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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.
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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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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Sometimes people cite polygamy as evidence that the definition of marriage has changed over time, proving it to be malleable according to the culture.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Federal Judge Vaughn R. Walker wrote in his decision on the California proposition defining marriage as one man and one woman
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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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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.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
I was saddened and surprised to hear that Exodus International is closing down.
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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...
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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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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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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.
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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?
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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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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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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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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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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Alan responds to a claim from the Qur’an that Jesus didn’t die on the cross.
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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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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
We rarely hear about the pagan religious ideas promoted by the Nazis, yet they were ideologically opposed to Christianity and intended to replace it with their own pagan ideology.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.”
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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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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Sometimes people are puzzled. They think, Shouldn’t we teach Christians about Christianity? Why are you teaching them about Islam and taking them to mosques? That’s a good question.
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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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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.
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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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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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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Alan explains the details of a mosque experience and the benefits of taking Christians to mosques.
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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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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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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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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Thomas Sydenham, born in 1624, was a Christian physician known as the father of English medicine.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Richard of Wallingford lived in the early 14th century...
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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.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Alan answers the question of whether we are at war with Muslims. He also offers a handy tactic to help you determine whether a doctrine or behavior is truly Islamic.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Angie Mosteller says, “There is no indication that ancient Samhain was ever a festival of the dead or dedicated to some Lord of the Dead.”
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, was a remarkable woman in her time. She was born in 1707 to aristocracy, suffered loss, family disputes, and bad health.
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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?
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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.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Since the Crusades are back in the news, these excerpts from a 2005 article by Crusade historian Thomas F. Madden will help you brush up on the basics.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
There have been a couple of incidents where a school has asked a Muslim (or perhaps just an Arabic-speaking student) to recite the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic.
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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...
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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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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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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Evidence that literary manuscripts in the ancient world would last hundreds of years suggests that some of the earliest New Testament copies we posses may have been copied directly from one of...
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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.
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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.
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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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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
Alan explains how he knows authority is the key issue when talking to Muslims.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Though miracles have a supernatural cause, the evidence of the effect is available for our scrutiny just as the evidence for any historical event is available to us. Here’s a brief outline of...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 11:25 PM
Alan discusses the implications of not subscribing to a particular religion and the most probable beliefs that follow.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 5:49 PM
In Christianity, salvation is a gift rather than a reward for works. Alan shares why Christianity is different from many other religions in this way.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 6:57 PM
Alan unpacks the unique reality of Christianity, as compared to other world religions, as the only means of salvation.
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