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How would one of the most influential theologians and church leaders of all time, have responded to one of the biggest issues facing Christianity today? Christians seem very good at preoccupying themselves with having spats about creationism, but current theologian/scientist Alister McGrath has written a very informative article in Christianity Today magazine about the views [...]

As I mentioned earlier, later this term I’ll talk on the story of Jesus sacking the Jerusalem temple (in Matthew,Mark,Luke,John). I think the stuff in my previous post is rather good and very useful, but the fact is that I doubt I’ll use it in any asemblies, and to be honest I’m not too fussed [...]

Recently, LOST were discussing homosexuality, and I saw a link back to rather an odd place. The week before, I’d had a discussion with some creationists. They presented all the usual stuff about ‘taking the bible literally’ and so on, but when we’d got past all that, it turned out that their main issue was [...]

I recently found this amusing (for me) piece of text. It’s written by Philo of Alexandria, and it’s about the creation story in Genesis 1, at the start of the Bible. He [the author of Genesis] says that in six days the world was created, not that its Maker required a length of time for [...]