The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ – a review
A review of Philip Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
The Case for God – a review
Karen Armstrong was a Roman Catholic nun for seven years before she found she could no longer believe Catholic doctrines. She left her…
Fear of Knowledge – a review
Creating a work of philosophy that is both deeply rich in meaning and accessible to a non-philosophically-trained audience is a daunting…
Carl Sagan: The Skeptic's Sceptic
This extended review provides some excellent responses to arguments that Sagan used and which keep cropping up today.
Recent Perspectives on the Reliability of the Gospels
The usual attempts to defend the historical reliability of the New Testament are often fairly general in nature. These arguments are…
How could fallible men produce an infallible Bible?
One of the most frequent arguments leveled against the infallibility of the Bible is based upon the fact that the Bible was written by…
Connecting with the Disconnected
A review of Nick Barham's Disconnected: Why our kids are turning their backs on everything we thought we knew.
The Jesus Seminar
The Jesus Seminar claims that some of the words of Jesus recorded in the Gospels were actually said by him but others were invented by the…
'The Da Vinci Code': a novel
A New Testament scholar reviews Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.