Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60016. Whenever this question comes up, people are usually asking two different things at once, and it helps to separate them before deciding whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. One question is whether both faiths teach that there is only one God. The other is whether the God each describes is in…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60015. The New Age movement is not a church, a denomination, or an organisation you can join, and that is precisely what makes it so difficult to pin down. There is no headquarters, no founder, no membership roll and no creed. What there is instead is a mood, a set of instincts about the…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 09042. Eastern Orthodoxy is the Christian tradition most Western believers know least about, and that ignorance runs both ways. Ask an average British evangelical what Eastern Orthodoxy teaches and you will usually get something about icons and beards. Ask an Orthodox believer what Baptists believe and you may get something equally thin. Since a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3053. How is Jesus different from other religious leaders? It is one of the most common questions a thoughtful unbeliever asks, and it deserves a serious answer rather than a slogan. The world has produced many revered religious leaders: Moses and Muhammad, Buddha and Confucius, gurus and philosophers beyond counting. Popular culture likes to…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1134. Holy books are not in short supply. Islam has the Quran, Hinduism has the Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism has the Pali Canon, and Mormonism has the Book of Mormon, to name only the most obvious examples of the many holy books competing for allegiance around the world today. So what makes…