Category Archives: Stories About 'Change of Heart'

Junkie Meets Jesus in A Trash Can

By Malgwyn | January 14, 2011

Coming to Richard Dawkins, here is another ‘Change of Heart’ story - all due to exposure to Christianity. Colin Garnett grew up in Stockport, South Manchester, in a tough working-class culture. Teenage involvement with alcohol, amphetamines and violence led to an adult heroin addiction which saw him doing time in twenty-seven prisons! But in 1993 in [...]

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The Power of Christianity: Colson’s Hero

By Malgwyn | August 25, 2009

Chuck Colson reminded his audience yesterday that it was William Wilberforce’s 250th birthday. Converted to Christianity Wilberforce thought his “change of heart” experience should lead him to leave Parliament but says Colson, “Thankfully, William Pitt, who went on to be Great Britain’s youngest prime minister, convinced him otherwise. In a letter to his dear friend, [...]

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Jesus’ Murder Squad!

By Malgwyn | August 16, 2009

I’ve been reading some bad news about what is happening to Christians in Iran  in the wake of the current political unrest. “Pressure on Iranian Christians is growing just as foreign powers are being blamed for rioting that broke out due to the electoral fraud. The argument on the influence of foreign powers is well [...]

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Dawkins & Superstition III

By Malgwyn | July 31, 2009

A Resume of Martin Luther’s Change of Heart and How We are Put Right With God
In my immediate previous posts one and two I responded to Professor Dawkins’ view of what he understands as ‘a personal experience with God’ (TGD, p. 87-92), with my own contrary views. Here I will finish with my view [...]

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Dawkins & Superstition II

By Malgwyn | July 31, 2009

In my previous post, re-Dawkins understanding of a ‘personal experience with God’ (TGD, p.87-92), I express the thought that far from superstition there is something more powerful and good going on in human experience when Christians talk about having an experience with God. (Atheist Matthew Parris recognized something inexplicable when real Christianity is observed [...]

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Dawkins & Superstition

By Malgwyn | July 24, 2009

I’ve been too long away from my atheist friend, Professor Richard Dawkins. In TGD Richard Dawkins ridicules the idea that an individual can have a personal experience with God. Picked up by Wikipedia, Dawkins uses the illustration of the Manx Shearwater to show how religious belief arises from superstition. In his younger days one of his [...]

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Dawkins V Christianity’s Transformation of Culture

By Malgwyn | May 21, 2009

I was reading this link again on my last post to Mark Earley’s comment on, End of the Spear. When I read things like this I can’t help keep coming back to Professor Dawkins’ book, The God Delusion, and to The Sunday Times Culture Magazine’s endorsement of the book (21 October 07) describing TGD as [...]

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Dawkins & “End of the Spear”

By Malgwyn | May 13, 2009

The following is an excerpt from End of The Spear by Steve Saint, Tyndale House Publishers (2005). You can get a gist of the book from reviews on Amazon. When I read things like this I instinctively think of our friend Richard Dawkins and his book, The God Delusion, a book which I confess has left [...]

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Dawkins & Christianity in China

By Malgwyn | May 12, 2009

In his review of The God Delusion, Roy Adams reminds us of what Dawkins thinks of God: “The God of the Old Testament,” he says, “is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction [the words are loaded]: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, [...]

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Dawkins and A. N. Wilson

By Malgwyn | May 4, 2009

I could identify with Wilson’s remark. “Why did I, along with so many others, become so dismissive of Christianity?”
Said, Wilson, “Like most educated people in Britain and Northern Europe (I was born in 1950), I have grown up in a culture that is overwhelmingly secular and anti-religious. The universities, broadcasters and media generally are not [...]

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