Do scientists believe in God?
One of the common arguments against belief in God is that the majority of scientists in the world do not believe in a higher power. If they don’t believe in […]
Category Archives: Tough Questions
Grow Up?
When our kids were in kindergarten, one of the moms from their class approached me on the playground one day for some “religious” advice about how to deal with what […]
Madonna, World Peace, and Religious Pluralism
World Peace was center stage during Madonna’s halftime performance at this year’s Super Bowl. For our Wondering Fair readers uninterested in American culture or sports, I will spare you the […]
Faith and Reason
Imagine you’re sitting around the dinner table over the holidays and someone in your family says, “Why do you spend all this time studying religion? Religion is all about faith, […]
Last Words Approaching the Afterlife
“What do you think happens when you die?” “That’s a strange question!” your average university student might reply. “When you die, you die. The plug’s pulled out, and the lights […]
On Testimony and History
In an earlier post I suggested that, when comparing different religions with Christianity, one must take seriously the centrality of the person of Jesus. That means, rather than starting with […]
Gore-Tex Curriculum Resists the Good Book
When the first fleet landed in Australia in 1788, chaplain Richard Johnson characteristically turned to his King James Bible for wisdom. At this first Christian Service, drawing on Psalm 116, […]
Confessions of a Recovering Biblicist
“Hi, my name is Dave, and I am a Biblicist.” “Hi Dave,” reply my Bible Anonymous sympathisers. We’ve all been on quite the journey. Conservatism runs deep, and we’ve each […]
Adventures in Doubt
It’s rather fashionable to be agnostic nowadays. The modern project of finding indubitable certitudes on which to base my life is said to have collapsed; Descartes’ adventures in doubt, however, […]
A Look into Ourselves
[Editor’s note: today we have an excerpt from a classic argument by John Locke, the seventeenth century philosopher, to shake things up a bit] I think that it is beyond […]
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