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Recently there has been a flurry of books from the “New Atheists.” Such figures as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have been holding forth to state . . . well, not anything new. The reason there is nothing new to say is that there cannot, by

The apostle Paul had his detractors, and some of the worst were those who claimed he taught, “Why not do evil that good may come?” Paul’s verdict on these people was blunt: “Their condemnation is deserved” (Romans 3:8).  Few things were more contemptible to Paul than saying “good ends justify evil

“Whereto serves mercy, but to confront the visage of offence?” asks Portia in The Merchant of Venice. It’s a good question and one which most of us don’t really think about these days. That’s because, increasingly, we are a culture that only has “mercy” on people who “couldn’t help it”