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A Tale of Two Anthropologies: Physicalism and Holistic Dualism

In the first article in this series, Wallace outlined two prominent answers to the fundamental question “What is a human being?” In this second article, Wallace will argue against one answer (physicalism) and in favour of the alternative (holistic dualism).

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The Relationship of Neuroscience and the Soul

Are we ultimately bodies—purely physical things? Or are we ultimately souls—immaterial things? Or are we a combination of the two? What are the implications of our answer to this question for how we follow Jesus’ greatest commandment to love God and others?

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Underappreciated Evidence for the Reliability of the Gospels & Acts, Part 2

Explore two key lines of evidence for the reliability of the book of Acts - undesigned coincidences and external confirmations - and considers how Acts contributes to the case for Jesus’ resurrection.

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Underappreciated Evidence for the Reliability of the Gospels & Acts, Part 1

Are the gospels trustworthy? Do they reflect the testimony of those who were originally eyewitnesses of Jesus’ public ministry, death, and resurrection? Or did these accounts arise and develop decades after the purported events transpired? This article presents some evidence, often underappreciated, for the reliability of the Gospels.

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Engaging with Truth in the Context of Indic Faiths

If you’ve ever had a deep conversation with someone from Hindu, Jain, Sikh, or Buddhist backgrounds, you might have noticed something unusual: truth doesn’t always mean the same thing to these groups as it does to Christians.

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Why are Jesus’s birth stories different?

As Christmas draws near, Christians across the world will be spending time reading and thinking about the narratives of Jesus’s…

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The Easter Miracle

The Christian gospel is based squarely on a miracle.  It was the miracle of the resurrection of Christ that started it going, and that same miracle is its central message. In a world steeped in scientific rationality, belief in miracles often faces skepticism, epitomised by David Hume's critique. But a nuanced reevaluation challenges this dichotomy.

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Can we overcome prejudice with progress?

Do our very yearnings to see the world become a better place, actually point us to someone, not merely something, better?

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When do coincidences become ‘God-incidences?’

Is it possible that religious experience can count as more than just confirmation bias?

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Is religion still relevant today?

In a world with many problems, is religion still relevant? Has a more scientific outlook assumed the status that religion…

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Why trust the Christian message?

The Christian faith can be said to be about a lot of things, loving others, being a faithful person, saying…

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Why would God allow pandemics?

Many momentous world events hold our attention a few days but don’t really change our daily lives much thereafter. The…

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