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The Rebirth of Virtue: An Interview with N T Wright by Trevin Wax is well worth the read. It illustrates the challenge of engaging Gospel and culture re UK and USA editions of ethics book by N T Wright, and expounds on virtue (character) ethics. The role of the Christian community is not so clear in [...]

I agree with the Irish atheists! I was amazed. We agree on at least this one thing - opposition to blasphemy laws! Chair of Atheist Ireland Michael Nugent said in a posting on the blasphemy.ie website that the new law was “both silly and dangerous”. “It is silly because medieval religious laws have no place in a [...]

Great news: Christians in Malaysia have the constitutional right to use the word “Allah” to refer to God, the country’s high court declared Thursday. In the landmark ruling, Judge Datuk Lau Bee Lan announced that the word “Allah” is not exclusive to Islam and that the government’s Home Ministry is “not empowered” to ban non-Muslims [...]

‘The Light has Come’, an exposition of the Gospel According to John by Lesslie Newbigin, is one of my favourite books. I dip into this treasure trove frequently. ‘The Light that has come’ is Jesus Christ. Jesus is truly the ‘life that is the light of all people’ (see quote below and verse 4). As I ponder the new year, [...]