Living in the Woods

TALK - 'Living in the Woods' is how Brett Nicholls describes where he resides in the middle space of the huge arc of belief between absolute religious certainty at the one end and unbelief at the other end.

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The Lord's Prayer

TALK - 'Words matter' is how Iain Scorgie starts the exploration of the fascinating story of The Lord's Prayer, the hymn of hope, and how its meaning changes in Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke.

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The Trump thump

ARTICLE - Following the US presidential election, Professor John Haldane, looks at what Donald Trump's White House victory says about 'liberal Christianity'.

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The inner journey

VIDEO -  In a preview to his lecture at Cairns on November 17, 2016, Scott McKenna explains why the word 'God' can be unhelpful because it too readily implies an external, supernatural being.

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Science and faith

VIDEO - Professor Ken McColl, previews the first of the 2016/17 Thinking Allowed lecture series, in which he draws remarkable comparisons between the evolution of faith and advances in medical science.

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Faith in flux

VIDEO - Faith and religion are constantly evolving. But is the church really keeping pace with the changes?  Andrew Frater examines the evidence. 

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Truth and myth

ARTICLE - Professor Helen Bond questions whether you have to believe literally what the Bible says in order to be a Christian

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Fingertip faith

ARTICLE - Why a church that insists on clinging to the past has turned Ian McKerron into a 'fingertip' Christian with a tenuous grip on faith.

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Religious tolerance

ARTICLE - A new tyranny threatens to strangle the roots of freedom and establish orthodoxies no less intolerant than those of the past, says Professor John Haldane

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Paradigm shifts

ARTICLE -  When religion claims a monopoly on truth, dangerous fundamentalism is the result with often terrible consequences, says Andrew Frater

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Kirk's future

ARTICLE - What future for a declining Church of Scotland? Harry Reid argues the solution is sublimely simple: Let each congregation go its own way.

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Andrew Frater

ARTICLE - Let's not sacrifice free thinking and open debate on the altar of fundamentalism, says Andrew Frater

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ARTICLE - There have been a number of attempts in the past in the quest for the historical Jesus. Where have these attempts led us? David Hamilton goes in search of Jesus.

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ARTICLE - For the individual, a successful and fulfilling life seems to depend very much on having community support when times are hard. Seith Ireland develops this theme in relation to his experience of dealing with offenders in court.

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VIDEO - Materialism is imposing on society a set of values that ultimately make people unhappy. These values are constantly coming at us from the media, politics and elsewhere. Carol Craig explored this theme in her Thinking Allowed lecture.

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VIDEO - There has never been one truth, despite what people claim. Theological ideas have waxed and waned through history, taking conflicting turns with changing leaders, worldviews and political forces. Val Webb discusses where we go from here in her Thinking Allowed lecture.

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