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November 2017

November 13, 2017

“The Universe Should Not Actually Exist”

According to contemporary physics, at the "Big Bang" at which the universe came into existence,...

October 2017

October 26, 2017

Eyewitnesses to Jesus: The Testimony of Papias

Scot McKnight points us to a quotation from Papias, a first century Christian, who tells...

October 03, 2017

“Religion Is More Like Sex Than School”

Research is showing that religion is not just a learned behavior or intellectual assent to...

May 2017

May 18, 2017

5 more arguments for the existence of God

St. Thomas Aquinas famously formulated 5 arguments for the existence of God. Robert H. Nelson...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Plantinga wins Templeton Prize

Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga has won the Templeton Prize for contributions to religion. Plantinga has...

April 20, 2017

Hank Hanegraff, the Bible Answer Man, joins the Orthodox Church

Hank Hanegraff, who hosts the Bible Answer Man radio show and who operates the Christian...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

C. S. Lewis, atheist

C. S. Lewis, one of the foremost Christian apologists, had been for 15 years a convinced...

January 23, 2017

Mathematical proof of God’s existence?

The great mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel, who died in 1978, left behind a series...

December 2016

December 21, 2016

A book on why we should trust the Bible

There are four more shopping days until Christmas, time (especially if you have Amazon Prime...

October 2016

October 29, 2016

Subverting people’s need to constantly justify themselves

In the discussion of Michael Lockwood's new book The Unholy Trinity: Martin Luther against the Idol...

October 27, 2016

Reaching today’s idolaters of the self

How do you proclaim the forgiveness of sins to someone who doesn't think he has...

September 2016

September 28, 2016

Don’t give them the Gospel?

We often assume that if we could only find the right way to reach those...

October 2015

October 09, 2015

The numinous in religious experience

A couple of years ago, I blogged about the Numinous, that sense of uncanny awe...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

Reviews of “Where Christ Is Present”

More shameless promotion of the new book I edited with John Warwick Montgomery, Where Christ...

June 15, 2015

Our new book: Where Christ Is Present

I have collaborated with John Warwick Montgomery in editing and contributing to a new book...

March 2015

March 11, 2015

Liberal and Illiberal Atheists

The London Guardian has published a fascinating in-depth article about atheism, its history and its...

February 2015

February 09, 2015

Do you believe in Mother?

A parable/thought experiment from the Hungarian writer Útmutató a Léleknek: In a mother’s womb were...

January 2015

January 15, 2015

A “heavenly tourist” takes back his claims

There are a number of books in the genre of what has been called "Heavenly...

December 2014

December 04, 2014

My new book on the imagination

I have published a new book, one that I collaborated on with Matt Ristuccia, an...

October 2014

October 10, 2014

Attraction, not argument

Michael Brendan Dougherty discusses the doom and gloom many Christians feel about the church's prospects...

August 2014

August 11, 2014

The political roots of atheism

Atheists are always invoking science, but notice how often their arguments and rhetoric use political...

July 2014

July 07, 2014

Igniting a second Reformation

Check out this new website, which, in turn is a forum for a new ministry...

June 2014

June 10, 2014

An example of imaginative apologetics

Mathew Block asks me to give an example of imaginative apologetics. So I talk about...

June 09, 2014

Imaginative Apologetics

From my interview with Mathew Block, in which we discuss "imaginative apologetics." CL: This ties...

June 06, 2014

Imaginative obstacles to the faith

In the interview with Mathew Block, we got into the role of the imagination in...

May 2014

May 05, 2014

Is Jesus just a legend?

Jesus must be either who He said He was--the Son of God--or He must have...

March 2014

March 03, 2014

How George Herbert’s poetry converted an atheist

I throw out opinions on all kinds of topics, but my real area of expertise...

December 2013

December 02, 2013

When Christianity comes across as dull

The redoubtable Anthony Sacramone tells about how he was influenced--indeed, evangelized--by C. S. Lewis. Mr....

August 2013

August 16, 2013

Lack of belief as an identity

Brendan O'Neill himself does not believe in God, but he has written a piece entitled...

August 09, 2013

Is God different than we are?: The ontological controversy

Consider this quote from Timothy George, in our recent Christianity without the Atonement post: The problem...