Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

Every song about love lost and won, and every film about good overcoming evil is an echo of that greater story of redemption.

The idea that human rights, welfare provision and equality will naturally prevail in any educated society was a secular myth, he said: ‘Everything we take for granted as being part of the natural state of things absolutely isn’t, and the reason we have these assumptions is because our society is saturated with Christian assumptions.’

We aren’t obliged to make every element of the stories line up in order to establish that the Gospels are historically reliable, any more than differing accounts from the battle of Waterloo would change the conclusion that Napoleon’s army was defeated.

for mainstream academics, the view that Jesus never existed belongs in the same category as those who claim that the moon landings were a hoax.

From a purely naturalistic viewpoint, we evolve whatever beliefs make sure we keep propagating the species. This means that any beliefs in the real existence of human rights, values and morality are ultimately an illusion.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert

‘Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have’ (1 Peter 3.15).

the Islamic view of Jesus stands against the vast weight of prevailing scholarship.

hell isn’t God’s punishment for not believing the right things; it’s a self-imposed exile and final end for those who simply don’t want God.