Book: Australian Book of Atheism due for December 2010
"The Australian Book of Atheism aims to change that, gathering together an impressive collection of essays from pre-eminent Australian atheist, rationalist, secular, humanist, and skeptic thinkers, many of whom participated in the 2010 Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne." [from the publisher Scribe Publications]
Also I'm one of the contributors with an article on Progressive Christianity. Alex McCullie
Course 2011: Making Sense of the World
Comparison of four world-views attempting to make sense of the world: 'What is there?: ' (1) Naturalism ('physical world'), (2) Evangelical Christianity ('divine organiser') and 'What do I know?': (1) Modernism ('objective truth'), (2) Post-Modernism ('personal truths').
Five night course at Council of Adult Education, Melbourne CBD, Australia planned for February 2011.
Course 2011: Historical Jesus
Planned for April 2011 Council of Adult Education, Melbourne CBD, Australia. Six night course reviewing the quest to find the historical Jesus. We shall consider (1) non-Christian sources; (2) the Gospels; (3) methods of historical research; (4) social conditions in early Palestine; (5) popular Jesus profiles.
Presentation: Science – the Quest for Objectivity July 2011
Talk proposed for July 2011 for Sofia in Melbourne, where I'll question that science is simply the business for finding objective truths.
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