Author: Chris Green

Apologetics 3: Christ our Best King

Today’s news is that the Charity Commissioners are considering abolishing the right of churches and other Christian groups to claim charitable status.   Charities act in the public good, but churches benefit  themselves, not others, it is argued, and so they cannot claim to be properly charities. QED. Let’s forget for a moment the hundreds

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Questions, questions, questions

Os Guinness told a tale of an earnest young apologist trying to convince a sceptic that Jesus rose from the dead.  After hours of argument about bodies and empty tombs, the sceptic caved in.  “OK, you’ve persuaded me,” he said. “Jesus rose from the dead.  So what?” Apologetics is about much more than arguments over

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