C.S. Lewis received a stunning number of letters daily - perhaps akin to the number of emails we each receive now. Lewis, unlike most of us, read them and answered them seriously and courteously.

Scenes of resurrection are common in the arts—but not common in realist fiction. Realist fiction is the telling of stories as if they were history, but resurrection requires more than the senses, more than history, more than our usual understanding of human behaviour and character.

Is Christianity childish or is the PM on track implying it provides the most mature plan our nation has got?

Brian Rosner elevates the issue of increasing consumerism and isolationism to the level of importance the Bible gives it: being greedy is the worst kind of opposition to God. It is idolatry.

Television interviewer Andrew Denton's documentary on Christian fundamentalist America has made the transition from the big screen to the box, and is slated to screen on the ABC on Monday, May 21.

Richard Dawkins is no arm-chair atheist argues Dr Greg Clarke. He is out on street seeking to convert people to atheism and his belief that evolutionary biology is the most satisfactory explanation of life.

This is a talk delivered by Dr Greg Clarke from the Centre for Apologetic Scholarship and Education, an activity of New College at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

More than anything, The God Delusion is a self-help book for those who wish to escape their religious upbringing and enter into the ‘freedom’ of unbelief.

Is God on your my side, my side, no-one’s side, or everyone’s side? And how can you tell? Visit America and find out, with the help of your favourite TV host, Andrew Denton!

Australian values are turning out to be one of the hottest political potatoes of this Spring. But there may be a collision ahead for Christians. Which comes first: religious freedom or common values?

Greg Clarke, the author of Is it worth believing? The spiritual challenge of the Da Vinci Code and http://www.challengingdavinci.com has produced a briefing for Christians keen to start DVC conversations. It includes ready-to-print resources to get people thinking...

That would be a tough call to make of a novelist, whose profession is all about making up stories! But where The Da Vinci Code is perhaps a bit unfair with its readers is in blurring the line between fact and fiction. We like reading both history and fiction, but we like to be sure which is which.

We Christians are not to worship idols, and that means rock stars, too. But it doesn’t mean we can’t listen to them, enjoy them, and sometimes even admire them – especially when they deserve it. U2’s Bono is that rare celebrity who seems to have become more, rather than less, admirable over time.

A sample of the 2005 lectures from the Centre for Apologetic Scholarship and Education.

A Credible Jesus asks the question, 'Which is the most believable portrait of Jesus?' and includes presentations from:

- Dr Greg Clarke on the Jesus of the Da Vinci Code
- Dr Chris Forbes on the Jesus of contemporary scholarship
- Dr Peter Bolt on the Jesus of the Gospels

As Lucy approaches the wardrobe in the film of C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the camera lingers on a dying fly on the window sill. I had wondered why the fly received a three second close-up, but then forgot all about it until Ivan Head, Warden of St Paul’s College at Sydney University, sent me his intriguing paper.

Dear readers, unless you have enjoyed the last 11 of Lemony Snicket’s books you should probably just stop reading now. As we are warned every time we pick up one of these sorry tales, there is no point getting started on them if you prefer your endings to be happy (your middles and beginnings, too). But if, like me, you are up to date with the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, I’m telling you now; read Book 12, The Penultimate Peril!

For the most godless country on earth, we seem to be talking about Jesus a lot. Now, along comes John Dickson with a book that has ‘essential summer reading’ written all over it.

Christians must use all three weapons at their disposal – defence, attack and attraction – if they are to speak to a very wary secular culture, argues DR GREG CLARKE, the director for the Centre for Apologetic Scholarship and Education (CASE).

Jesus said the poor will always be with us, so where does that leave Christian support of Live8? At one level, a Christian could view such activity as Babylonian – an attempt to build heaven on earth. But is it?

The Harry Potter series has two enduring interests: the battle between good and evil, and the education of young Harry. What is going to happen, and what sort of person will Harry be at the end of it all? In the second-last book of the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, matters develop satisfyingly in both areas, and leave us ready and anxious for the final volume in which, it is assumed and had better be the case, All Will Be Revealed.

Lord of the Rings devotees gathered at New College to explore a theological perspective on Tolkien’s trilogy and the recent film treatments.

There is an art to spectating cricket. Channel 9 has been developing this art on TV for many seasons. The best new segment this year has to be the ‘Crackin’ Cricket Heroes’ competition. I love the amateur video footage of great moments in backyard cricket, under 10s finals on concrete pitches and Uncle Ken taking a blinder in the slips.