Ellis Potter is the Pastor of the Basel Christian Fellowship and a former Member of L’Abri Fellowship. He was born in California and was a Zen Buddhist for many years before becoming a Christian. In this talk, posted on Apologetics 315, Potter gives an informative and generous account of Buddhism, its underlying philosophy and its [...]
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With an Australian Federal Election approaching on August 21st, the usually rather apathetic Australian population, including Australian Christians, are stirred from their slumber and transformed into placard-waving political animals, even if only for a short time. Amongst this renewed political and societal vigour, a group of Australian Christians has got together to put together what [...]
The object of faith is not a doctrine, for then the relationship would be merely intellectual. The object of faith is not a teacher with a doctrine, for when the teacher has a doctrine, the doctrine is more important than the teacher and the relationship is again intellectual.
The object of the faith is the reality [...]
What if notorious atheist Christopher Hitchens, bestselling author of God Is Not Great, had a Christian brother? He does. Peter Hitchens details a very personal story of how he left the faith but dramatically returned. And like many of the Old Testament saints whose personal lives were intertwined with the life of their nation, so [...]
Continue Reading...Calling All Angels - Train
I need a sign to let me know you’re here
All of these lines are being crossed over the atmosphere
I need to know that things are gonna look up
‘Cause I feel us drowning in a sea spilled from a cup
When there is no place safe and no safe place to put my [...]
The Christian philosophical community need not devote all of its efforts to attempting to refute opposing claims and or to arguing for its own claims, in each case from premises accepted by the bulk of the philosophical community at large. It ought to do this, indeed, but it ought to do more. For if it [...]
Continue Reading...Over the last few years, the New Atheism has argued that faith is inherently irrational, and that religion should not be tolerated, but rather “countered, criticized and exposed by rational argument wherever its influence arises.” Authors Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris, among others, have in particular been evangelists of this “New Atheism.”
In this [...]
In this lecture, philosopher Keith Ward explains how quantum theory undermines traditional physics and the out-dated strict materialism it spawned. This is the strict, rigid materialism forced down our throats by the New Atheists like Richard Dawkins.
Ward claims that philosophical principles uncovered by quantum theory such as the effect of observation on subatomic particles, probability [...]
Written by Angela Shanahan.
Christians should beware of the lure of the Australian Greens. Underneath the nostalgia for a less consumer-orientated society where the ideals of community and eco-friendly natural harmony prevail, and humanitarian causes like refugees are embraced, there lies a dangerous philosophical ethic which, far from being a coherent choice for Christians, in fact [...]
by Bruce Hulme
Are you like me, pinching yourself that we’re nearly half way through 2010? I have papers to be written, work tasks overdue, and I constantly find myself operating out of the urgent-important quadrant much more than I would like. My alarm clock feels like it’s going off earlier and earlier each day, my [...]