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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Are the Chick-fil-A Cows on to Something?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

Humans are more valuable than animals and so eating meat is permissible.

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Could “Good” and “Evil” Exist without God?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

Reasonable Faith has released another apologetics video, and this one explains the moral argument for the existence of God.

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Are the Chick-fil-A Cows on to Something?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM

Alan answers the question of whether people who eat meat are unjustly discriminating against sentient animals.

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The Biased Constraint of Scientism

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM

Here’s what J. Warner Wallace has to say about the charge that Christians are too biased to fairly evaluate evidence.

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Finding Truth: Twilight of the Gods

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

Since secular philosophies, like religions, point to an ultimate reality, they can be evaluated, just as religions can, by identifying their idols.

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Finding Truth: Secular Leaps of Faith

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

The third of Nancy Pearcey’s five principles for evaluating worldviews is, “Test the idol: Does it contradict what we know about the world?”

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The Christian Worldview Grounds Human Dignity

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

There are many ideas we simply take for granted as natural and obvious, when in fact they didn’t exist until the arrival of Christianity changed things completely.

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Finding Truth: Why Worldviews Commit Suicide

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

Nancy Pearcey explains how to find where a worldview contradicts itself.

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Finding Truth: How Critical Thinking Saves Faith

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

Some Christians think the way to avoid being “conformed to this world” (Rom. 12:2) is by avoiding “worldly” ideas. A better strategy is to learn the skills to critically evaluate them.

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Relativism’s Moral Hero Disproves Relativism

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

Any worldview that lacks the ability to explain what we know to be true—that there are objective moral facts, regardless of whether an individual or an entire society rejects them—is devastatingly...

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More Doubling Down on Faulty Principles

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

Remember when I talked about our culture biting absurd bullets? Here’s how it works.

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Marriage Decision Is a “Totalitarian Impulse to Redefine Reality”

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

The Supreme Court decision yesterday won’t just affect marriage. Giving the government the power to redefine a pre-political institution changes the relationship of the government to all of our...

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Advice from Chesterton: Don’t Take Down the Fence until You Know Why It’s There

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

Most people—religious or otherwise—have no idea what marriage is, why it exists, and what we need it for, and it’s dangerous to fundamentally change things when you don’t understand why...

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The Fruit of Relativism Is Naked Power

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

More disturbing than the fact that a new definition of marriage is now the law of the land is the way in which this transformation was accomplished.

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Evidence for God and the Human Heart

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM

Many people believe that belief in God’s existence is merely an evidence issue. That is, given enough evidence, everyone would believe. But is it really that simple? Does belief in God merely...

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Could God Be Merely a Function of the Brain?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 11:41 PM

Alan responds to an argument against God’s existence.

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Do Our Souls Continue to Develop in Heaven?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 4:19 PM

Alan distinguishes between two types of soul development and shares his thoughts on which one we’ll experience in Heaven.

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Do You Need Religion to Have Morals?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 5:20 PM

Alan responds to an atheist’s challenge: “You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.”

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Is Christianity the Only Way?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 26, 2019 7:01 PM

Tim highlights the eternal significance and exclusivity of Christianity.

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Challenge Response: If Christianity Were True, Enlightened Countries Would Believe It

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 9:56 PM

Here’s my response to this week’s challenge:

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How Aristotle Can Help Christian Morality, Part 2

Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM

Aristotle saw the development of habituated virtue as being central to human flourishing. How does his view match up with the biblical view?

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The Evening News

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 31, 2021 5:01 PM

These news tidbits illustrating the ideologically-driven downward trajectory of secular culture are “iceberg tips” connected to a larger story, a spiritual drama that lies behind the headlines.

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Other Worldviews

The Intolerance of Tolerance

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

Tolerance, one of America’s noblest virtues, has been so distorted it’s become a vice.

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Philosophy

Leaping from Frogs to Morality

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

Learn how to be consistent in your moral reasoning.

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Earth Day and Worldviews

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:07 PM

If Earth Day is justified by the moral concept of stewardship of the planet, its celebrants might be surprised about what else comes in that worldview package.

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Worldviews & Earth Day

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

If Earth Day is justified by the moral concept of stewardship of the planet, its celebrants might be surprised about what else comes in that worldview package.

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Why Hate Shouldn’t Be a Crime

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM

The passage of C-250 in the Canadian Parliament this spring pushed hate crime legislation to new extremes. Can one be against hate crimes, yet still oppose hate crime laws? Here are three good...

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Street Tactics – Part 1

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 10, 2020 3:37 PM

The tactical game plan Greg often speaks of is a powerful strategy, but it has a modest liability; there is a speed bump he wants to help you navigate.

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Knowledge and Truth

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:07 PM

For any knowledge at all to be possible there must be true things and there must be false things.

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