The Worldview Bulletin Newsletter

In 2025, columnist Giles Coren wrote a piece for The Times at the start of Lent, titled “This Lent I Will Turn Atheism to Ashes.” A self-described “lapsed atheist,” Coren recounts how his decision to give up atheism began one Ash Wednesday, when a vicar dipped his finger into palm ash, marked Coren’s forehead with a cross, and reminded him, “You are dust, and to dust you shall return.” In the piece, Coren argues that atheism has become the default stance of modern adulthood.

When should a nation engage in conflict and go to war? This is a question that faithful Christians have considered throughout church history. Some, particularly in the Anabaptist or Quaker traditions, adopted pacifism. Stanley Hauerwas, in his book The Peaceable Kingdom, writes, “Nonviolence is not one strategy among others. It is not even a strategy.

Over the past twenty years, Christian apologetics has played a major role in my life and spiritual journey. I originally became a Christian through apologetics, as I was deeply impacted by the intellectual case for Christianity and the evidence supporting the truth of the Gospel. The philosophical arguments for the existence of God, the historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus, and the rational responses to objections against Christianity all helped lead me to faith.

In first-century Jewish burial practice, death was not the final act but the beginning of a sacred two-stage process. Initially, the body was laid to rest in a rock-hewn tomb, often within a family burial cave. After the flesh had decayed—a process that usually took about a year—the bones were reverently collected in a ritual known as ossilegium, or secondary burial, typically on or around the anniversary of death.

What does the resurrection mean for our Christian faith, and what significance does it have for non-believers? Let’s look at two ways the resurrection is consequential for both Christians and non-Christians. A Foundational and Historical Event The resurrection lies at the very heart of the Christian gospel.

By Paul D. Weaver The Relevant Passages of Scripture 2 Kings 18:7–16 2 Kings 19:35 The Discovery Sennacherib’s Prism, also known as Taylor’s Prism, is believed to have been discovered at ancient Nineveh (modern-day Nebbi Yunus), the former capital of the Assyrian Empire. Ancient Nineveh is in the northern part of modern-day Iraq. Colonel Robert Taylor, the British Consul at Baghdad, acquired the prism in AD 1830, for whom it was named.

By David Baggett and William Lane Craig Theism arguably provides the better account of human dignity [than Erik Wielenberg’s Godless Normative Realism—see definition below*], the sort of intrinsic value of which Immanuel Kant wrote, as distinguished from mere price. There’s an important cluster of interrelated notions here: basic human rights, intrinsic human value, human dignity, essential human equality, and the like.

By Christopher R. Brewer Before Alvin Plantinga, theistic belief was in a tough spot, or so the story goes. In 1980, Time referred to him as “America’s leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God,” and this was well before he delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen in 1986–87, published his Warrant trilogy (1993–2000), delivered his second series of Gifford Lectures in 2005 in St. Andrews, or won the Templeton Prize in 2017.

By Robert M. Bowman Jr. [The first five installments of this series are available atPart 1, Part 2,Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. Part 6, below, concludes the series.] Unitarianism refers classically to the Christian heresy that God is a single person (hence, no Trinity) and that Jesus Christ is an exalted man. The doctrine originated in the sixteenth century and found formal theological expression in the writings of Laelius Socinus and especially his nephew Faustus Socinus.

The Declaration of Independence claims that it will enumerate certain truths that are “self-evident.” Unfortunately, that very claim has been anything but self-evident to many people, and there have been continuing debates over whether the truths announced in the Declaration are truly “self-evident.” In its technical sense, a self-evident truth is a foundational proposition that you grasp as true once you understand it.