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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 11, 2023 7:08 PM
Alan offers three steps to respond to the rhetorically powerful, yet flawed argument that women might get injured or killed through dangerous, back-alley abortions if abortion is made illegal.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 10, 2023 6:11 PM
Alan addresses the objection that Christians are only kind to people so they can convert them.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 10, 2023 8:48 PM
Why has it become so hard to define a woman? Alan looks at a few definitions that are offered, explains what’s wrong with them, and then offers his own definition.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Oct 3, 2023 5:37 PM
The theory that Jesus merely fainted on the cross then regained consciousness in the tomb is a popular alternative story to the resurrection of Jesus, but is it reasonable?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 27, 2023 4:13 PM
Alan attended Andy Stanley’s Unconditional Conference, an event intended to equip parents and ministry leaders how to reach out to LGBTQ youth. In this episode, Alan provides his assessment of the...
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Nov 2, 2023 11:30 PM
Some people claim Jesus was still alive when he was taken off the cross, but there are three major problems with this theory.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 10, 2023 7:08 PM
People who identify as LGBT routinely ask their Christian friends and family to accommodate various requests. Are you justified in declining to go along even if it might damage your relationship...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 15, 2023 7:59 PM
Alan addresses whether it’s reasonable to refuse to use a transgender person’s preferred pronouns.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 12, 2024 9:07 PM
When a person rejects God, they’re left to determine for themselves their own identity. Alan unpacks some problems with this approach.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan explains how the important principle of truth and compassion plays out in the discussion on homosexuality.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the claim that science offers an evidence-based creation story, whereas the biblical account is just based on a myth.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that since we don’t follow Leviticus on all moral rules, we shouldn’t follow it when it comes to homosexual rules either.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan exposes an inconsistency in the abortion-choice position.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to Bill Maher’s challenge that God needs to keep the devil alive so Christians will live in fear and keep going to church.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
It turns out that science is not the only tool to discover knowledge. Alan explains how these other ways can be more immediate and accurate.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that Leviticus teaches some abortions are permissible because the life of a human being is in its blood.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan Shlemon talks about whether or not Muslims and Christians believe and worship the same God.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan explains why intelligent design is not another God-of-the-gaps explanation, but rather a scientific theory that provides the best explanation of the evidence.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan explains why there’s one apologetic topic that he gets more questions about and more challenges on than any other.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan gives highlights from his recent trip to Egypt where he trained Arab Christians in theology and apologetics.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan offers a simple question that neutralizes the claim that the problem of evil is evidence against God’s existence.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan offers a helpful question to answer the charge of same-sex marriage advocates that claim homosexuals are denied equal protection under the law.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to an interesting defense for abortion. People argue that since a brain dead person is not alive, an unborn human embryo can’t be alive either because it doesn’t have a brain.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that abortion is permissible in cases where the fetus doesn’t have a brain.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan talks about taking Christians on the “Muslim Mission,” a 4-day trip to practice engaging Muslims on the street and in mosques.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan explains what happened during his recent abortion presentation to medical students at USC’s Keck School of Medicine
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Advocates of same-sex marriage attempt to dismiss the biblical view of marriage by claiming that scripture condones multiple definitions of marriage. Here’s my response to this challenge.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan answers whether homosexuals are going to hell and offers a tip for how to respond when someone asks you this question.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to a Muslim video that claims we don’t know the real Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
I explain why I responded to a recent YouTube video that went viral. It’s of Zach Wahls making an appeal for same-sex marriage to the Iowa House of Representatives.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that early embryos aren’t individual human beings because some of them can twin and then even recombine.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
If a woman is raped and gets pregnant, is the easier choice to have a quick abortion or endure nine months of pregnancy? Find out the surprising answer in this episode.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the recent viral YouTube video of Zach Wahls making an appeal for same-sex marriage to the Iowa House of Representatives.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that men shouldn’t say anything about abortion because it’s a women’s issue.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan tells the story of how he recently role-played a Muslim to a group of Christians. Find out how they responded to the Muslim challenge.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
What does the FDA and smoking have in common with the pro-life movement? Find out in this edition of “Thinking Out Loud”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that the parable of the blind men and the elephant is an argument against religious belief and Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan talks about his recent trip to Lebanon and training Egyptians on witnessing to Muslims.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that faith is gullibility or believing things in the absence of evidence.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan debates the entire philosophy club at a secular college on abortion and lives to tell about it.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that pro-life advocates are inconsistent if they favor the death penalty.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the claim that homosexuals are born that way.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan explains why atheists must accept evolution no matter what the science says.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Muslims come into the protestant prison chapel to hear Alan teach Christians how to witness to them.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
A man yells at Alan while he’s teaching and walks out of his class. Find out why in this podcast.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Since this month marks the 38th year of legalized abortion in the United States, Alan reflects on whether abortion counts as a social justice issue.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan reflects on his time in prison and the surprise that was waiting for him.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Alan’s monthly letter from July 2012 I had just given a talk at his church when Charlie asked for help.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for March 2008 It’s hard to believe a state legislature passed a law forbidding the teaching of evolution.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
“It is not necessary to invoke God to...set the Universe going,” concludes Stephen Hawking in his latest book, The Grand Design. Denying God is old hat, but this comes from a world-class...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for June 2011 Atheists like to fancy themselves as rational people. They claim they aren’t encumbered by holy books or divine doctrine.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
The purpose of this post is merely to provide clarity rather than to argue for the theist position (see all of STR for those arguments).
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
I wrote not long ago about how a change in values in 18th-century Britain (as a result of a million people coming to Christ) affected their economy.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
The values of Christianity brought a vast number of people out of material poverty as a happy byproduct of their souls being brought of spiritual poverty.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
In an Unbelievable podcast discussing the question, “What was the primary cause of Nazi ideology—Darwinism or Christian anti-Semitism?” a listener asked, “Has Darwinism become prescriptive?...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Alan explains why abortion rarely makes the social justice list and why it should be at the top of the list.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Alan explains how some Christians are compromising on the topic of homosexuality.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Research has shown there are at least four ways fathers make unique contributions to the lives of their children.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Find out what scholars—even skeptical, non-Christian ones—are saying about the facts surrounding the resurrection and how that can be used as evidence that Jesus rose from the grave.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
Alan highlights a scientific study that demonstrates that homosexual orientation in adolescents is changeable.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
William Lane Craig’s organization, Reasonable Faith, created a simple, visually interesting, brief video explaining the basics of the kalam cosmological argument.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
James Sire describes naturalists as monistic materialists who deny the existence of immaterial entities and their ability to act in this world.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Hawking believes that human behavior is determined by physical laws, but this has serious implications for all his work.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Does the traditional marriage definition of “one man, one woman” take away some people’s rights?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
To believe in miracles, we have to believe an immaterial God can move things in the world. Is that unreasonable?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Some atheists say that if God exists, He should show Himself to everyone so they can believe in Him and not go to Hell. Should a good God do this?
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Web Content Article · By guest author On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
By Steve Wagner To Respond, Distinguish Two Types of Objectivity
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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
His is one of the great minds of Western civilization—indeed, the history of the world.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Cappadocian Church Father, Gregory of Nyssa, lived in the 4th century and was an outspoken critic of slavery.
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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
Dr. Peter J. Williams explains “New Evidences the Gospels Were Based on Eyewitness Accounts.”
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