From the leader's blog:

"we believe that God’s word should set the agenda for what we teach, not our personal circumstances"

Tags: Bible, The Plant

The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you may have to scroll down a bit to find the exact part...).

The christian worldview is something that can be pretty offensive if you understand it correctly. It challenges pretty much everything you think is right and then goes further to bring you into an amazing dependent relationship with the Almighty through His son Jesus.

This is partly why christians can get singled out occasionally, and the recent NUS/British Airways debates were examples of this. There are always other reasons combined - not least issues of maintaining a sense of equality in the public arena. I have no problem with respecting the free will of my neighbour, but these examples went too far in terms of clipping the conscience of thinking christians.

I drew this one during an art mock exam cover lesson at school. I drew it on very rough paper that had none of the tidiness of the regular bristol board that I use for finals. The two figures are based (visually) on a couple of the students who were there.

I meant to dedicate this to Pardeep Bhogal but didn't get around to it.

Tags: NUS, British Airways, Discrimination, Jesus, Work

The Bible epilogue text can be found here (you may have to scroll down a bit to find the exact part...).

March of the Penguins had come out and was doing very well with the christian cinema-going public. I have a number of friends who don't agree with the christian worldview and one thing I am quite keen on is trying to explain my perspective in the most effective way possible. This strip picks up on my unease with the so-called 'intelligent design' debate. Personally I think that it isn't the best way of 'selling' the christian faith because nothing gets there better than talking about Jesus. It has some value to reflect on good things in the world around us (and this is undoubtedly a strong point in the film) but to use it for some mildly political christian point is (to me) a bit of a shame.

I used the Balaam's Donkey idea of a talking animal here, and the pengui-logue reinforces it.

This is a good example of the EN editor's editorial insight. John Benton has occasionally stepped in to encourage me in one direction or another. On this strip he later commented on the need to avoid criticising christians, which is a good thing. My original 'pitch' for this strip was to do something jokey about church culture, but he came back to me with the better idea of taking a satirical view of the non-christian world - which has proven to be be a much more healthy exercise as I have been pushed to reflect on the world outside the church and how it does/does not relate to the perspective in the Bible. A good editor is a life-saver.

Tags: Film, Evangelism, Wisdom, apologetics, Evolution, atheism