Category Archives: Apologetics

Self-Esteem

At a funeral I recently attended I was, I suppose, slightly amused to see a nearby headstone in the cemetery draped with a “Happy 100th Birthday” banner. It seems vaguely ludicrous to celebrate the birthday of someone who is dead … Continue reading

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Blood From A Stone?

Jonathan Amos, a Science Correspondent for the BBC, has a piece on their website that is a classic illustration of the pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo that is being passed off on the public as science fact. Prof. Dimitar Sasselov, of the Harvard-Smithsonian … Continue reading

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Religion Without God

The BBC Website is carrying a piece by Tom Shakespeare, a Quaker, entitled “Is it better to be religious than spiritual?“. In it he comments on the growing practice of describing one’s belief system as “spiritual but not religious”. Many … Continue reading

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