Ten Things You Need to Know About the Creation-Evolution Debate 2

What does Easter mean to you?

We asked people one simple question: what does Easter mean to you? We filmed outside Above Bar Church, Southampton, in April 2011. Most interviewees are from the church, and some were passers-by. The video also includes Steve Clifford from Evangelical Alliance, who was visiting the church that morning.

This was filmed in association [...]

Apologetics questions

The final session of a six-week series on apologetics at Above Bar Church, Southampton. This session was responding to questions submitted by people on the course. There are three main areas: some principles for apologetics, responses to the charge that Christianity borrowed central ideas from first-century Mithraism, and why it’s reasonable to believe the [...]

Suffering

The fifth session of a six-week series on apologetics at Above Bar Church, Southampton. May 2010.

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What about other religions?

The fourth session of a six-week series on apologetics at Above Bar Church, Southampton. May 2010.

A4. What about other religions? View more webinars from Tony Watkins.

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Is religion evil?

The third in the series on apologetics at Above Bar Church, Southampton. This one considers the charge that, in the words of Richard Dawkins, ‘religion is one of the world’s great evils’. The audio is not yet synchronised to the slides.

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Introduction to Apologetics

At Above Bar Church, Southampton, we’re doing something a little different for the next few weeks on Sunday evenings. The congregation is splitting for the teaching part of the service. Andrew Page is teaching a series on Hosea, while John Risbridger is doing a Bible overview and I’m teaching a short series on apologetics. [...]

Independent research shows ‘faith schools’ promote community cohesion and equality

Secondary schools with a religious foundation contribute significantly and substantially more to the promotion of community cohesion and the provision of equality of opportunity for students than other schools, according to the results of an academic study of recent Ofsted inspection data.

Analysis of the sample of independent inspection reports suggests that secondary-level ‘faith [...]

Interview with Philip Pullman (from 2004)

I interviewed Philip Pullman back in 2009, before I started work on my book, Dark Matter: A Thinking Fan’s Guide. It was an interesting experience, partly because I’d had car problems on the way there and arrived a little flustered. Looking at it again now, there are some ways in which I don’t think I handled it all that well. If I’m honest, I guess I was somewhat intimidated. Anyway, here it is, for what it’s worth (it’s also available on the Culturewatch site, where it’s been since 2004). With news today of his forthcoming book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, it seemed a good time to repost it here. [...]

Another article on Pullman’s next book

Canongate to publish Pullman on God

07.09.09 Catherine Neilan

Canongate is to publish “a remarkable new piece of fiction” by famously atheistic Philip Pullman, in which he challenges the events of the Gospels, and puts forward his own “compelling and plausible version”. Publisher Jamie Byng acquired world rights to the book, for an [...]

Philip Pullman’s next book is a reworking of the story of Jesus. And a denial of the truth of Jesus.

Children’s author Philip Pullman says Jesus wasn’t the Son of God by Tom Kelly

Bestselling children’s author Philip Pullman has provoked more anger from Christians with a new book denying that Jesus was the son of God.

The book, due to be published next Easter, accepts there was a holy man called Jesus but [...]

Can Atheism Save Europe?

Christopher Hitchens and John Lennox debated at the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival on the subject of ‘Can Atheism Save Europe?’ You can buy the DVD from The Fixed Point Foundation. When I posted this earlier today, it was available on YouTube, but it’s been removed.