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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
A discussion between John Ensor, Francis Chan, and John Piper covers the impact of graphic pictures, how teaching their congregations about human dignity and abortion glorifies God, and more.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Alan answers the challenge from abortion-choice advocates who ask pro-lifers, “How many babies have you adopted?”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Philosopher Alvin Plantinga made a few quotable points about atheism in an interview posted by the New York Times on Sunday.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
When missionaries returned to a tribe of former cannibals who came to Christ decades ago, this is what they found.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? Alan answers this question by providing a unique understanding of how to understand the notion of God.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Is faith blind? Alan answers this question by explaining the biblical definition of faith.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
The SLED Test is a simple argument against abortion.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Now that the dust has settled on the hysteria surrounding SB 1062, Arizona’s failed religious freedom bill (widely dubbed the “anti-gay bill” by the press), Ramesh Ponnuru clarifies the...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Alan answers the challenge that opponents of same-sex marriage sometimes commit the slippery slope fallacy when they argue that same-sex marriage will lead to other forms of “marriage” like...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Because economic policies have the power to either help or hurt real people, we need to know something about it. Here are some insights from Jay Richards, author of the excellent Money, Greed,...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Robert George and Hamza Yusuf argue against the Freedom from Religion Foundation’s claim that religious exemptions made for the sake of religious freedom are actually unconstitutionally...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Businesses, be honest about the views you’re for and the views you reject, the people you’ll tolerate and the people you’ll require to fully recant their views or face the consequences. But let’s...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
It’s not unreasonable or bigoted to treat the unique joining of sexually complementary partners uniquely. But in order to see that this is a reasonable understanding that isn’t motivated by hate,...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that American Christians should retreat from the same-sex marriage issue because it’s unwinnable for them.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Einstein said of Michael Faraday “that he, of all people, had made the greatest change in our conception of reality.” He was one of the most famous scientists of his time.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Many of the values our culture takes for granted came to us through Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
If you listen for it, you’ll hear it—people using words as ideological tools to paint emotional images rather than to communicate objective truth. Should we, as Christians, change our style to...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
In a literal playing out of Romans 1:18–21, a Boston University psychologist has recommended methods for suppressing the design intuition in children.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
William Harvey was a physician and scientist in the 16th and 17th centuries who was the first to demonstrate how the circulatory system worked.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Alan addresses the following claim: Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Alan provides a simple, yet powerful tactic to help you deal with the topic of evolution.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
“The days of comfortable and acceptable Christianity are now over,” said Robert George.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
If you want to start conversations with people about abortion, you don’t need to be a philosopher. All you need is clarity on these three questions.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
You’re probably interested in ideas—learning them, examining them, explaining them, and passing them on. Since this worthy passion has its own particular dangers and pitfalls, here are some...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Joe Rigney says, “The person of great sacrifice must be the person of little sacrifices.” Now is the time to practice dying by His power, looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Paul McHugh (former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins) explains why Hopkins stopped doing sex-reassignment surgeries.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
There’s no consistent reason under the new definition of marriage why polyamorists should be denied what’s legally available to others.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
I heard a news story on the radio Sunday that the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., had a transgender clergy officiate at their Sunday service for the first time.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
I was recently interviewed by students about the injustice of abortion. I thought I’d share my answers. This post is the first of two parts.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
I was recently interviewed by students about the injustice of abortion. I thought I’d share my answers. You can read the first part of the interview here. This post is the second part of that...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Here’s some good (albeit difficult) advice from N.D. Wilson’s article “Called to Be Uncool Christians.”
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn played a major role in the collapse of the Soviet Union more than two decades ago.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Sometimes people are puzzled. They think, Shouldn’t we teach Christians about Christianity? Why are you teaching them about Islam and taking them to mosques? That’s a good question.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
The Supreme Court’s decision on the Hobby Lobby case upholding the First Amendment protection of religious expression (and conscience) is eliciting some odd complaints from those who are unhappy...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
The response to the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision is troubling.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Cadbury Chocolate was founded by a Quaker, John Cadbury, who has a strong sense of social responsibility motivated by his Christian convictions.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Even when the current set of beliefs held by atheists prevent them from seeing any argument for God’s existence as plausible, those arguments still have an effect on our culture.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Is there any reason to think the contraceptives Hobby Lobby refused to subsidize are actually abortifacients? Dr. Rich Poupard examines this issue.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Alan explains a tactic that can help you respond to any challenge raised against your view.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Alan explains the details of a mosque experience and the benefits of taking Christians to mosques.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
What is marriage, why does it matter, and what are the consequences of redefining it? Ryan Anderson explains.
Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
There’s a great temptation to get frustrated with the people in your church as you learn theology and apologetics, but this is a spiritually dangerous misunderstanding of how the body of Christ was...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
When it comes to abortion, our culture uses the very points that normally condemn violence against the young to justify it.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
The claim that “atheists are as moral as Christians” is meaningless if we’re operating under different systems of morality.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
David Brooks’s op-ed in the New York Times on “The Mental Virtues” reminds us that “character tests are pervasive even in modern everyday life. It’s possible to be heroic if you’re just...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Your work, whatever it is, is your opportunity to glorify God by serving others.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s requirement that leaders in their campus clubs be Christian has been declared unacceptable discrimination by the Cal State University system.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Alan gives a short recap of his trip to Beirut, Lebanon. He highlights the experiences of training the persecuted church and meeting his cousin who recently fled Baghdad, Iraq.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Reasonable Faith has released a short video examining this question: Is the fine-tuning of our universe a result of physical necessity, chance, or design?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Alan answers the question of whether we are at war with Muslims. He also offers a handy tactic to help you determine whether a doctrine or behavior is truly Islamic.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
A new study suggests “consciousness is present beyond the point at which scientists can detect it.”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Here’s what Tim Keller had to say about turning your theology into communion with God through biblical meditation and prayer.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
The test was positive. He had cancer. The tumor was only six centimeters, but because it was in his trachea (his windpipe), it had almost completely blocked his ability to breathe.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
A man with ALS explains his anger against those who promote assisted suicide.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Alan explains why embryonic stem cell research is not only morally problematic, but ineffective at treating disease and disability. Instead, he offers a scientific alternative.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
This month, Alan asks, “Must we kill humans to save other humans?“ and Brett talks about the reaction we should expect from the world, even when we’re loving.
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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
Reasonable Faith has released another apologetics video, and this one explains the moral argument for the existence of God.
Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy
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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 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 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 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
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 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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