Some time around the publication of Richard Dawkin’s bestselling The God Delusion, it became impossible to go to the pub without a heathen friend launching into an argument about how demonstrably wicked religion is. I used to argue back, but now I don’t. I’ve come to the conclusion that those...

BIBLE MEDITATION: "But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." James 1:22 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Several years ago, the investment firm of E. F. Hutton had a slogan, "When E. F. Hutton talks, everyone listens." If only people had this respect and reverence for God and...

Pure Land Buddhism is an interesting religion. Its legendary founder, if founder is the right term, was a primordial being called Amida who, after millennia of austerity and meditation, achieved Buddhahood and forced the cosmos to grant him two wishes. His first wish was to be granted his own...