From The Telegraph: A new analysis of the 2011 census shows that a decade of mass immigration helped mask the scale of decline in Christian affiliation among the British-born population – while driving a dramatic increase in Islam, particularly among the young. It suggests that only a minority of people will describe themselves as Christians within the next decade, for [...]

From Christianity Today: Dallas Willard, a prominent philosopher on a “quiet quest to subvert nominal Christianity” (according to a 2006 CT profile), died today after losing a battle with cancer. He was 77. Willard was recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and the disease progressed quickly. He is well known to evangelical Christians for his works on discipleship including (but not [...]

Theo Hobson of The Spectator writes, The atheist spring that began just over a decade ago is over, thank God. Richard Dawkins is now seen by many, even many non-believers, as a joke figure, shaking his fist at sky fairies. He’s the Mary Whitehouse of our day. So what was all that about, then? We can see it a bit [...]

To celebrate Dr. Alister McGrath’s recent book release and US tour kicking off next week we’re giving away one signed copy of his biography, C.S. Lewis – A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet.  The Amazon book description reads: Fifty years after his death, C. S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions. His legacy remains varied and vast. He was [...]

A new campaign has been launched by Muslim Ahmed Rehab to ”explain the true and proper meaning of Jihad” to Americans. It comes in response to a campaign by blogger Pamela Geller, which featured anti-Islamic ads in NYC subways. Muslims believe Geller “tarnished the Islamic term” of Jihad and want to set the record straight. Will this campaign be successful? And [...]

Yesterday Richard Dawkins baffled many of his Twitter followers when he shared a series of tweets regarding the the nature of the human fetus and abortion. It all began with his initial tweet stating, Murray Vasser on his blog reflects saying, Now when Dawkins typed, “any fetus,” he did not mean it. He was not thinking of dolphin fetuses or dog fetuses. What [...]

This month theologian and Christian apologist, Dr. Alister McGrath, released the biography, C.S. Lewis – A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Progphet. In the book McGrath provides his compelling perspective “as the only scholar to have conducted a complete, chronological analysis of the entire collection of Lewis’s letters and archives …”.(1) Avid Lewis fans are jumping to get this book and it’s [...]

From The Atlantic Wire: As if we hadn’t already seen enough Biblical events this year, a plague of over 30 million locusts swarmed over Egypt’s cities and farms just three weeks before Passover begins. But put your apocalyptic fears to rest. This happens every year as part of the locusts’ natural migration pattern, though this year’s swarm is especially large. That doesn’t [...]

Alvin Plantinga has been awarded the Nicholas Rescher Prize for his lifetime contributions to systematic philosophy. David J. Theroux of The Independent Institute has written a piece explaining the prestige of this award and various contributions Plantinga has made to the field of philosophy of religion. He writes, Plantinga is widely known for his work in the philosophy of religion, [...]

Can Atheism console?  Susan Jacoby thinks so and she describes how and why in this New York Times article.  She writes, It is a positive blessing, not a negation of belief, to be free of what is known as the theodicy problem. Human “free will” is Western monotheism’s answer to the question of why God does not use his power [...]