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Are early human embryos individuals if they can twin?

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Bioethics

Taking the Easy Route after Rape

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Bioethics

Answering a Case for Same-sex Marriage

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Sexuality and Gender

Should We Leave the Abortion Debate to Women?

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Bioethics

Are You Ready to Talk to a Muslim?

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Other Worldviews

The Power of Graphic Images

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”

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Bioethics

Answering the Challenge of the Blind Men and the Elephant

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Christian Living

Serving the Church in Egypt, While in Lebanon

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Christian Living

Is Faith Gullibility?

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Philosophy

Outmanned, but Not Outgunned

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Bioethics

Pro-Life and Pro-Death Penalty?

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Bioethics

Are Homosexuals Born that Way?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Alan responds to the claim that homosexuals are born that way.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Sexuality and Gender

Why Evolution Is Dogma

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Other Worldviews

Squaring Off with Muslims in Prison

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Other Worldviews

My Most Controversial Teaching

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Christian Living

Not Making the Social Justice Issue List

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Bioethics

Freedom in Christ Behind Bars

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Christian Living

Why Does God Let Us Suffer?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

There are three points that especially stand out from Joni Eareckson Tada’s list of God’s purposes in our suffering.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Atheism: More Than Just a Non-Belief

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

All the beliefs that go along with an atheist’s “lack of belief in God” can be stated as positive claims that need to be recognized and defended.

Media Type: Article Topic: Other Worldviews

Israel’s Failure Led to Evil and Suffering

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

I explained here how God’s destruction of the Canaanites through the Israelites had a dual purpose.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

“Mormons Aren’t Christians” Is Not an Epithet

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

The Newsroom at LDS.org posted this in response to the current controversy: Recent political events have once again brought the “Mormons aren’t Christians,” “Mormons are a cult” epithets...

Media Type: Article Topic: Other Worldviews

Not Genocide, but Capital Punishment

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

To follow up on yesterday’s post on the judgment of the Canaanites, here’s the summary of Clay Jones’s article in the Christian Research Journal, “Killing the Canaanites”

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

The Judgment that Led to Salvation

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

When God judged the Canaanites through the Israelites, He gave the Israelites a warning: But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that...

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

How Our Suffering Glorifies God

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

Richard Wurmbrand’s book about the sufferings of Christians under the Communists helps us see with our own “eyes” the reality of the unique role suffering plays in our purpose as Christians.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Evil and the Cross

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

Today, on this Good Friday, we think about an event that was not only the result of evil but also the reason for allowing evil to exist in the first place.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

God Solved the Justice/Grace Problem

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

While it’s still unclear how LOST will ultimately end up, some recent developments seem to provide a good illustration of one way people have chosen to resolve the problem that has plagued humanity...

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

LDS View of Atonement Clarified

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

A parable printed in the official LDS (Mormon) teaching manual illustrates well the difference between our view of the atonement and the LDS view.

Media Type: Article Topic: Other Worldviews

Social Justice Begins at Conception

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Bioethics

Compromise Is Not an Option

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Sexuality and Gender

Less Is More: A Case for the Resurrection

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: History

Once Gay, Always Gay?

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Sexuality and Gender

Do Our Prayers Make a Difference?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM

If God is sovereign over history, why should we pray?

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

How I Measure Success

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Christian Living

Blaise Pascal: Biography

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: History

Early Abolitionist

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: History

Based on Eyewitness Accounts

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.”

Media Type: Article Topic: History

What Was the Purpose of the Command against Mixed Threads?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

Adam Parker of Bring the Books has an interesting take on why the Israelites were commanded not to use mixed threads in their clothing.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Do Not Throw Away Your Confidence

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

Hebrews 10:32–36 has a very relevant exhortation for our postmodern times.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Leverage That’s Global

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

Alan discusses his monthly letter for October 2013.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Bioethics

How the Early Church Sought to Resolve Textual Variants

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

Dan Wallace of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts has an interesting article offering evidence that the transmission of the New Testament text wasn’t merely linear.

Media Type: Article Topic: History

Did Jesus Not Die on the Cross?

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Other Worldviews

The Early Power of the Press

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

William Brewster was one of the leading separatists who protested religious intolerance in England.

Media Type: Article Topic: History

Nazi Paganism

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

We rarely hear about the pagan religious ideas promoted by the Nazis, yet they were ideologically opposed to Christianity and intended to replace it with their own pagan ideology.

Media Type: Article Topic: Other Worldviews

Jesus, the Son of Man

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

Who is this Jesus whom we are celebrating this Christmas? Alistair Begg and Sinclair Ferguson explain the meaning of the title Jesus used to refer to Himself.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

God Took His Own Medicine

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

Dorothy Sayers expresses well and in clear vernacular the reason for Christmas, the purpose of the incarnation: “God chose to make man as he is—limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and...

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

What Jesus Came to Do

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

When we consider what Jesus came to do for us, His enemies, as one of us, the birth of Christ becomes something even more astounding: a demonstration of perfect love.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

The Inconvenient Truth to the Gay Rights Narrative

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Sexuality and Gender

The Original Text Is Not a Physical Object

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

Michael Kruger responds to Bart Ehrman’s objection, “What good is it to say that the autographs (i.e., the originals) were inspired? We don’t have the originals!”

Media Type: Article Topic: History

Updated Numbers for Ancient Manuscripts

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

Because of all the recent discoveries of copies of ancient texts, many Christian apologists may be working with outdated numbers. Here’s an update.

Media Type: Article Topic: History

Horus? Mithras? Jesus?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

Here’s some Christmas fun from Lutheran Satire: “Horus Ruins Christmas.”

Media Type: Article Topic: History

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