Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60016 The claim that Christians and Muslims worship the same God is one of the most commonly repeated statements in interfaith dialogue. It sounds generous, inclusive, and peaceable. It is also, on careful examination, theologically incoherent. The question is not whether Christians and Muslims both claim to worship one God. They do. The question…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60011 Judaism is one of the oldest religious traditions in the world and the religion from which Christianity historically emerged. Understanding what Judaism actually believes and practises is important for Christians, not because all religions are equally valid, but because the Old Testament is a Jewish book, Jesus was Jewish, and the relationship between…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60012 Islam is the world’s second-largest religion, with nearly two billion adherents. It is also the religion that most frequently presents itself as compatible with, or even the fulfilment of, biblical faith. For this reason, Christians need to understand what Islam actually teaches, where it genuinely overlaps with Christianity, and where it fundamentally diverges….
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60037 One of the strangest features of the contemporary West is the way relativism — the insistence that there are no absolute truths, especially in matters of morality — has produced not the tolerance it promised but a new and remarkably aggressive form of intolerance. The culture that declared “there is no absolute truth”…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60028 This question moves from the theological framework of Q60027 to the practical: should individual Christians be actively involved in the political process? Should they vote, campaign, stand for office, lobby, and seek to influence public policy? The answer is yes, with significant qualifications that protect the integrity of the gospel and the witness…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60036 Expressive individualism is the dominant philosophy of the modern West, even though most people who live by it have never heard the term. It is the belief that the highest good is to look within yourself, discover your authentic identity, and then express that identity to the world — and that any external…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60032 Artificial intelligence has moved from science fiction into daily reality with a speed that has caught much of the world off guard. Language models that can write essays, generate code, compose music, and hold extended conversations; image generators that produce photorealistic pictures from text descriptions; autonomous systems that make decisions with real-world consequences;…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60033 The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life has raised a practical question for many Christians: is it right to use AI? Some believers are uneasy about it, sensing that there is something problematic about relying on machines for tasks that seem to require human thought, creativity, or even spiritual discernment. Others…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60060 The question of extraterrestrial life has fascinated humanity for centuries, and the modern space age has intensified the search. Programmes like SETI, the discovery of exoplanets, and the exploration of Mars have all fed the expectation that we will eventually discover life beyond Earth. What does Scripture say about this? Is there life…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60031 Environmentalism has become one of the defining concerns of contemporary Western culture. Climate change, pollution, deforestation, species extinction, and the broader question of humanity’s relationship with the natural world now dominate political discourse, educational curricula, and public consciousness. For the Christian, the question is not whether the earth matters — it plainly does…