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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 14, 2021 2:45 AM
Greg explains how the issue of abortion is addressed in the Bible and responds to
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
John Wycliffe was so despised by the church because of his reform efforts that 20 years after his death in 1384, declared a heretic by a church council, his bones were exhumed, burned, and strewn...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 10:07 PM
We all expect the Spanish Inquisition to show up sooner or later in our discussions with atheists. Does the presence of the Inquisition in Christian history discredit all of Christianity? Does it...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 8, 2020 11:39 PM
Despite all the missing girls in India who were lost to abortion, an economist is arguing that laws against sex-selection abortion are the wrong way to go.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
After more than a decade of training Oregon Right to Life students and taking them to the streets of Portland to talk to people about abortion, Alan noticed a possible new trend this year.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 21, 2022 11:07 PM
The topic of abortion is about to heat up dramatically with the likely overturning of Roe v. Wade. Here’s something to help you make a case against abortion in less than a minute.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
If you genuinely believe there is no truth, can you still be a Christian?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
discrimination, God being unfair to the Israelites in Egyptian slavery, a book on Bible
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Paul Brand was born to missionary parents in India. He became a surgeon in England and returned to India to care for leprosy patients.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Quantum physics. Ugh. The term itself is enough to make grown men weep and send theologians scurrying. It can also send chills up the spine of the Christian marshalling evidence from science for...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 25, 2019 10:44 PM
What was Jesus loving and accepting regarding during His ministry? Greg clarifies a common misconception.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Greg discusses consideration, gender identity, and bathrooms, then proceeds to answer calls about if the people with demons Jesus cast out were really mentally ill, and how to evaluate...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
How the monasteries preserved and advanced education and culture in the middle ages...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
and the is-ought fallacy helps us to answer an important question about what the Bible
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Nov 30, 2023 9:25 PM
New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman offers an example of what he believes to be an irreconcilable contradiction in the Christmas account. But, while Matthew and Luke give some different details, it’s...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 30, 2023 7:59 PM
Some people argue that since Eve was formed out of a rib containing male DNA, she was a transgender woman, and therefore God approves of people transitioning. Here’s why this argument doesn’t work.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
Could it be that our acceptance of abortion, like acceptance of the slave trade, is still mainly a matter of ignorance?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Today is the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade and a good time to report on a recent poll that tried to get beyond the “pro-life” and “pro-choice” labels people claim for themselves to...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Alan interviews Christopher Yuan about his new book, Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God’s Grand Story.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
Egyptian Christians are typically pro-life. Many, however, struggle with being consistent, especially in the case of rape. This is a vexing problem in any part of the world, but it becomes more...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 7, 2022 1:36 AM
whether Paul ever got a chance to stand before Caesar, whether we can trust the Bible
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
A caller to the radio program asked about answering a historical challenge to Luke 2 that Bart Ehrman has raised.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
The future of thoughtful Christianity does not belong to best-selling authors or popular speakers. Rather, it will be determined by people like you—committed disciples in the local church with warm...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
When Christopher Yuan became a Christian, he had every reason to accept pro-gay theology; but when he studied it, here’s what he found.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM
Given the brave new world we live in, we can’t presume that medical technologies are consistent with Christian ethics. We must do our due diligence and investigate.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 5, 2023 11:36 PM
In the controversy over how to answer the question “What is a woman?” some proposed definitions are circular or even absurd. Here’s how you can respond accurately.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM
Did the Supreme Court enact a law that encourages the concept of unequal rights, contradicting the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Israeli mathematicians and archaeologists say they have found evidence to suggest that key biblical texts may have been composed earlier than some scholars think.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 30, 2022 5:43 PM
Here’s why you shouldn’t interpret phrases in ancient Scripture through the lens of modern English idioms.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Greg talks about Chuck Smith, fourth trimester abortion, we were made to work, and more.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
In an interview posted today on the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Frank Beckwith used an illustration to clarify the truth that unborn human beings are, in fact, persons who can be wronged by...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
How should Christians respond when those who identify as gay or lesbian come to their church?
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
That’s the challenge I’ve heard a number of times from advocates of starving Terri Schiavo to death. It usually comes in the conversation when what they’ve offered so far in the way of...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
Jesus, though a true human, was no mere mortal. Rather, He was and is God’s Son, the world’s unique, one-and-only Savior; and if Jesus were not God the Son, He could not be the Savior, either.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 2, 2019 10:10 PM
Many in Christendom today, like Pilate, are more concerned with satisfying the crowd than being faithful to Jesus. Culture may be confused on salvation, abortion, gender, marriage, and sex. Don’t...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 20, 2020 8:18 PM
As a Christian ambassador, your biggest challenge may be making sense of the problem of evil. Surprisingly, though, evil is actually evidence for God, not against Him.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
It seems that sometimes, when it serves the story, the fact that life begins at conception is perfectly clear to both scientists and the media.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
You’ve seen plants referred to by their scientific names, such as Rosa rubiginosa. That form of naming plants and other living things was introduced by a Christian who was a scientist named Carolus...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
The Supreme Court’s decision on whether or not corporations like Hobby Lobby are protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act came down today. Here’s a quick summary.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for December 2013 You know the gay rights narrative. Homosexuals are born that way, change is impossible, and their behavior is morally permissible.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Rev. Dr. John Scudder, Sr., founded the first Western Medical Mission in Asia in Ceylon in 1819. He also founded a family of medical missionaries whose combined service covers four...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Dec 16, 2021 12:35 AM
You might have heard that we celebrate Christmas on December 25th because Emperor Constantine decided to Christianize a pagan holiday. But is that story true?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Wrongly assuming that homosexuality is either something one is born with or a choice often leads people to the conclusion that we’re not accountable for our desires. Alan explains why this is a...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 21, 2020 7:04 PM
Domestic terrorism. “A brutal, cowardly act of murder.” “Mass murder.” “A national conspiracy to commit domestic terrorism.” These are perfect descriptions of what abortion is.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
If you “just take Christianity on faith” you may be in trouble...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 22, 2022 1:20 AM
Tim and Alan make a quick pro-life case then chat about responses to some popular pro-choice memes that claim life begins at first breath, a fetus is only a potential human, you can freeze an...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
After refusing to bake a cake that said, “Support gay marriage,” a couple in Northern Ireland was convicted of political and sexual orientation discrimination, but a LGBT activist is...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
After speaking on abortion at a recent event, a Christian man asked me why I didn’t say, “Abortion is murder...”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Aug 1, 2019 6:23 PM
In his book, Unspeakable: Facing up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror, Os Guinness describes the difference a worldview can make.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 1, 2021 9:40 PM
If you only had a ten-minute opening statement, a five-minute rebuttal, and a five minute closing statement, how would you defend the pro-life view? Alan shares his first debate on abortion.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for March 2009 There’s one fact about you I’m sure of: even though you’ll live forever, someday your earthly body will die.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Here in California, our governor and attorney general refused to defend our democratically-established constitutional amendment maintaining the definition of marriage as one man and one woman.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
What would happen if the bones of Jesus were discovered tomorrow? Imagine archaeologists find an ossuary—bone box—with Jesus’ name on it, and they are able to say conclusively that these are...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On May 27, 2021 9:05 PM
A recent interview is a helpful summary of what textual criticism reveals to us about the reliability of the New Testament text.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
The answer to this question depends on how you define “natural.”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Nick Roen, who has same-sex attractions, suggests “An Alternative Script for Same-Sex Attraction” for the church to offer Christians.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Greg talks about God answering prayers, a relationship with Jesus, handling stress in debates, and more.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
You can’t talk to a skeptic for long without hearing objections about the reliability of the biblical text, so this is a topic we all need to be familiar with.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
Greg answers questions about what the biblical basis is for thinking people go to hell immediately at death, if imprecatory psalms are still usable, why God didn’t make Adam, Eve, Cain, and Jesus...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
There are some important questions about future medical decisions that you need to think through now so that your care will reflect both your wishes and the truth of Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Comparing opponents of same-sex marriage to those who opposed interracial marriage is common, but not accurate. The arguments of same-sex marriage advocates actually have more in common with those...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for March 2013 Today, more than ever, it is difficult to maintain a Christian view of sexuality, let alone homosexuality.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
The discovery of the Pool of Bethesda in the late 19th century confirms the historical setting in John 5 and supports John’s claim that he was an eyewitness to what he reports.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 9, 2023 11:40 PM
When the subject of a person’s sexual sin comes up in conversation, is there a way to share the gospel without sounding bigoted or judgmental?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
During this “silly season” of presidential politics, it is not uncommon to hear something I think is odd.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
In Australia, same-sex marriage activists are upset that polyamorists are trying to jump on their equality bandwagon, but they have no principled way to exclude them.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
Being pro-life is not merely an attitude. It’s a behavior—it’s something you do. Here are seven steps you can take to make a difference in the lives of the unborn and their mothers.
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Web Content Article · By aaron brake On Jul 31, 2019 4:27 PM
The objection that pro-lifers are being inconsistent if they support capital punishment is sometimes raised. Here are some ideas to help you think through this.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2020 6:39 AM
Alan discusses whether or not the unborn is merely a part of the mother’s body.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Most people who promote transgenderism are interested in doing the loving thing. They’re just wrong about what the loving thing to do is.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 10, 2024 11:48 PM
How should Christians respond to stores that celebrate and/or promote homosexuality and transgenderism during Pride Month? Alan shares his approach.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Sometimes we can infer Jesus’ view on something we have no record of by listening carefully to His view on a related thing He did weigh in on.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Postmodernism is on a crash course with Christianity. In fact, we’ve already collided. Here’s how to sort through the wreckage.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 4, 2019 12:09 AM
Because we all live in God’s world and are all made in God’s image, there are things all people know—about morality, guilt, etc.—that are embedded deep within their hearts, and this knowledge can...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 28, 2020 12:45 AM
You need to be prepared with specific plans to help you engage atheists’ objections thoughtfully and with grace when you encounter them.
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