With many societies confused about whether Christmas is, or should be, a Christian celebration, here are some suggested reasons why it really does matter what you think of Jesus at this time of year.

He’s too famous to ignore

As a celebrity, there isn’t anyone who comes close to Jesus. He is the ultimate rags to riches story. He was born in poverty to an unmarried mother, raised in a trade (carpentry, they say), but he struck everyone around him

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Mike takes a look at a book which traces the history of an idea—an idea concerning the course of human history in the light of biblical prophecy about the end times.

As the recent war in Lebanon was unfolding, BBC news noted the arrival of 3400 Christians in Washington for the specific purpose of lobbying the US government to support the state of Israel. The effort was planned long before the conflict between Israel and Lebanon erupted and formed

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Andrew Bain examines John Rawls’s idea of justice in a political society and shows how it’s not so just

John Rawls has been one of the most influential voices in discussion and debate about the shape of liberal democracy over the past 40 years. Best known for his two lengthiest works, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993), several of Rawls’s insights are, for most contributors to political discussion, so pervasive as to form

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