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An Existential Crisis Only Christianity Answers

Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Mar 10, 2022 4:17 AM

Jon Noyes considers three realities concerning the soul, guilt, and human value and discusses why only Christianity provides a reasonable explanation.

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Why Did the Early Christians Switch from Sabbath to the Lord’s Day?

Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Apr 28, 2022 11:20 PM

Did Jesus truly rise from the dead? Surprisingly, something you do almost every week is powerful evidence that he did.

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Even after His Death, Jesus Fulfilled the Law

Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Aug 29, 2022 7:22 PM

Jesus fulfilled all requirements of the Law—not only during his life, but also after his death, as this little-known historical fact shows.

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No, Christmas Is Not Pagan

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Dec 6, 2022 11:07 PM

Tim Barnett answers an objection that claims December 25th was originally the date given for the birth of pagan gods.

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Did Jesus Merely Faint on the Cross?

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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Was Jesus Still Alive When He Was Taken off the Cross?

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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Does science offer an evidence-based creation story, unlike the biblical account?

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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Science as God

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Academic Suppression: It’s the New Academic Freedom

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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Smart People Can Make Dumb Mistakes

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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Why Evolution Is Dogma

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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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).

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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.

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Naturalists Still View Science as Prescriptive

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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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.

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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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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.

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According to Stephen Hawking, He’s Irrational

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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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?

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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?

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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?

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“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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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.

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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.

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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...

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Atheist Bradley Monton Defends Intelligent Design

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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Kepler and the Scientific Revolution

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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Natural Selection and Mutation

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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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.”

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Darwin’s Doubt Makes Positive Claims

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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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.

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Junk DNA?

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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Synthetic Life Points to a Designer

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!”

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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.

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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.”

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Sub-Optimal Design?

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Pioneering Women’s Education in China

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

Eliza Bridgman’s lifelong ambition was to be a missionary. She began her work in China in 1844.

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The Bruno Martyr Myth

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

Giordano Bruno is often wrongly hailed as a martyr of science. Here’s the real story.

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Caring for the Sick

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

Christians have been at the forefront of building hospitals and providing care for the sick for centuries.

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Christians Who Made a Difference

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

Arthur Guinness founded the Guinness Brewing Co. in 1755. He learned the art of brewing from his father and succeeded in establising a flourishing company.

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The Angel of Prisons

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

Elizabeth Fry was a British Quaker Christian who led the movement for prison reform in the 19th century. She was also the driving force behind reform legislation.

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Agreement with Ehrman

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

In Rob Bowman’s review of Bart Ehrman’s new book, How Jesus Became God, he enumerates the many points of agreement evangelicals have with Ehrman.

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It’s About the Difference between Men and Women

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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Five Misconceptions about Holy Week

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

Andreas Köstenberger and Justin Taylor wrote about “Five Errors to Drop from Your Easter Sermon” in Christianity Today. Here’s a summary.

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Totally Dedicated to Science and Religion

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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Psychologist Recommends Intentionally Suppressing Intuition of Design

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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More Charges of Forgery Leveled against Jesus’ Wife Fragment

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

New evidence regarding the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” fragment has come to light that may once again point to forgery.

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Science, Purpose, and Design

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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Is Religion a Threat to Morality?

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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George Cuvier: Zoologist, Biologist, and Christian

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

George Cuvier launched modern vertebrate paleontology. He originated the major classification of living things based on the nervous system: Vertebrata, Articulata, Mollusca, and Radiata.

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First-Century Synagogue Discovered in Magdala

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

The decision of the Rev. Juan M. Solana to build a retreat center in Galilee has led to an interesting archaeological find: “the presumed hometown of Mary Magdalene and an ancient synagogue where...

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Religious Toleration

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

Thomas Helwys was one of the early Puritans in 17th century England. He and his fellow Protestant believers met in secret to avoid punishment for dissenting with the state religion.

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Same-Sex Marriage Is “Expanding Our Sense of Possibilities”

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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John Witherspoon: Pastor, Professor, and Patriot

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

John Witherspoon was born in Scotland in 1723 and emigrated to the colony of New Jersey when he was called as president of Princeton University in 1768.

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Salt and Light in 19th Century England

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

Titus Salt was a contemporary of of John Cadbury, whom I wrote about last Thursday, and there are similarities in their stories.

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Wedgwood Abolitionist

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

You may be familiar with Wedgwood pottery. One of the most distinct of Josiah Wedgwood’s designs is jasper ware—most commonly with blue or green glaze with classic figures applied in white. He was...

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What Is Marriage from a Policy Perspective?

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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Educating the Deaf

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

Gallaudet University, the first university in the United States focusing on educating deaf people, was named in honor of the founder’s father, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.

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Quakers and Constitutional Freedom

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

You remember William Penn from history class. He was granted the colony of Pennsylvania by the king in payment for debts owed his father.

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Utilitarian Atheists Aren’t “Just as Moral,” They’re “Differently Moral”

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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Character at the Keyboard

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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Christianity’s Uniqueness

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

In reply to the critics who claim Christianity was just a copy-cat religion among the ancient religions, it’s helpful to take a look at how an ancient adherent of these pagan religions viewed...

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