By Alasdair Belling, adapted from the Undeceptions episode ‘Jesus Quests' The need to undeceive ourselves That the first-century Semitic preacher Jesus of Nazareth lived, walked and died in first-century Roman-occupied Palestine is as much a historical certainty as the existence…
by John Dickson So how does the Christian faith cope with the idea of extra-terrestrial life? Imagine we do discover rational life out there, or imagine if it first discovers us. What could my faith say to that? Well, that…
by John Dickson In my public speaking career, I've been interrupted just three times. Once in the Manning Bar at Sydney University, during my band days. I was trying to introduce a song about God's love, and people in the…
"I think our society is diminished by not having a shared civic day of rest."
by John Dickson Probably Jesus’ most famous speech is the one in Matthew 5-7, the so-called ‘Sermon on the Mount’. It opens with a kind of grammatical drumroll, using 7 verbs in a row to build up to the opening…
by John Dickson The most extraordinary thing about the Apostle Paul is his inclusiveness. He once shared the view of his fellow Pharisees that the Jews alone were the people of God, the pure. Even when the Pharisees accepted converts,…
