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August 2013

August 05, 2013

Why there is only one way to salvation

Once again I see on the LCMS website in the "View from Here" feature an...

July 2013

July 05, 2013

Christian apologist in the news

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a remarkably sympathetic article on William Lane Craig, the...

June 2013

June 04, 2013

The Numinous

Many years ago, I read The Idea of the Holy by the Lutheran phenomenologist Rudolph...

February 2013

February 07, 2013

7 rules that Christians must break

Rev. Jonathan Fisk, the young pastor known for his lively Worldview Everlasting videos, has published...

November 2012

November 26, 2012

If materialism is wrong, what can replace it?

Alvin Plantinga is surely one of the best living philosophers. He is also an evangelical...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

Lampooning the Jesus’ wife hype

The inimitable Hans Fiene at Lutheran Satire on the Jesus' wife kerfluffle and, more generally,...

September 21, 2012

Plantinga on Science, Naturalism, and Faith

Alvin Plantinga is a highly-respected philosopher, respected even by those who disagree with him. An...

August 2012

August 16, 2012

FAQs on Christianity

Frank J. Fleming has posted a tongue-in-cheek set of FAQs on Christianity for today's secularists...

August 15, 2012

The new new atheists

The old atheists deny that God exists. The new atheists deny that God is good...

August 08, 2012

How Quantum Physics refutes materialism

Physics professor Stephen M. Barr explains how quantum physics makes the world view of materialism--the...

June 2012

June 22, 2012

Moving an atheism blog

Leah Libresco has been running one of the atheism blogs at the pan-religion site Patheos,...

April 2012

April 12, 2012

I’m speaking at an online apologetics conference

Do you like to go to conferences--say, a big conference on apologetics--but don't have the...

March 2012

March 23, 2012

Jesus notebooks?

Bible scholars, including those of the conservative variety, often talk about an oral tradition and...

March 15, 2012

If you died tonight, do you know you would go to heaven? Or do you not care?

"If you were to die tonight, do you know for sure that you would go...

March 02, 2012

The six kinds of agnosticism

David Swindle, a self-described "agnostic theist" describes six different kinds of agnosticism. Click here for...

December 2011

December 21, 2011

The “God particle”

Michael Gerson gives the most lucid explanation I have found for what the Higgs boson--a.k.a....

December 21, 2011

The true contrarian

Aaron Lewis, who hung out a couple of times with Christopher Hitchens, pointed out that...

December 19, 2011

The death of Christians’ favorite atheist

Christopher Hitchens, one of the "new atheists," has died of cancer at age 62. An iconoclast...

October 2011

October 05, 2011

Radical thinker praises Christianity

Jurgen Habermas is a prominent European intellectual--an influential neo-Marxist, a postmodernist critic, and more recently...

September 2011

September 02, 2011

Party our way into extinction!

People who oppose abortion like to call themselves "pro-life." Proponents of abortion object to that term,...

July 2011

July 19, 2011

Clarifying the cosmological argument

Philosopher Edward Feser clears us misconceptions about the cosmological argument for the existence of God:...

June 2011

June 22, 2011

“Is” vs. “Should”

Tom Gilson observes the shift that has taken place among those who reject the exclusive...

June 07, 2011

10,000 Adams and Eves

Thus far the main controversy between Christianity and mainline scientists has been over evolution. Many...

March 2011

March 17, 2011

Online Apologetics Conference

And speaking of Apologetics Conferences, here is one sponsored by Anthony Horvath at Athanatos Ministries....

March 15, 2011

Learn apologetics

If you are interested in Christian apologetics--that is, the defense of the Christian faith--I urge...

January 2011

January 13, 2011

Anger at God leads to atheism

Joe Carter reports on a study that shows that atheists are angry at a God...

January 12, 2011

Two meanings of “faith”

Thanks to FWS who pointed us to this post from LCMS president Matthew Harrison quoting...

January 07, 2011

Atheists’ diversity problem

Atheists are worried because nearly all atheists are white and most of them are men:...

December 2010

December 20, 2010

Handel’s Messiah as (Lutheran) Apologetics

Crossway editor Justin Taylor interviews Calvin Stappert on his new book about Handel's Messiah. Did...

December 14, 2010

Materialism as myth

Joe Carter renders materialistic cosmology as a creation myth. Here is the first part, but...