Christians don’t think that Dawkins thinks that they think that God really has a beard. “Old man in the sky with a white beard” is a figure of speech – shorthand – which neatly encapsulates...

Actually, it meant a great deal: a very great deal. You don’t have to believe that God exists to see that a story in which God takes on human form is a very different story...

I suggested in my last sermon that if Oolon Colluphid had tracked down the “God” who had left a message in five mile high letters of fire on the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains, he still wouldn’t...

Slow down. The Taliban were religious, in the sense that in their opinion a being called Allah really designed and created the world and everything in it, including them. They were also a cultus in...

(Everyone, I guess, sees their position as the neutral one and everyone else’s position as biassed. I wonder why 177 minutes of the Today programme is completely secular; you feel horribly excluded by 3 minutes...

Where did that remark come from? Mormonism, as anyone can easily find out, is one of a number of Christian sects which came into being in the USA in the nineteenth century. It differs from...

unity. Evangelicals, by definition, don’t care about “unity” nearly as much as they care about truth. When you say “We may differ on some issues of morality and theology, but the important thing is that...

So, Andrew, what you are basically saying is that the theological issue regarding homosexuality boils down to a disagreement between those who think that the sodomy laws are part of Levitical code about cleanliness, holiness...

But it was never actually that big a deal. Jenkins didn’t really disbelieve in the Resurrection: he merely questioned the historical veracity of the New Testament narratives. It was mildly interesting: one side saying “I...

I was sent a copy of Richard Dawkins’ amusing book, The God Delusion, by an anonymous donor, so I feel I should at least try to review it. This isn’t easy. I got as far...