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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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

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

“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...

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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

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

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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

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