Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Today a bit of good news … Rimsha Masih is now safe. She is the 11 year old Pakistani girl who was arrested last August in Islamabad after a Muslim cleric accused her of burning the Qur’an, and was held in jail before getting bail. Did she actually burn a Quran, perhaps accidently? Nope, not at all, the … Read more
Categories for Scientific studies into Prayer Scientific studies for anything, and that includes prayer, can be dividend up into the following three categories: The Good – Proper scientific rigour has been applied, the data sample is reasonable, the precise details have been well written up, and so the results obtained are fully backed by the … Read more
Cristina Odone is a journalist, novelist and broadcaster. She is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies, and a deputy editor of the New Statesman. That all sounds really impressive, so what’s the problem? What I have choked upon is her latest article in the Telegraph, it is packed full of not … Read more
Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International since 1972, has been a very strong advocate for the idea that gay Christians can simply pray their gayness away. Things has now changed, and if you will forgive the metphor, he has had a road to Demascus experience and seen the light. He has now closed the Exodus International and issued a … Read more
When there is something that is popular, others often attempt to hook into it and surf the crest of that so that some other agenda many then be promoted. Well … guess what, with the new Superman movie coming out the Guardian reports … Hollywood studio Warner Bros is targeting Christian audiences in the US with a … Read more
Naveena Shine, (yes that really is her name), has attempted to go for 100 days without eating to prove that humans can “live on light”. Seriously! Yes indeed, she believes that it is possible for human beings to survive without food and so conducted what she described as an experiment to prove it. So how did it … Read more