My last post answered questions from Down Under about why we should trouble ourselves to try to answer life’s most troubling questions:...

Two emails this week, both from Australia, raise questions about doubt, belief, and the Big Questions. Indeed, their questions come at...

COVID-19 has affected matters great and small. Among the smaller matters has been the launch of my latest book, Can I Believe?...

Sixty years ago, London publisher Geoffrey Bles first released a revision of four sets of radio talks by an Oxford literature don. The...

The world’s most popular religion, the world’s largest social movement, the world’s most believed Theory of Everything depends on...

People don’t suffer and die in hell because God chooses to torture and kill them.

I’ve held fire on this subject until now. But a number of folk have asked me to comment, and the court cases are increasing across...

One of the great obstacles to Christian faith in our time is the traditional teaching that all who have not heard and received the Gospel...

Almost 20 years ago, I published this column in Faith Today (September 2001). A reader recently wrote to the FT editors asking for its...

A few friends have seen this post on Facebook and asked me to re-post it here to make it easier for them to share. Franklin Graham...

George Steiner, the literary critic, Wynton Marsalis, the celebrated trumpeter, and Doug Gilmour, the Hall-of-Fame hockey player, walk...

Maverick computer scientist David Gelernter set off a grenade in the faculty dining room last spring. His essay, “Giving Up Darwin,”...

The Lord’s Prayer teaches us to ask for more heaven on earth (Matthew 6:10). But that’s the last thing many people want—at least, it is...

The world’s great religions offer what millions of people want: a sensible, straightforward path to life. That’s why those religions are...

[This was originally posted in March 2019] The late neurologist and bestselling author Oliver Sacks—he wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife...

By now, you have probably heard of Oumuamua (Hawaiian for “scout”), the interstellar object hurtling out of our solar system past the...

“Not too bad.” That’s the common reply on the prairies to a friendly “How are you?” It’s also common out here in my new home in the...

Christianity has what I sometimes call a “double weirdness problem.” Elements of its teaching that are truly strange—such as the...

There are two tragedies in life, to paraphrase the famous line from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. One is to fail to gain your...

School boards in an uproar. Parents protective of their children. Teachers defensive. Students confused. The furore over creation versus...