The Philosophical Muser

  Matters of God are different to all other matters in a number of ways. One remarkable way is that intelligence is a poor predictor of gett...

  Quote from a friend on Facebook that's doing the rounds:   “Elon Musk’s wealth is projected to more than double over the next five y...

Refusing to treat someone fairly because of their skin colour used to be the epitome of the racism we've tried so hard to weed out of so...

Back when I wasn’t a Christian, in the late 1990s, I made the following kind of argument to Christians who said that God had healed them of ...

  Following on from parts one and two about the current nation of Israel, I want to talk now about this subject in relation to end times (...

  Society is awash these days with what psychologist Rob Henderson calls "luxury beliefs” - which are beliefs that are designed to make...

  God only commands us to things that are good for us and good for the world. Therefore, He instructs us to do things that would be good eve...

  In a recent Blog post on Israel , I lamented how it has become increasingly fashionable among a certain segment of self-styled activists –...

  Sky News and the WHO (both of whom I wish knew better) say in this article that “Gaza faces 'man-made' mass starvation due to Isr...

  Two days ago, I shared an account of how I delivered yet another gold standard pep talk of potentially life-changing inspiration. 😃 Tod...

"In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God." St. John of the Cross It’s been an intense and difficult period of...

A few years ago, I was giving a pep talk to a young man who was under my management for a while. He was about to start a new job on the till...

  In honour of the French student we have staying with us – who is here to learn lots about our English language and customs – I’ve been thi...

Recently, I watched a documentary about the Order of the Solar Temple - a 1990s apocalyptic cult whose members committed mass suicide (and i...

  Famously, when a woman in the UK asks, "Do I look good in this dress?", it’s deemed to be an emotionally charged question with i...

  I've noticed something odd about Facebook memories – you know, those memories of past posts that pop up every day when you log in. The...

  The concept of ‘Divine hiddenness’ is regularly cited as one of the strongest arguments against God’s existence. It’s a term coined by the...

  It’s good to remember that false beliefs tend to be nested in many more true beliefs and good intentions – a bit like how a rotten seed is...

My wife and I are in a season of watching BBC TV adaptations of great literary works. The works of Eliot, Tolstoy, Austen, Hardy and Dickens...

  We can dance around the numerous reasons people give for claiming not to believe in God, and rejecting Christianity for reasons x, y, and ...