Science and God

CURIOUS As I see it, modern science began at the time of the Renaissance, that renewal of learning and expanding of European civilization; the discovery of printing, the discovery of the Americas, and technological advance. A thinker like Francis Bacon said “knowledge...

That Risky Bible

CURIOUS So your life as a Christian has a sense of surety and permanence and at the same it is risky. How do these things make sense together? EAGER: Remember how you started off by doubting that God has a Plan for me? CURIOUS Yes, and I still do, I guess. EAGER: Your...

A Seeker and Science

CURIOUS. When we last talked I seem to have got off on the wrong foot with you. I was not trying to hassle you, or talk you into a corner. EAGER: It was a little scary. What were you trying to do? CURIOUS My folks were people who talked much the way you do about God....

Does God have a Plan for Me?

A Conversation between EAGER and CURIOUS. EAGER:     You know, I think God has a Plan for me. CURIOUS.    What do you mean, a Plan? EAGER:     Well, He directs my life,  since I accepted the Lord Jesus as my Saviour. I see signs of God working in my life. CURIOUS.   ...

On His Birthday

Christmas Dialogue Sermon, first preached by Lesley Barclay and Graham Cotter at Trinity Church Colborne, Ontario. the song, Don’t Wait For An Angel, was written with music by Caryl Micklem and published in New Christian. The song was reprinted with author’s...

The Fool and the Comedy

About ten years ago, there appeared after a church a cake, inscribed: “Graham, 40 years a Fool for Christ!” - my fortieth anniversary of ordination! In the first letter to the Corinthians, St Paul describes the preaching of Christ crucified as a scandal...