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    Where Have All the Atheists Gone?

    Matthew Hosier  |  Sat 8 June 2019   You’ve got to feel sorry for atheists. They are such a beleaguered minority, and it is such a difficult position to hold with consistency. Read more
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    Basic Instincts, Changing Habits

    Matthew Hosier  |  Fri 10 May 2019   One of the characteristics of our era is to judge the past by the standards of the present: this has been especially the case in the verdicts – legal and social –... Read more
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    Pushing our Luck

    Matthew Hosier  |  Thu 9 May 2019   We (well, Andrew) have not been very good at political predictions on Think, but here goes. As the 'probably' has now become 'certainly' and two weeks today the UK will... Read more
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    A Book to Read and Give Away

    Matthew Hosier  |  Mon 6 May 2019   The questions non-believers ask of Christianity tend to be predictable and repeated: what about suffering? what about science? what about sex? The way in which those... Read more
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    The Gift of Procreation

    Matthew Hosier  |  Fri 3 May 2019   Last Saturday I took a two-hour Q&A session on ethics at a local training event: ask whatever you like and I’ll try and take a swing at it. Predictably, questions... Read more
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    Why We Need Philosophers

    Matthew Hosier  |  Thu 2 May 2019   Today there are local elections in much of the UK and in three weeks’ time we will again (probably) go to the polls to vote in the European elections. We haven’t... Read more
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    More than a Metaphor

    Matthew Hosier  |  Fri 19 April 2019   It is not difficult to find metaphor in the burning of Notre Dame. Read more
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    Resistance Is Not Futile

    Matthew Hosier  |  Thu 11 April 2019   I got back from a trip to the US today and as I waited to be allowed off the plane scrolled through the BBC news feed. Just behind the arrest of Julian Assange and the... Read more
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    25 Years of Grace

    Matthew Hosier  |  Wed 3 April 2019   Yesterday Mrs Hosier & I celebrated being married for 25 years. April 2nd 1994 was a typically British Easter Saturday, in which we seemed to have all the seasons thrown... Read more
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    A Sure Foundation

    Matthew Hosier  |  Fri 22 March 2019  
    The narration of the facts is history; the narration of the facts with the meaning of the facts is doctrine. “Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and...
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