Many Christian Unions organise a series of Lunchbars, engaging with a variety of issues and students, and increasing numbers as one successful event can advertise the following one. But what makes a good Lunchbar series? Here are three types to consider. The ‘Weekly Regular’, the ‘Cluster’ and the ‘Events Week’. Some smaller CUs do a …
Relevance and Punch. 1. What are your friends’ roadblocks to faith? What if everyone in your CU asked one non-Christian friend… What stops you believing? If you could have one question answered in a Lunchbar, what would it be? Gather a wonderful collection of very relevant Lunchbar issues, and then you’ll need to choose which …
This is an edited transcript of Tim Keller’s talk ‘How The Gospel Changes Our Apologetic‘. Yes, it is incredibly long, but so is Tolstoy’s War and Peace and, you know what, I don’t mind the comparison. What is apologetics? Apologetics is an answer to the ‘why question’ after you’ve already given people an answer to …
I was stretched out on the sofa, reading the introduction to ‘The Essential C.S. Lewis’, and musing about whether Lewis was right to appeal to reason and the imagination in his apologetics. Given the impact he had and continues to have (through his books, and also through current figures like Tim Keller who follow his …
Once upon a time there were three little pigs, called Pig, Bud and Coz. Sociologists considered them Generation-Y pigs, born after 1982, and these pigs understood their lives through the lens of a ‘happy midi-narrative’. They didn’t believe in meta-narratives (like the Enlightenment’s story of progress or the Christian story of redemption), but they did …
