Roundup: Inclusiveness, same-sex marriage, spirituality, liberal Christianity, atheists and suffering

The case against legalising same-sex marriage

They say they are not against homosexuals. Nor are they bigots, or religious zealots or people hankering after a bygone era. What they are against is same-sex marriage.

Church Life Survey confirms Uniting value

It’s part of who we are as a church. We all know it. Now the stats prove it!

Is religion dying – or reinventing?

For decades, Americans have been turning toward spirituality as a protest vote against conventional religion.

Can liberal Christianity be saved?

Perhaps they should pause, amid their frantic renovations, and consider not just what they would change about historic Christianity, but what they would defend and offer uncompromisingly to the world.

Evil, the New Atheism, and the God of the Trinity

How do we account not only for the tens of thousands of years of human history prior to Christ, and indeed prior to Abraham, but also for the millions of years of sentient life on this planet, life that has seemingly from the start been subject to pain, suffering, death, decay, predation, and parasitism?