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The framework we are using divides all of reality (like Caesar divided Gaul) into three parts: physical, social and spiritual. This is primarily because each area requires a distinct set of tools and disciplines.

Universal Basic Income

UBI is a regular, unconditional payment given to everyone on a regular basis, perhaps every month.

Money

There is something that everybody certainly believes in, uses most days, and yet it is purely an artifact of reasoning and is nothing more than an abstraction. It appears in the core of every business and appears within every transaction. It determ

Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a country with several longstanding problems; in the past half century, interventions by other nations have failed to address these problems, and sometimes made them worse.

World Affairs

Links to pieces about world affairs, currently written from a UK perspective, as that is where our current members are based.

Morality is simply a useful fiction

Some people believe that morality is not real, but simply a myth – a useful fiction. According to this perspective, people invented morality as a tool to help society function, in much the same way that we invented money.

Kinetic Energy

The flywheel is a piece of old technology, used to store and move energy, which appears in a surprising number of places.

What the Bible Says

We wish to start by recognizing that we do not yet completely understand the Bible, and by recognizing that there is a large amount of material available to help us come to a better, more complete and more accurate understanding of it, based on evide

Morality: An Introduction

Morality is a large and difficult subject, so we are not going to attempt to summarize it here: the aim of this article is to set out an overview of the subject, and describe the territory in a way which will help us to talk usefully about morality w

Searching for Truth

The search for truth involves techniques and disciplines which vary between the different areas: the search for truth in a research lab follows one set of rules, in a law court it follows another. But it is always a human activity, and the same basic

The Bible

A good place to start when seeking to understand the Bible is this video by Joel Baden: The Bible Doesn't Say What You Think it Does.

Rights and Obligations

One of the significant developments of the past century is the development of human rights. But it is arguable that concentrating on human rights, while it has produced a great amount of good, has been a side-track from a more productive perspective

Human Identity

What does it mean to be human? People have discussed and argued about this for a long time. It is of general interest, but it also plays a significant part in shaping our understanding of other significant issues.

Freedom and Responsibility

Freedom is a difficult concept. You can't have complete freedom, and you would not want it anyway: you want some freedoms to be restricted, so that you can enjoy other freedoms. Some freedoms should be restricted to avoid harm - to avoid harming othe

Christianity: From the Ground Up

The best way to understand the Christian faith is from the perspective of the founder, Jesus. The next best way is from the perspectives of the first Christians, who knew Him personally.

Christianity: the Sovereignty of God

Augustine thought that God was all-powerful, that everything happens because God wants it to. But the Bible is full of stories, from the Garden of Eden onward, which show very clearly that much of what happens is not God's will.

Secularism

The basic meaning of secularism is the belief that the state should operate separately from religion.

Humanism

There are many forms of Humanism.

Transport

Our transport urgently needs to become carbon-neutral and much more energy efficient

Christianity

The plan here is to distinguish between the details which only Christians are interested in, and focus mainly on the Christian faith from the perspective of Jesus, using only language which makes sense to people outside the church.

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