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July 2021

July 20, 2021

Why the Gospel Doesn’t Work on Exvangelicals

People like me are like flies in the ointment of evangelical theology. We did all...

July 09, 2021

But Why Does There Have to Be Blood?

With only three more chapters to go in Tim Keller's The Reason for God, it...

July 01, 2021

Your Religion Is Special, Just Like All the Others

I remember once believing that my religion was unlike all other religions in the world....

June 2021

June 08, 2021

Tim Keller and the Argument from Morality

Reformed pastor Tim Keller devotes Chapter 9 of The Reason for God to regurgitating the Argument from...

May 2021

May 28, 2021

The Argument From Misunderstanding Evolution

In my last post, we looked at four (bad) arguments for the existence of God...

May 23, 2021

Four (Bad) Reasons For God

When I first picked up Tim Keller's The Reason for God, I did not expect that out...

May 20, 2021

Changing Gods Midstream

"You can't ride two horses with one a**, sugarbean." ---Earl Smooter, Sweet Home Alabama Halfway...

May 14, 2021

Believing In Evolution, But Not Too Much

Moving on to Chapter 6 in his The Reason for God, Tim Keller takes on Richard Dawkins, who...

May 08, 2021

Revisiting Tim Keller’s The Reason for God

I don't really care for apologetics books. It's a tedious chore to make it all...

July 2020

July 22, 2020

C.S. Lewis and the Law of Nature

For years now, I've been putting off writing a review of Mere Christianity by C.S....

December 2019

December 06, 2019

Episode 22: The Most Failed Prayer In History

Defenders of the Christian faith can't stop moving discussions about their religion from objective matters to...

July 2019

July 17, 2019

Episode 8: How Faith Breaks Your Thinker

Someone wrote me recently to ask: What drives you to be so adamant in sharing...

June 2018

June 06, 2018

C.S. Lewis and the Argument from Spilled Milk

I see a quote from C.S. Lewis circulated quite a bit, and I'd like to give...

June 04, 2018

How Trump’s Legal Defense Mimics Christian Apologetics

This week during season two of The Trump Show in an episode entitled "How Far Will...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

What If Christianity Were True?

Defenders of the Christian faith spend a considerable amount of time trying to prove that...

April 10, 2018

How Faith Breaks Your Thinker

Someone wrote me recently to ask: What drives you to be so adamant in sharing...

May 2017

May 14, 2017

Apologetics: Preaching to the Choir

Apologetics isn't for the lost, it's for the already saved. Generally speaking, apologetics books and...

September 2016

September 08, 2016

When Your Christian Friends Give You Reconversion Homework

I have several well-meaning believers in my life. These people, for good or for ill,...

August 2016

August 26, 2016

What Lies Beneath the Suit of Armor

Several months ago I was asked to contribute a few paragraphs for the new Atheos...

August 07, 2016

Why I Am (Still) Not an Anti-Theist

I've considered myself an atheist for nearly seven years now and have been openly writing...

March 2016

March 23, 2016

C.S. Lewis and the Argument from Spilled Milk

I see a quote from C.S. Lewis circulated quite a bit, and I'd like to give...

March 09, 2016

A Conversation with My Younger Christian Self

Yesterday I frustrated a whole lot of readers by posting a guest post that started...

March 08, 2016

The “Reasonable-ness” of the Christian Faith

I asked a friend of mine who is a Christian to answer the question "Is...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

John Piper and the Art of Not Answering a Question

Anyone who has wrestled seriously with the Bible's claim that we will all be judged after...

January 2016

January 19, 2016

Watch Godless in Dixie on The Atheist Experience (Video)

This past weekend I had the honor of speaking to three different groups in San...

January 10, 2016

The Most Fantastically Failed Prayer in History

Defenders of the Christian faith can't stop moving discussions about their religion from objective matters to...

January 08, 2016

Preacher Says Atheists Prey on Fear, Prejudice, and Ignorance

I used to think the Christian faith equipped individuals with superior tools for self-analysis and...

November 2015

November 26, 2015

Advice for Our Young Apologist Friends

This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the launch party for a new...

August 2015

August 29, 2015

The Core of the Christian Faith Isn’t Intellectual, It’s Emotional

Over the past few days during spare moments on planes and in between meetings I've been...

July 2015

July 09, 2015

Men Who Stare at Facts

Not long ago I had dinner with a friend who encouraged me to reconsider my stance...