Arguably, the most effective proselytising agency the globe as ever experienced was the Wesleyan ‘Methodist’ movement. The architects didn’t start out to create a new Protestant denomination, rather to use an Anglican governance caveat to create a revitalisation Order within…

When Machines Pretend to Be Gods: Why Superintelligence Can Never Be Divine

The existing reality of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and the now race to create, unleash or otherwise deploy, Super Intelligence (and to borrow a cosmological term) Event Horizon…

The Frame

Before we ask and seek a genuine answer from the dominant school of Islamic thought and tradition, I wanted to table a, hopefully objective, synopsis of the operational and relational framework that surrounded the prophet Muhammad, the recipient…

The Frame

Persecution – A word, like so many in our post-truth culture, that is losing weight with various musings and misapplications, all trivialising or worse, hijacking it’s understanding to leverage (at the very least) outrage from some cohorts.

It…

Working Out Your Salvation With…?

Just these last couple of weeks, something deep started stirring inside me—I got what I know to be a Divine Prompt, one I couldn’t ignore. So, after reflecting hard and praying long, I sat…

Eric Metaxas’s book Is Atheism Dead? is a provocative and wide-ranging exploration of the ongoing debate between belief in God and atheism, framed as a response to the famous 1966 TIME magazine cover that asked, “Is God Dead?”12…

“If your eye causes you to sin, the pluck it out, if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.”

Jesus The Christ
 

Now, if you have even the slightest inkling of the nature of God, then you know…

A long-time friend of mine recently sent me a link to a podcast that he thought was interesting and wanted my take on it. His interest was clearly piqued as my friend is not prone in any way to pass…

The author of what has been considered by many scholars as – ‘being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it’ – was written by Peter Forsyth, who fell in hard with the…

(John 8:1-11 (taken from the P.E.R.Version Translation)

…While Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning, after having a time out on the Mount of Olives, Jesus wandered into the temple to do some consulting.

His subscribers…