Why We Are All Equal?
The forthright defence of the permissibility of "after-birth abortion" – infanticide – by two Melbourne-based philosophers in…
What Does it Mean to be Human?
Drawing on recent scientific arguments including evolutionary explanations of morality and the latest experiments in neuroscience, as well…
What is Spiritual?
Most people are comfortable with the idea that "spiritual = supernatural". The supernatural is invisible. Does this mean that when we…
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…
State Expectations
UCCF and bethinking.org offer this paper to encourage consideration of these important political topics, but do not endorse any particular…
Why doesn't God answer my prayers?
How we reply to this complex question will very much depend on who is asking, and we need to be ready to admit that we don’t have all…
Understanding Depression
What is depression? Is depression sin or sickness? How can we recognize Clinical Depression? What makes some people more vulnerable to…
Talking about ... Political Leadership
Power corrupts. I have heard that phrase a lot in recent conversations. Some have expressed this view when talking about…