Month: April 2018

In this post I consider the question: “Was there a surge of hostility towards traditional Christianity in the wake of last year’s General Election?” This was a thought that occurred to me whilst working on my previous etimasthe post, when I suddenly noticed a particular clustering of dates of media articles etimasthe has addressed: June

[Shorter version] [Longer version] The Independent Online recently re-posted on Facebook a story from 21 June 2017 whose headline read, “Historians are questioning if Jesus ever existed at all.” But is there any substance to this story? The Independent Online’s article opens by admitting that the existence of Jesus has seldom been questioned:— Whatever you

[Shorter version] [Longer version] The Independent Online recently re-posted on Facebook a story from 21 June 2017 whose headline read, “Historians are questioning if Jesus ever existed at all.” But is there any substance to this story? The Independent Online’s article opens by admitting that the existence of Jesus has seldom been questioned:— Whatever you

Guest post by AnOldHope, an evangelical believer and blogger living in Sussex.   A recent article in the Guardian Online looks into the commonly held belief that Jesus is a myth.  According to this, 40% of the adult population of England believe he never existed as a historical figure- so what evidence is or isn’t

In the second in a series of reflections on the sermons of Gregory of Nyssa, a fourth century theologian and one of the so-called ‘Three Cappadocians,’ we consider whether — in Gregory’s view and that of others in the fourth century — the sexual union of husband and wife is part of God’s intention for