The New Intolerance - Atheist Fundamentalism

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/february/17.24.html

Richard Dawkin's latest book "The God Delusion" has sparked a controversy that he may not have expected - the "secular", "liberal" - and thinking - critics are not impressed - and are calling him an uneducated bigot (in the realm in which he writes).

Also this article reviews the book itself:

"Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology."

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/18772.htm

Is this about your church? Our church?

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/18572.htm

A hard article to read - many challenging home truths that apply very welll to the Church in Australia (written to the NZ Church) and to our own churches...

Was Lazarus the Beloved Disciple?

http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/2007/01/was-lazarus-beloved-disciple.html

A longish read but an increasingly interesting one. Why are people so certain that the Gospel of John was written by John the son of Zebedee? Love to hear your thoughts on this; (Ben Witherington is a very well known theologian and unlikely to espouse unorthodox views without very strong support for them.)

The thought that grabbed me - that if Ben is correct - then we have a Gospel written by someone who had actually died and been raised again by Jesus...