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An interesting sideline in Alister McGrath’s The Twilight of Atheism is the story of the impact of secularism on modern theology.

As a movement atheism reached its zenith around 1970. Communism was still power and Western intellectuals and some theologians were happy to join the bandwagon.

McGrath writes, “Convinced that nobody (well, nobody who really mattered, that [...]

“Atheism invited humanity to imagine a world without God. For many in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, this was a morally compelling vision—a world in which humanity could think and do as it pleased, without having to look over its shoulder at some disapproving deity.”

Alister McGrathYet in the last thirty years, atheism has fallen from [...]

The madman sprang into their midst and pierced them with his glances.
“Where has God gone?” he cried.
“I shall tell you. We have killed him—you and I. We are his murderers.

Friedrich NietzscheI’ve just finished working my way through ”The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World“ (Alister Mcgrath). It’s a [...]

What comes into our mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

The history of mankind will show that no people has ever risen above its religion. And man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

For this reason the gravest [...]

Whenever I share the vision for the next1000 Aussie churches I get asked, “But what kind of churches?”
To answer I’ll use an analogy from science.

According to Austrian astrophysicist Erich Jantsch, every living thing is both constantly changing and constantly remaining the same. If an organism doesn’t do both it will cease to exist. A [...]