“Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.” -Paul Tillich, “Saturday Evening Post” “God gave us a curiosity to understand his creation. I don’t think we need to worry that we will move into an exploration that will embarrass…

That’s the question of a documentary aired by BBC, which looks at the relationship between religion and evolution. Connor Cunningham, the documentary’s host, is a firm believer in evolution as well as a Christian. The apparent clash between science and religion, he argues, comes from extremists on both sides who have hijacked the debate to…

In the early chapters of Genesis, we meet Adam and Eve, the original man and woman formed from the dust of the Earth, brought to life by the breath of God, and placed in a beautiful garden with a mysterious tree whose fruit gives knowledge. Their story provides a foundation for the rest of the…

Alister McGrath, author of A Fine-Tuned Universe, was a “rottweiler sort” of atheist in his younger years. However, after attending university, McGrath discovered that God was more exciting that he initially thought, and became a Christian. As he began to think about the intersection between science and religion, he saw that their interactions were far…

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