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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Alan explains that Christians shouldn’t measure their success on results, but on something else.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
As I listen to many of the subjects in debate today in our culture—the dialog between secularists and Christians—there’s a fundamental difference in perspectives that I think we need to be aware of...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Atheist philosopher Bradley Monton says that “intelligent design needs to be taken more seriously than a lot of its opponents are willing to.”
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Schooled not only in mathematics and astronomy but also in theology, [Johannes] Kepler initially intended to serve as a minister.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Someone brought this video to our attention and asked what our response is. It’s a nicely made video, but the argument is so flawed the response seems simplistic.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Stephen Meyer’s response to the charge that Darwin’s Doubt makes only a negative “God-of-the-gaps” argument (i.e., “We can’t explain it, therefore God did it”) is helpful in concisely...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
A new study shows that “forcing eye contact when trying to change someone’s mind may actually cause listeners to become more stubborn.”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Alan discusses his monthly letter for October 2013.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Alan responds to a claim from the Qur’an that Jesus didn’t die on the cross.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
A frequent objection to a Designer of the universe and life is junk DNA.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
I listened to a fascinating discussion with Dr. Paul Nelson on the Michael Medved show about Dr. Craig Venter’s work on the human genomes.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
This question is asked regarding the Employment Non-Discrimination Act moving through the Senate.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
William Lane Craig explains why the timeless cause of the universe must be personal, not impersonal.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Alan explains the one, inconvenient truth that undermines the gay rights narrative.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Bill Pratt responds as an electrical engineer to atheists who claim that the sub-optimal design of biological organisms argues against the existence of the Christian God.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
The testimony Ryan Anderson (co-author of What Is Marriage) gave to the Indiana House Judiciary Committee earlier this week is a succinct defense of man/woman marriage. Take ten minutes to watch.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Alan answers the question of whether killing an abortionist to protect the unborn is parallel to killing a person who attempts to murder a toddler.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
No amount of reasoned arguments can trump a suspicion of bad motives once it’s firmly implanted, and unfortunately, people are currently assuming the worst of religious conservatives.
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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 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
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
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
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 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 amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Michael Horton discussed youth ministry with Brett and Greg recently on the White Horse Inn. Here are the links to listen to their conversations.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
An interview with a young Christian woman who had a difficult time in college when her worldview was challenged points to some ways you can do a better job preparing your children.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Have you ever given someone a free ride? I know you’re a nice person and have probably helped a neighbor in need. There’s one free ride, though, you need to stop giving
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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.
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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 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 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 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 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.
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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
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
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 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
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 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
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 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 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
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 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 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
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 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 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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