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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Christianity Today reports: [Scientists] have learned how to reprogram adult cells so that they can do many things an embryonic cell can do.
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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Because of all the recent discoveries of copies of ancient texts, many Christian apologists may be working with outdated numbers.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
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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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Alan answers the question of whether killing an abortionist to protect the unborn is parallel to killing a person who attempts to murder a toddler.
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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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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
A discussion between John Ensor, Francis Chan, and John Piper covers the impact of graphic pictures, how teaching their congregations about human dignity and abortion glorifies God, and more.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Alan answers the challenge from abortion-choice advocates who ask pro-lifers, “How many babies have you adopted?”
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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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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 alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
The SLED Test is a simple argument against abortion.
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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 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
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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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 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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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
If you want to start conversations with people about abortion, you don’t need to be a philosopher. All you need is clarity on these three questions.
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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 amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Paul McHugh (former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins) explains why Hopkins stopped doing sex-reassignment surgeries.
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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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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
I was recently interviewed by students about the injustice of abortion. I thought I’d share my answers. This post is the first of two parts.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
I was recently interviewed by students about the injustice of abortion. I thought I’d share my answers. You can read the first part of the interview here. This post is the second part of that...
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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 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 amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Is there any reason to think the contraceptives Hobby Lobby refused to subsidize are actually abortifacients? Dr. Rich Poupard examines this issue.
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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 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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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 amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
When it comes to abortion, our culture uses the very points that normally condemn violence against the young to justify it.
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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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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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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 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 alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
The test was positive. He had cancer. The tumor was only six centimeters, but because it was in his trachea (his windpipe), it had almost completely blocked his ability to breathe.
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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 8:49 PM
A man with ALS explains his anger against those who promote assisted suicide.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Alan explains why embryonic stem cell research is not only morally problematic, but ineffective at treating disease and disability. Instead, he offers a scientific alternative.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
This month, Alan asks, “Must we kill humans to save other humans?“ and Brett talks about the reaction we should expect from the world, even when we’re loving.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
The objection that pro-life advocates or organizations aren’t really pro-life because they don’t also advocate [fill in the blank] is one you’ll encounter. Here’s how Scott Klusendorf responds to it.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
This past November I wrote that embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) had not led to any successful human treatments. I was wrong.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Alan answers the question of whether pro-lifers are inconsistent if they don’t condone the killing of abortion doctors.
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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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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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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
Alan answers the question of whether people who eat meat are unjustly discriminating against sentient animals.
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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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Web Content Article · By stand to reason On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Ten seconds is plenty of time to defend your pro-life views.
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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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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
It seems some politicians are worried about consistent, logical thinking leading from a fetal homicide law to fetal human rights.
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
Alan took his 10 year-old son to UCLA to engage abortion-choice advocates who were twice his son’s age. Find out how and why he did that.
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