Are You Ready to Give an Answer?
Four implications of 1 Peter 3:15 that will help you stand up and speak out about Jesus.
What sort of God would send good people to hell?
Responding to the question of whether the existence of Hell means that God cannot be a God of love.
How could a loving God possibly allow so much suffering?
Examining the problem of suffering first as an intellectual question and then as an emotional and visceral issue.
Who would base their lives on a brutal book of fairy stories?
Considering the question of whether belief in God lacks the evidence to support it - and why arguments on their own are not enough.
How could any thinking person choose God over science?
Are God and science necessarily in competition? Does science fit better with Christian belief or with atheism?
Why are Christians so hypocritical & judgmental?
Why are Christians so hypocritical, nasty & judgmental? A response to one of the most common objections to Christianity.
New Atheism, New Apologetics
How Christian apologetics has used science in its response to the claims of the New Atheists. Boyle Lecture 2014.
Cruel and Vindictive: How can God send good people to hell?
This talk considers the difficult issue of Hell - what it is and how a loving God can send anyone there.
Good for you but not for me: was Jesus just a moral teacher?
This talk explains why the claim that Jesus was no more than a moral teacher doesn't account for the evidence about him.