Glenn Peoples shares his thoughts on TV One’s recent episode Jesus: The Cold Case. Like a number of others tonight I have just watched Jesus: The Cold Case on TV One, presented by Bryan Bruce. Here are my thoughts on what I have seen. First off, who is Bryan Bruce? Bryan Bruce is an award winning producer, […]
Entries Tagged as 'Historical Ignorance'
Jesus: The Cold Case a Guest Post by Glenn Peoples
July 27th, 2011 18 Comments
Tags: Glenn Peoples · Guest Post · Historical Apologetics · Historical Ignorance · Jesus The Cold Case · TV One
John Lennox on the “Religion v Science” Myth
February 15th, 2011 273 Comments
John Lennox will arrive in Auckland in less than two weeks for his New Zealand tour. If you are not familiar with Lennox watch this video “The “Religion v Science” Myth.” In it Lennox examines the historically ignorant myth that religion is and always has been at odds with science. Details of Lennox’s upcoming New […]
Tags: Historical Ignorance · John Lennox · Science and Religion · Urban Myths
Things They Don’t Teach you in Public Schools…
July 4th, 2007 2 Comments
Tonight I watched an ad on TV which has a man congratulating New Zealanders for being the first to give women the vote. This ad reminded me of the following picture which I discovered in Alvin Schmidt’s book “How Christianity Changed the World.” The picture on this page shows women voting at the polls in […]
Tags: Christian History · Historical Ignorance · Urban Myths · Voting
Dixie Chicks, Free Speech and the Flat Earth Society
February 13th, 2007 Comments Off on Dixie Chicks, Free Speech and the Flat Earth Society
One irritating feature of the contemporary media is the credence they give to the views of celebrities. There is often a kind of unwritten assumption that because a person is a good actor or singer, his or her views on politics, morality and ethics somehow carry more weight.Case in point is the enthusiastic reporting of […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Dixie Chicks · Freedom of Speech · George Bush · Historical Ignorance · Iraq
Home Education
December 1st, 2006 Comments Off on Home Education
We are fans of home education and we home educate our kids. We cop a lot of flak at times from people who assume that they will be better off in school – usually because they went to school and they have taken on the false assumptions about home education. Often it feels as if […]
Tags: Family · Historical Ignorance · Home Education · Humour
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
Christmas was never about religion til recently….
December 30th, 2006 Comments Off on Christmas was never about religion til recently….
I thought it was one of those urban legends, you know when you keep hearing something that sounds so ridiculous it can’t possibly be true. I am speaking of the reports I have heard about people phoning into talkback shows or strangers overheard making comments to the effect that religious people are trying to take […]
Tags: Christmas · Historical Ignorance · Religion in Public Life · Religious History