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January 2016

January 12, 2016

Reason is Not Skepticism.

Sometimes atheists and agnostics who are non-academics* call themselves skeptics, but they really should not. They...

December 2015

December 22, 2015

Christmas is a Reason to be Christian or Why I am Not an Atheist, Pagan, or Muslim

Respectful disagreement is possible, even about religion. Christmas is why I believe this to be...

December 17, 2015

This is the Book You Are Looking For

And so if you are shopping for Christmas and are looking for a book that...

December 14, 2015

Jar Jar and Santa didn’t make it to the Creche: Little Known People of Christmas (Part III/IV)

There is no possible world where Jar Jar Binks makes it to Bethlehem. This is...

November 2015

November 28, 2015

Gentle Happiness

The world is hurting, but we cannot always be looking outward. I have hurts, death in...

October 2015

October 25, 2015

Defying our Experience

I keep a prayer journal ever since JP Moreland, philosopher and mentor, pointed out it...

October 13, 2015

Why Do Smart Atheists Believe Dumb Things?

At any point when I engage with village atheists (not professional philosophers) my students will...

October 11, 2015

We are not Sims: We are Free

When I was younger, I loved playing "simulation" games. You could pretend to build an...

October 05, 2015

Thank God

"Isn't God narcissistic? If I don't praise Him, I go to Hell." This is a...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Can you be moral without God?

God might be helpful in living a moral life by telling you when you are...

June 25, 2015

Money is Made: Running for President and Making Christian Movies

Why do hopeless candidates run for President? For some, it is obviously ego. Ever since...

June 15, 2015

I know God exists.

It is an odd thing to be called on to defend something you think you...

May 2015

May 01, 2015

If I Should Die Before I Wake . . .

Once when holding a child that had died, I prayed for the child, for my...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Don’t Just Trust Theists: Five Characteristics of Regimes That Will Go Bad

History shows that there has never been an atheist# regime that was not horrific. There...

April 28, 2015

Anti-Theists are Sure They Will Not Kill You This Time

Anti-theists are sending Christians to labor camps in China and killing us in North Korea,...

April 26, 2015

He Saw Hitler: Find God’s Man in Odd Places and Listen

Human history would be different if humans learned to find the people that know what...

February 2015

February 12, 2015

Polytheism is true, so Reject Polytheism

Silly atheist arguments are pretty common, but a champion in the category must be: "You...

February 05, 2015

Hallelujah! This is Not A Christmas Post

I have seen the future and it is good. I can be jolly even though...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

Learning from Fiction: What is wrong with fundamentalists and atheists?

The man who cannot learn from fiction because it is not literally true is like...

January 28, 2015

On God’s Command to Kill All the Canaanites

There are many decent responses to the old "problem:" how could a good God command...

January 17, 2015

In Which I Try to Be Prudent, But May Fail

Hunter Baker is a good man, a thoughtful man, a Christian, and is convinced that...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

Nothing Comes from Nothing

Maria was not a Problem. Maria was right. Sound of Music is not the source of...

April 2014

April 07, 2014

Knowing Pain, Growing in Pain

Christianity reserves all sexuality to the act of marriage, but not everyone can get married in the...

April 04, 2014

Letters to William: On God (Part II)

Dear William, Every kid that experiences God discovers, with joy, that most other people have...

April 01, 2014

Letters to William: On God (Part 1)

Dear William, You have kindly let me share our correspondence with other people (at least...