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April 2021

April 27, 2021

What Information Do We Find Plausible?

Why we believe certain things is a fascinating question. Why we don't believe in certain...

April 21, 2021

The New, Improved Edition of “Spirituality of the Cross”

The third edition of my most popular and impactful book, "Spirituality of the Cross," has...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

The Cross of Christ Includes Our Sufferings Too

The Bible says much about crosses: Christ's cross and the crosses that we bear. And...

December 2020

December 28, 2020

Books of the Year

Suggestions for spending the Amazon gift cards that you got for Christmas: Pick out some...

December 11, 2020

The Fine-tuning of the Universe So Objects Can Exist

You are probably familiar with the concept that the universe is "fine-tuned" for life, that...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

Atheodicy: The Problem of Evil without God

"Theodicy" deals with the Problem of Evil, how to reconcile the reality of evil and...

September 2020

September 22, 2020

“The Ultimate Showdown between the Power of Man and the Power of God”

Historian Tom Holland argues that the major influence on Western civilization was not ancient Greece...

May 2020

May 15, 2020

Weird Christianity

Some Christians, particularly younger adults, are reacting against secularism and contemporary Christianity by embracing "anti-modern"...

April 2020

April 15, 2020

A Creedal Testimony from Less Than Five Years after Jesus’ Resurrection

Scholars have identified a creedal testimony to the atoning death and resurrection of Jesus that...

April 03, 2020

Our Inability to Sit in a Quiet Room Alone

As the days of coronavirus quarantine turn into weeks and the prospect of months, we...

March 2020

March 26, 2020

Will Heaven Be Boring?

In Edward Young's "Night Thoughts," an unusual poetic meditation on death, the poet turns around...

February 2020

February 25, 2020

Serious Questions but Trivial Answers

People who have left Christianity often tell about how, in their church-going days, they had...

January 2020

January 28, 2020

My New Book on Secularism

My new book from Crossway has been released. It's entitled "Post-Christian: A Guide to Contemporary...

January 20, 2020

Is God’s Power Intrinsically Oppressive?

If power and privilege are always oppressive, as postmodern critical theorists maintain, then God, whose...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

Responding to Criticisms of Christianity

Christianity has brought much good to the world, but the church also has much to...

August 2019

August 28, 2019

Giving Up on Darwin

David Gelertner--a mathematician, an important computer scientist, a full professor at Yale--has announced that he...

August 26, 2019

On Sex and Boundaries

Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias offered a terrific answer to questions about sexual morality. He was...

July 2019

July 26, 2019

The Shroud of Turin Is Not a Medieval Hoax After All?

The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth long venerated as the burial shroud of...

July 22, 2019

Traditionalism as Transgression

Many young adults, artists, and intellectuals feel a need to rebel against the dominant society. ...

April 2019

April 04, 2019

How the Left Can Help You Be Religious

Writer and radio host Dennis Prager has written a hilarious--but also dead serious--essay entitled How the...

December 2018

December 03, 2018

Advent and the Problem of Evil

Fleming Rutledge reminds us that Advent is not primarily about the baby Jesus. Rather its...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

The Growing Need for Exorcisms

Following up with our recent post on exorcism, The Atlantic--which is far from being a Christian or...

November 01, 2018

From Confusion to Clarity about Christianity

Have you noticed when talking to non-Christians that often what they object to is...

September 2018

September 06, 2018

That Life & the Universe Cannot Be Mindless Accidents

I came across this interesting piece in Touchstone from a couple of years ago. It's by software...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

In Defense of Proselytizing

Fellow Patheos blogger Mark Driscoll has written a long and thoughtful post on the teaching...

July 26, 2018

Saint G. K. Chesterton?

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a truly great Christian author. He was a Christian apologist who...

April 2018

April 20, 2018

An Ancient Description of the Early Christians

An article at Aleteia entitled This is How Christians Lived in the 2nd Century by...

March 2018

March 23, 2018

Nietzsche’s Critique of the New Atheists

Traditional atheists argue that God does not exist. The "new atheists" employ a moral argument...

December 2017

December 20, 2017

The Newly Discovered “Christmas Sermon for Pagans” by C. S. Lewis

The scholar Stephanie R. Derrick tells about discovering two previously unknown essays by C. S....

November 2017

November 16, 2017

Which Doctrines Must Be “Reasonable”?

Which do you trust more, God’s Word or your own understanding? In whom do you...