Curious Christian

Christian apologetics is often understood as the defence of truth claims through evidence, argument, and reason. While truth is essential, the New Testament presents a fuller vision of Christ’s ministry through his threefold office as Prophet, Priest, and King. These offices reveal not only what Christ does, but how the church bears witness to him in the world. Apologetic...

Spend enough time in online discussions about Christianity and you’ll notice a pattern. Many critiques keep returning to Genesis and the first few books of the Bible. Creation, the Great Flood, the Tower of Babel, the laws of Leviticus, and the conquest of Canaan become the lens through which the entire faith is judged. These are important texts, and Christians shouldn’t ...

When we encounter our own brokenness, we often move towards one of two extremes. Some of us are overwhelmed by shame, carrying a sense that our failures define us and that we are somehow beyond repair. Others move in the opposite direction, protecting our self-image by minimising our faults, excusing our actions, or focusing more readily on the failures of others. These r...

When I walk through the bush, it’s hard not to notice how everything depends on everything else. Trees rely on fungi. Insects pollinate flowers. Birds disperse seeds. Rivers shape forests, and forests shape rivers. Even we become who we are through our relationships with other people. It raises a deeper question: is this interconnectedness simply a feature of nature, or d...

I find it ironic that people speak of Christianity defending “Western civilisation” from Islam when both religions were born in the Near East, both transformed Europe, and both have always been larger than any one civilisation. The language says more about contemporary identity politics than about actual history.

To be clear, this is not an argument that Christi...