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Inherent Legal Difficulties in Same-Sex Marriage

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM

Extra legislation is needed to try to artificially create a similarity between same-sex marriage and opposite-sex marriage because the two are inherently different in ways that are...

Media Type: Article Topic: Sexuality and Gender

Be Ready to Discuss Same-Sex Marriage Today

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM

To equip you for your conversations about the Supreme Court ruling on Prop 8 and DOMA, Ryan Anderson has a helpful, concise article titled “5 Things You Need to Know about the Supreme Court’s...

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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.

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

Are Homosexuals Born that Way?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM

Is there a “gay gene,” and should it change our view of homosexual behavior if there is?

Media Type: Article Topic: Sexuality and Gender

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

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

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

Got Same-Sex Attraction? Things Can Change

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

Most of the world seems to believe that same-sex attraction can’t be changed.

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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

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

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

Kolodny: I Will Dance on Traditional Marriage’s Grave

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

This isn’t the first time a proponent of same-sex marriage has been open about her ultimate goal of destroying marriage, but it’s certainly one of the most straightforward.

Media Type: Article Topic: Sexuality and Gender

Does Our Argument Against Same-sex Marriage Commit the Slippery Slope Fallacy?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

Alan answers the challenge that opponents of same-sex marriage sometimes commit the slippery slope fallacy when they argue that same-sex marriage will lead to other forms of “marriage” like...

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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,...

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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.

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

Michaelson: Gay Culture Will Affect Marriage, Not the Other Way Around

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

A supporter of same-sex marriage argues that “gay marriage really will change the institution of marriage, shifting conceptions around monogamy and intimacy.”

Media Type: Article Topic: Sexuality and Gender

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Slate: Don’t Let the Doctor Assign a Gender to Your Newborn

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

Here’s more evidence that the conflict in our culture over sexuality is, at root, a disagreement over whether human nature is fixed or malleable.

Media Type: Article Topic: Sexuality and Gender

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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...

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

How Same-Sex Marriage Will Affect Friendships

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

Matthew Franck explains the unintended effect same-sex marriage will have on friendships in our society.

Media Type: Article Topic: Sexuality and Gender

Don’t Assume We Should Change the Body to Match the Mind

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

When a person’s mind conflicts with his body, which should we help him to change?

Media Type: Article Topic: Sexuality and Gender

The Reformation the Church Doesn’t Need

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

Alan attended a ’gay Christian’ conference that intends to reform the church to make it affirm practicing homosexuals. Listen to his thoughts about his experience there.

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

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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.

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

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Truth and Compassion in Action

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

Gay activists prepared to protest FIRE Church in Concord, North Carolina.

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Homosexuality to Holiness

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

Our hope for homosexuals is not heterosexuality, but holiness. We’re not trying to make them straight, but lead them straight to Jesus.

Media Type: Article Topic: Sexuality and Gender

“Love Is Love” Isn’t Enough

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

Be careful about the arguments you make for same-sex marriage. You may be arguing for more than you bargained for.

Media Type: Article Topic: Sexuality and Gender

Truth and Compassion in Action

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

Alan explains whether the principle of truth and compassion works when gay activists come to protest your church.

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Every Idea Has Consequences

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

Alan talks about his recent speaking tour in Alberta and explains the impact of same-sex marriage on the Christian culture in Canada.

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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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Why the Supreme Court Should Let States Choose Their Marriage Policy

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

The Supreme Court will hear arguments today on whether or not it’s constitutional to define marriage as a man and a woman. Here’s why they should let the states decide.

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A Marriage Riddle

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

An ethicist, a same-sex marriage activist, and a polyamorist walk into a bar...

Media Type: Article Topic: Sexuality and Gender

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?”

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Should we ban conversion therapy?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

Alan defines some terms in the debate over whether conversion therapy should be banned and, by doing so, answers whether efforts to change a person’s same-sex attraction should ever be attempted.

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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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Clarifying Biblical and Secular Reasons for Same-Sex Attraction

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

I recently posted a video answering a challenge: When did you choose your heterosexuality? Someone asked a follow-up question, and I thought I’d share my response.

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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...

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

No Comparison between SSM and Interracial Marriage

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

Jonathan Rauch, a defender of same-sex marriage, explains why the comparison to racist laws that banned interracial marriage are not parallels to objections to SSM.

Media Type: Article Topic: Sexuality and Gender

Is Same-Sex Marriage a Good Policy Decision?

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

Our new motion graphics video looks at a controversial policy issue.

Media Type: Article Topic: Sexuality and Gender

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...

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Justice Kennedy’s Arguments for Polygamy and Polyamory

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

Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion in Obergefell argues equally well for polygamy and polyamory.

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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...

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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...

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Clear-Thinking Christianity Topic: Philosophy

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.

Media Type: Video Topic: Philosophy

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.

Media Type: Video Topic: Philosophy

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.”

Media Type: Video Topic: Philosophy

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.

Media Type: Video Topic: Philosophy

Does Brain Mapping Prove That Transgender People’s Brains Match Their Perceived Gender?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 9:50 PM

Alan discusses the difference between correlation and causation regarding brain patterns and transgenderism.

Media Type: Video Topic: Sexuality and Gender

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:

Media Type: Video Topic: Philosophy

The Problem with a Christian Attending a Same-Sex Wedding

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 14, 2024 2:55 PM

Should a Christian attend a same-sex wedding? Alan has attended a same-sex wedding in the past but believes he made the wrong decision. In this episode, he unpacks his past reasoning, explains why...

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

Pro-Gay Theology Follows a Pattern of Past Interpretive Mistakes

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 29, 2024 7:32 PM

Alan points out how the interpretive mistakes made by pro-gay theology advocates today are the same mistakes people have made in the past.

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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?

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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...

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Philosophy

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.

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Tactics and Tools

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

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