I recently went out on the streets to ask people who they think Jesus is. One thing I kept hearing was that Jesus existed but has been exaggerated over the centuries, becoming something he never really was. This view is understandable – the…
The Bible is filled with powerful and historically reliable accounts of Jesus. But I quite regularly get asked: ‘Is there any evidence for Jesus outside the Bible?’ Writer Lee Strobel once said, ‘If the Jesus of faith is not also the Jesus
We live in a highly pluralistic context in the UK, one of the most multicultural societies on earth. For example, where I grew up in London, you could choose from Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Atheism, Islamism – you could even be a Crystal
You can never escape your past – or at least your Christian past. Such seems to be the central idea in Tom Holland’s aptly named book, Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind. But is the idea alarming or reassuring? It will depend on how t…
I remember meeting a Sikh for the first time, when I started at university. I didn’t feel at ease around him at all. He seemed so different to me, dressed in a turban and all, and the name Dip just increased my sense that he was entirely ‘o…
Another astonishing and brilliant book from Yuval Noah Harari. From a lesser public intellectual his title might be considered a touch hubristic. But Harari’s credentials, following the world-wide success of Sapiens and Homo Deus, are such
You have started life at your new university. Despite your nerves, you make an effort to meet the other students on your corridor and discover you are next door to a Hindu. Raj is from the Midlands; his parents moved to the UK from India be…
History lessons teach us how to weigh up sources, digging into the details to discover what happened in the past. With things outside of living memory, the surviving sources are the only way we can know about the past. Whether it’s World Wa…
I firmly believed that I didn’t need anyone but meI sincerely thought I was so completeLook how wrong you can beRod Stewart, “Every Picture Tells a Story” It’s a topic that all of us are talking about but not many want to make a pronounceme…
It’s a question asked by any thoughtful person. “How can we be expected to believe in a good, almighty God, when we live surrounded by such decay and ugliness?” On a large scale, as I write, Europe struggles with the misery of hundreds of t…
“I couldn’t get him out of my head … and the more I learned about him the less I wanted to leave him.” So says the eponymous character in Life of Pi, speaking about Jesus (quoted by the author, 102). With 815,000 Hindus in the UK, the sight…
This talk was given at the Round Church, Cambridge, UK to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of C.S. Lewis. David Illman, Christian Heritage's Director of Apologetics, introduces the two speakers, Dr James Le Fanu and Dr John West. Dr L…