Love and the Cross Controversy

By Caleb | April 20, 2007

Word Alive and Spring Harvest, two Christian conferences that for many years have held a joint event, are parting company over the issue of Penal Substitutionary Atonement (whether Jesus died to take the punishment for our sins on the Cross, PSA for short). Adrian Warnock has given a good summary of what’s happened on his […]

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The importance of asking questions

By Caleb | March 18, 2007

One idea people have about religion is that it means hanging your brain up at the door, and just accepting a certain set of dogmas unquestioningly. Even some Christians view questions with suspicion as something dangerous and insubordinate. On a recent discussion on Ship of Fools, one person argued that: making this concept of supernatural […]

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The Problem of Susan and other thorny issues of Narniology

By Caleb | October 24, 2005

What took him so long? Yes, Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy and Richard Dawkins of the literary world has been on the warpath against The Chronicles of Narnia again. When The Guardian ran a feature previewing the film a few weeks ago which described The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe […]

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