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Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?

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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Is Intelligent Design Just God-of-the-Gaps?

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.

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

The Issue that Can’t be Ignored

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.

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

Serving Arab Christians in Egypt

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.

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

The Problemless Problem of Evil

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.

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

Marriage Equality Already Exists

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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Is a Human Embryo Without a Brain Alive?

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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Is a Fetus Without a Brain a Person?

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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The Muslim Mission

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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Is There a Life Unworthy of Life?

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

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

Does the Biblical View of Marriage Contain Multiple Definitions?

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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Are Homosexuals Going to Hell?

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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You Don’t Know the Real Jesus

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.

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

Why I Answered an Argument for Same-sex Marriage

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Problemless Problem of Evil

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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Atheism and Universal Human Rights

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).

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Virtues and the Economy

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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Values Fight Poverty

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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

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

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...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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Fathers Don’t Mother

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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.

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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.

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A Simple Explanation of the Cosmological Argument

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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Christianity and Naturalism

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

We’re Arguing Definitions, Not Rights

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?

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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

Can a Non-Physical Being Affect the Physical World?

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?

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Should God Appear to Atheists?

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?

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

“You’re Not Objective So Your Opinion Doesn’t Count”

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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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.

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The Second Story

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...

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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.

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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.

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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.

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Who Would God Discriminate Against?

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Why Must the Cause of the Universe Be Personal?

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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...

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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.

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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.

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Only One Question: What Is Marriage?

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Pro-life Killing: An Oxymoron?

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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Beckwith: They Don’t Understand Religious Conservatives

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Love Requires Wrath against Evil

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

Here’s how Croatian theologian Miroslav Volf came to understand that “God isn’t wrathful in spite of being love. God is wrathful because God is love.”

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

How many babies have you adopted?

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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What Does Christ’s Resurrection Mean for Us?

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

Why is the resurrection so celebrated if our sins were paid for on the cross? What did it accomplish? Why was it necessary? Here’s what we learn about the work of Christ in Hebrews 7–10.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Plantinga Interview: Is Atheism Irrational?

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

His Weakness Glorifies God

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

Here’s how being open about your own weakness and sin brings glory to God.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?

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.

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

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