As you might have guessed, it's the culminating entry in my recent exchange with Peter Hitchens. In it, I discuss the absence of evidence for non-human moral authority, the fact that accusations of unbridled hedonism have always been used in an attempt...

There was one item, however, that caught my attention -- this column in the New York Times, which had the following line: There's something so ironic -- almost Shakespearean -- about two siblings whose viewpoints diverged so dramatically. But Peter...

Nobody cared that he had spent much of his adult life in prison for violence, or that he had once raped a seven-year-old girl. As Lady Justice Hallett (of course) reduced his prison sentence on appeal last week, she asked in some astonishment: "Do we...

Now he was expected to help break his own record. But Halberg was struggling with the revelation that a training buddy had died on the trip south from Auckland. Popular Owairaka athlete Peter Hitchens had drowned while swimming off Foxton Beach. ...

The fact that men professing to be Christian believers try to rewrite or reinterpret the laws of God does not get rid of the idea that, to be true moral laws, those laws have to be beyond the power of man to alter. That is, it has to be possible to disco

I simply dispute the assertion by our host that there is no evidence to support Christian belief. There is such evidence. An atheist in a society still governed by the Christian moral law has great personal advantages. The almost universal idea among the