A Devotional Minute for Atheists and Sick People Everywhere
“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.” GK Chesterton I was thinking to myself how hard it is to be 'good' and how easy it is to be 'bad.' For...
View ArticleEpiscopal Priest Told She Can’t be Muslim And Christian
The Christian Post this morning has a bit about an Episcopal priest who claimed to be '100% Christian and 100% Muslim' being 'defrocked.' A brief quote from the article: Convinced that her new Muslim...
View ArticleFive Things Killing Christianity: Is the End of Christianity At Hand?
The number one thing killing Christianity in America today: Lovelessness. All the rest of the things on the list tie back to this. The Christian Church exhibits constant lovelessness in much of what it...
View ArticleFall 2009 Online Academy Offerings
The Fall 2009 session of Athanatos Online Apologetics Academy is set to begin Nov. 2. This session includes several new courses and several new instructors. Two courses are available for free. All are...
View ArticleAnother V Reaction as a Christian apologist
The beginning of the episode starts off with a Catholic priest taking confession from one person after another that has been knocked around a bit by the implications of the arrival of Visitors from...
View ArticleThe Epistemological Bottleneck And God’s Respect for Human Inquiry
One of the enduring criticisms against Christianity is that it is anti-knowledge, education, and learning. This blog has taken aim at this criticism before, most notably taking Richard Dawkins to task...
View ArticleThe feminization of love and romance: can manly men live up to girlie love?
I fear that this post is going to be construed as sexist. Let me assure the reader that I love women. Some of my best friends are women. In fact, I'm even married to one (and she is not a pillow)....
View ArticleAntony Flew Goes to Heaven: A Parable
Readers of this blog know that I have an interest in Antony Flew, having even had the honor of corresponded with him. Click here for a list of posts I’ve written regarding Dr. Flew. The short story...
View ArticleDistinguishing between the Organic Church and the Organizational Church
A pastor in Nevada chastises me, "The little old ladies in our congregation are extraordinary in their faithfulness. They do everything in the church. They run the committees, their generosity pays the...
View ArticlePick up Michael Licona’s New Book on the Resurrection of Jesus
Pick up Michael Licona’s new book on the Resurrection. Licona has debated new atheists and the like and is solid.
View ArticleApologetics is the Answer to Everything
Some Christians will begin seeing red just from reading the title of this entry. They will be angry and annoyed and may even jump up out of their seats. Therefore, let me say it again: apologetics...
View ArticleWhy Christians Should Donate Money
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth... But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven... For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matt 6:19-21) How many times have you...
View ArticleTips that Atheists can use for Understanding the Bible
When I was a high school religion teacher I ran into a bit of trouble because, for the final exam, I expected the students to be able to recall facts from the Bible that we had covered that semester....
View ArticleApologetics is the Answer to Abortion and Euthanasia and other Life Issues
Apologetics ministries tend to focus on issues such as God's existence or the fact of the resurrection or the Bible's reliability. These are all very important. Indeed, they bear directly on the issues...
View Article5 Greatest Challenges to Christianity that Apologetics Can’t Answer – Part 2
In part one of this essay I put forward two great challenges to Christianity that apologetics cannot answer. To illustrate the weight of this matter, consider the fact that not too long ago I wrote an...
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