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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Richard Dawkins once wrote, “Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Even though it’s questionable how much of it is true, I still love the stories about the real St. Nicholas. Here’s what Fred Sanders had to say about him.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
The objection that pro-life advocates or organizations aren’t really pro-life because they don’t also advocate [fill in the blank] is one you’ll encounter. Here’s how Scott Klusendorf responds to it.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Alan attended a ’gay Christian’ conference that intends to reform the church to make it affirm practicing homosexuals. Listen to his thoughts about his experience there.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
If you know someone you think is beyond God’s ability to save, watch this story of how David Wood became a Christian, and have hope.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
If you or someone you know drifted out of Christianity by way of the Emergent Church movement, listen to what Matt Rawlings discovered that brought him back.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
This past November I wrote that embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) had not led to any successful human treatments. I was wrong.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Alan answers the question of whether pro-lifers are inconsistent if they don’t condone the killing of abortion doctors.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Humans are more valuable than animals and so eating meat is permissible.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Kevin DeYoung reminds us that “all paths lead to God, but only one path will present you before God without fault and with great joy.”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Reasonable Faith has released another apologetics video, and this one explains the moral argument for the existence of God.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Theories ought not be rejected just because there’s an anomaly that can’t yet be reconciled with it. Instead, it’s legitimate to take time to work on finding an answer that resolves the alleged...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Since the Crusades are back in the news, these excerpts from a 2005 article by Crusade historian Thomas F. Madden will help you brush up on the basics.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Alan answers the question of whether people who eat meat are unjustly discriminating against sentient animals.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
In an article in The Week, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry addresses the popular understanding “that social change driven by appeals to science and reason is (a) good and (b) irreversible.”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Here’s what J. Warner Wallace has to say about the charge that Christians are too biased to fairly evaluate evidence.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Gay activists prepared to protest FIRE Church in Concord, North Carolina.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
A doctor in Michigan wrongly refused to take a lesbian couple’s baby as a patient. This is simply a misunderstanding and misapplication of the conscience rights people have been fighting for.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Our hope for homosexuals is not heterosexuality, but holiness. We’re not trying to make them straight, but lead them straight to Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Calling the structure of the eye a “mystery” would require an assumption of purpose and optimal design, and that’s not an assumption that can be supported by unguided evolution.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Be careful about the arguments you make for same-sex marriage. You may be arguing for more than you bargained for.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
How can you become an apologetics speaker? Here’s some advice on getting started.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
The number of things you’ll be called a “bigot” for not endorsing will only increase, and possibly even in your own church. Are you ready?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Here are some good words from David Mathis about “readying ourselves for whatever opposition comes.”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Alan explains whether the principle of truth and compassion works when gay activists come to protest your church.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Nancy Pearcey has the unique ability of getting to the heart of things in the cultural conversation, and her penetrating critique of the worldview “idols” of our age is chock-full of gems.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
The word “tactics” may sound impersonal, but the purpose of using tactics in your discussions with skeptics is to increase your understanding of their perspective so you can personalize your...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
The kind of response we’re seeing from people who oppose Indiana’s RFRA proves just how much we need these laws if we’re to continue to function as a diverse society.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Christians do not want to “refuse service to gay people.” There’s an important distinction between refusing to serve individuals and refusing to participate in events.
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Web Content Article · By stand to reason On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Ten seconds is plenty of time to defend your pro-life views.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Mere Orthodoxy’s Matt Anderson explains why “an anti-liberal approach toward dissenting views is part of the DNA of the logic of the current gay rights argument.”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Alan talks about his recent speaking tour in Alberta and explains the impact of same-sex marriage on the Christian culture in Canada.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Alan explains one way homeschooling parents can avoid sheltering their kids too much.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Since secular philosophies, like religions, point to an ultimate reality, they can be evaluated, just as religions can, by identifying their idols.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
It seems some politicians are worried about consistent, logical thinking leading from a fetal homicide law to fetal human rights.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
The Supreme Court will hear arguments today on whether or not it’s constitutional to define marriage as a man and a woman. Here’s why they should let the states decide.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
There have been a couple of incidents where a school has asked a Muslim (or perhaps just an Arabic-speaking student) to recite the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
An ethicist, a same-sex marriage activist, and a polyamorist walk into a bar...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
The third of Nancy Pearcey’s five principles for evaluating worldviews is, “Test the idol: Does it contradict what we know about the world?”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
There are many ideas we simply take for granted as natural and obvious, when in fact they didn’t exist until the arrival of Christianity changed things completely.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Nancy Pearcey explains how to find where a worldview contradicts itself.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Alan defines some terms in the debate over whether conversion therapy should be banned and, by doing so, answers whether efforts to change a person’s same-sex attraction should ever be attempted.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Where did Jesus claim to be God? Jesus made this claim a number of times, and it was very clear to those He was talking to.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
There are legitimate things to want to shelter your kids from. However, there are some things that are appropriate to expose our kids to.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Some Christians think the way to avoid being “conformed to this world” (Rom. 12:2) is by avoiding “worldly” ideas. A better strategy is to learn the skills to critically evaluate them.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
I recently posted a video answering a challenge: When did you choose your heterosexuality? Someone asked a follow-up question, and I thought I’d share my response.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Any worldview that lacks the ability to explain what we know to be true—that there are objective moral facts, regardless of whether an individual or an entire society rejects them—is devastatingly...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Evidence that literary manuscripts in the ancient world would last hundreds of years suggests that some of the earliest New Testament copies we posses may have been copied directly from one of...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
In this short video from the Discovery Institute, Paul Nelson shows how even tiny little worms “carry the signal of design unmistakably.”
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
There are two basic rules of engagement that must be remembered when discussing your spiritual and moral convictions.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Quite often after I have given one of my talks, a few people in attendance will push through the crowd so they can talk to me one-on-one. My time at a recent conference was no exception.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Remember when I talked about our culture biting absurd bullets? Here’s how it works.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Jonathan Rauch, a defender of same-sex marriage, explains why the comparison to racist laws that banned interracial marriage are not parallels to objections to SSM.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Our new motion graphics video looks at a controversial policy issue.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
A common question that comes up after I give my talk titled Why I Am Not an Evolutionist is, “If there are so many good scientific arguments against evolution, why is it so widely believed?”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
I believe parents are responsible for their children’s spiritual training. Of course, pastors, youth leaders, and Sunday school teachers can help. But parents have to do most of the work.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
In a happy turn of events, InterVarsity has announced they’ll be allowed back on CSU campuses without having to compromise their commitment to having Christians lead their Christian groups on campus.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
God isn’t surprised by this ruling, and by His sovereign will He’s allowed this to happen. And He’s put us here in this time for a purpose.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
The Supreme Court decision yesterday won’t just affect marriage. Giving the government the power to redefine a pre-political institution changes the relationship of the government to all of our...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion in Obergefell argues equally well for polygamy and polyamory.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Most people—religious or otherwise—have no idea what marriage is, why it exists, and what we need it for, and it’s dangerous to fundamentally change things when you don’t understand why...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
More disturbing than the fact that a new definition of marriage is now the law of the land is the way in which this transformation was accomplished.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
“Freedom is destroyed not only by its retraction; it is also devastated by its abuse.”—Ravi Zacharias
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
Since Time is saying “Now’s the Time to End Tax Exemptions for Religious Institutions,” it’s important we understand why our government has not taxed religious institutions in the past.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
Alan explains how he knows authority is the key issue when talking to Muslims.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
Alan took his 10 year-old son to UCLA to engage abortion-choice advocates who were twice his son’s age. Find out how and why he did that.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
Could you make a pro-life case that doesn’t employ religious reasons? Scott Klusendorf explains how to communicate a secular pro-life argument in two minutes or less.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
What is the appropriate response when our arguments and evidence seem to be ineffective with our unsaved loved ones? In a word: prayer. In this podcast, Tim highlights two responses that you need...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
There are few conversations between Christians that generate as much heat as those concerning creation. In this podcast, Tim outlines two principles to keep in mind when discussing creationism with...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
The abortion industry has been hiding behind a curtain of euphemisms for so long that even pro-lifers have become somewhat accustomed to its existence. Let these videos shake you back into...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
Many people believe that belief in God’s existence is merely an evidence issue. That is, given enough evidence, everyone would believe. But is it really that simple? Does belief in God merely...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
When the state leaves the choice of pregnancy termination solely to the individual, it affirms that the fetus is not worthy of state protection. This is not a neutral position.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
This is how an entire culture loses its ability to see the evil right in front of its nose. All it sees are regular people, working in ordinary offices, doing something everybody knows about, and...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Though miracles have a supernatural cause, the evidence of the effect is available for our scrutiny just as the evidence for any historical event is available to us. Here’s a brief outline of...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Many Christians claim you can’t argue someone into the kingdom, suggesting that apologetics is useless for evangelism. Alan address this question and explains why he, in part, agrees.
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