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August 2012

August 15, 2012

Jeff Cook: Could Believing in God Harm Your Soul?

This post is by Jeff Cook, and details are at the bottom. Could Believing in...

August 06, 2012

Apologetics is Unavoidable

If you are a Christian, and by that I mean if you "believe" in King...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

Jeff Cook, Wanting God to Exist is More Important than …

Wanting God to Exist is More Important Than Believing in God Jeff Cook, details at...

July 07, 2012

They Don’t Believe Because Your God Isn’t Desirable

This post is by our friend Jeff Cook... They Don’t Believe Because Your God Isn’t...

June 2012

June 24, 2012

Jeff Cook’s New Kind of Apologetics

Gotta watch this ... I hope Jeff's book will be widely read.

June 22, 2012

On Divine Child Abuse

About a decade ago it became avant garde theology to contend the classical Christian theory...

June 12, 2012

Works Both Ways

We hear it all the time, and it is often from the lips of the...

June 05, 2012

Walking from the Faith

This article, from Alternet.com, is by Valerie Tarico, a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington and...

June 05, 2012

A New Kind of Apologetics

Apologetics has changed. What has changed is the substance of what matters. Apologists used to...

March 2012

March 20, 2012

Desire as Argument for God

By Paul Copan: If humans are multi-dimensional, faith and apologetics must be too. This final...

February 2012

February 10, 2012

Changing Apologetics

In some ways defense of the Christian faith is the same; in other ways it...

February 05, 2012

Bonhoeffer’s Birthday

From Fred Sanders, at The Scriptorium Daily, posted yesterday on Bonhoeffer's birthday. If you were...

January 2012

January 26, 2012

Want to Defend the Faith? Read this

Some people specialize in apologetics (like Lee Strobel); some apologists love to debate (like William...

January 05, 2012

Testing Scripture 2 (RJS)

Scripture plays a foundational role in the Christian faith on both an individual level and...

January 03, 2012

Science and Theology 5 – Motivated Belief (RJS)

Is religious belief merely a faith claim - a personal preference like that for peanut...

September 2011

September 05, 2011

Seven Days that Divide the World 1

John Lennox, professor in Mathematics at Oxford, in his new and wonderfully written book, Seven...

June 2011

June 01, 2011

Jeff Cook’s Response: A Confession of a Seeker

From Jeff Cook. We Need Better Answers. A Response to Mark Galli. I love and...

May 2011

May 25, 2011

God Behaving Badly 3

When it comes to women in the Bible, or when it comes to potential indications...

May 23, 2011

God Behaving Badly 2

Sometimes I'm a bit surprised by what people say about God. I know of no...

May 03, 2011

Who Can We Trust? (RJS)

I recently read three posts on the blog Cognitive Discopants worth some serious discussion. The...

April 2011

April 12, 2011

Into the Depths of Why? 1

Adam Hamilton's book, Why?: Making Sense of God's Will, is short. It's wise. It asks...

February 2011

February 07, 2011

A Very Religious Atheist indeed

From my friend Patrick Mitchel, in Dublin, who heard a lecture from Daniel Dennett: Daniel...

February 01, 2011

belief … the modern case (RJS)

Francis Collins, in the brief stretch between stints as head of the Human Genome Project...

January 2011

January 10, 2011

Problem Number One

The "holy wars" of Israel are the single-most troubling ethical problem in the Old Testament....

January 06, 2011

Is God a Moral Monster? 8

Is the Old Testament misogynistic? That is, does it convey or transmit a view of...

January 04, 2011

Is God a Moral Monster? 7

In one of my classes a student, one who had grown up in suburban evangelicalism...

December 2010

December 21, 2010

Is God a Moral Monster? 6

I've never taught Leviticus when students weren't at least curious about the Old Testament food...

December 17, 2010

Is God a Moral Monster? 5

Sometimes its the evident arbitrariness of an Old Testament law or, to use the words...

December 15, 2010

Is God a Moral Monster? 4

Not a few critics of the Bible have called into question not just the religion,...

December 10, 2010

Is God a Moral Monster? 3

When it comes to accusations against the God of the Bible, one of the most...