Posts Categorized: Chaplaincy

“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light … could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.” – Charles Darwin Is there anything about our world that blows you away?  Perhaps the…

“Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.” – C. S. Lewis I’ve just finished reading a book by the late Antony Flew called ‘There is A God’. His philosophical arguments in favour of a naturalistic and Godless universe earned him his place as one of the world’s leading atheists for more than 50 years…

Did you know that the Bible is, ironically, the most commonly stolen book in the world? Did you know that it has been translated into well over 2000 languages across the globe, that over 100 million copies are printed each year, or that the Guinness World Records estimate it to have sold approximately 5 billion…

“How can you say that your truth is better than ours?” – Mumford and Sons, ‘I Gave You All’.  There are a handful of Mumford songs that I really like, including ‘I Gave You All’, but as much as I enjoy this song, this particular lyric highlights a genuine problem that exists in our world…

Prayer is a concept that I imagine pretty much all of us are familiar with. Yet can any one of us actually explain what it is and how it works? I know I can’t, not properly anyway. I get the idea that prayer is a way that I can communicate with God, which is what…