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Pulse Magazine – Issue 10

16 Feb 2012

Open publication - Free publishing - More apologetics Not able to view magazine using Adobe Flash? Oh dear! Not a problem though, download a PDF version for viewing at your leisure. © for RZIM Europe, 2012. | Permalink | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: pdf, PDF download, Pulse, pulse issue 10 We hope you're enjoying these [...] Read article

“How do I answer that?” RZIM Europe Training Day, 24 March (Bedford)

14 Feb 2012

Many Christians feel a strong desire to communicate the gospel to their non-believing friends, but few feel equipped or confident to do so. Our society is often hostile to the church and it can be difficult to know how best to approach some of the strong objections that people have about faith. What do we [...] Read article

Articles of faith

05 Feb 2012

Following the memorial service for John Stott in St Paul’s Cathedral on 13th January 2012, Michael Ramsden wrote this appreciation which appeared in The Times’ Religion Correspondent Ruth Gledhill’s Articles of Faith page. It is rare for the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London and almost every other senior member of the [...] Read article

OCCA in the media headline

02 Feb 2012

Songs of Praise this Sunday For the start of Lent, Songs of Praise came to Oxford to interview Dr Sharon Dirckx, tutor at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, on the subject of temptation. The programme will be broadcast at 4:30pm on Sunday 19th February. For further information about the show click here.     [...] Read article

Summer School 2012 – IMAGO DEI: dignified, degraded or redeemed

01 Dec 2011

The belief that people are made in the image of God has been responsible for shaping humanity and civilization for centuries. But when these “foundations are destroyed what should the righteous do?” (Psalms 11:2) What happens when the image of God is erased from the definition of mankind? If the value of humanity can no [...] Read article

Pulse Magazine – Issue 9

17 Oct 2011

Welcome to the ninth issue of Pulse, the apologetics magazine published by our ministry. This includes all the latest information about RZIM Europe and the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, as well as articles on evangelism and apologetics, details about training opportunities and much more. Read article

Aren’t religions all the same?

14 Oct 2011

We live in a context of spiritual longing. Many people are searching for that which will satisfy an inner craving for meaning and significance. The artist Damian Hirst recently said this: “Why do I feel so important when I’m not? Nothing is important and everything is important. I do not know why I am here [...] Read article

How can you say that there is a good God of love when…..?

20 Sep 2011

People regularly ask that question when a massive catastrophe like the Japanese earthquake happens, but also in cases of individual tragedy, such as the young Mum dying of cancer and leaving her children motherless. The Christian says in response to that question: believing in a good God does not mean that we believe in a [...] Read article

Meet Our Associates – Kosta Milkov

04 Aug 2011

Kosta Milkov has recently finished a doctorate in Patristic Theology at the University of Oxford. Kosta and his wife, Nada, currently run the Balkan Institute for Faith and Culture (BIFC). He is a visiting lecturer of theology at Evangelical Theological Seminary, Osijek, Croatia, a Senior Associate of RZIM Europe and an ordained minister in the Evangelical Church in Macedonia. Kosta, Nada and their daughter Gabriela live in Skopje, Macedonia. Read article

Making History: The “war” between Science and Religion

29 Jul 2011

If you ask many people today what they think about science’s relationship to religion, you are likely to be told that the two have been in conflict for a very long time. There was the trial of Galileo by the Inquisition, for example, the debate between Wilberforce and Huxley, and there is still an on-going dispute over the teaching of evolution in American schools. These usual suspects may be trotted out whenever this topic is mentioned, but are events such as these really typical of the history of science as a whole? Contrary to the impression given by some commentators, the conflict thesis between science and religion is one that has been discredited in academic circles for some time. The rise of science in the West was, of course, a very complicated affair in which many different factors played a part. There were certainly inevitable points of tension, but this does detract from the fact that Europe was a largely Christian continent in which religious individuals and institutions inevitably played a central role in the changes that occurred. Read article