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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jan 31, 2023 10:40 PM

Tim Barnett responds to a video that claims an infinite being would express itself an infinite number of ways and that all religions must be valid since they all have good teachers and similar...

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Darwinism Is More Than Just a Theory

Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Feb 14, 2023 1:10 AM

Jon Noyes explains how Darwinism impacts every area of our lives when it’s allowed to become an ideology.

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How to Talk to Your Muslim Friends about Jesus

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Feb 17, 2023 11:50 PM

If you feel unprepared, unqualified, or simply apprehensive about talking to your Muslim friends and neighbors about Jesus, check out this simple, practical advice Alan gave in a recent interview.

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Why I Left Atheism for Christianity

Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Mar 21, 2023 2:12 AM

When Jon went looking for answers to several important questions as an atheist, he found that atheism didn’t seem to match up with reality.

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Why My LDS Friend Isn’t Trying to Convert Me to Mormonism

Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Jul 27, 2023 3:09 AM

Robby’s Latter-day Saint friend isn’t interested in trying to convert him to Mormonism, and his view of the afterlife helps explain why.

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Why a Defining Feature of Deconstruction Is Also a Fundamental Flaw

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jan 9, 2024 8:08 PM

Deconstruction is built on subjective preference and has no set destination. Tim Barnett explains how this contrasts starkly with what Jesus said.

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Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Alan Shlemon talks about whether or not Muslims and Christians believe and worship the same God.

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The Problemless Problem of Evil

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Alan offers a simple question that neutralizes the claim that the problem of evil is evidence against God’s existence.

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The Muslim Mission

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Alan talks about taking Christians on the “Muslim Mission,” a 4-day trip to practice engaging Muslims on the street and in mosques.

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Are You Ready to Talk to a Muslim?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Alan tells the story of how he recently role-played a Muslim to a group of Christians. Find out how they responded to the Muslim challenge.

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Is Faith Gullibility?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Alan responds to the challenge that faith is gullibility or believing things in the absence of evidence.

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Why Evolution Is Dogma

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Alan explains why atheists must accept evolution no matter what the science says.

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Squaring Off with Muslims in Prison

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Muslims come into the protestant prison chapel to hear Alan teach Christians how to witness to them.

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The Problemless Problem of Evil

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM

Alan’s monthly letter from July 2012 I had just given a talk at his church when Charlie asked for help.

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Atheism and Universal Human Rights

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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Atheism: More Than Just a Non-Belief

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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“Mormons Aren’t Christians” Is Not an Epithet

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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LDS View of Atonement Clarified

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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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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Did Jesus Not Die on the Cross?

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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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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Nazi Paganism

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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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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Why Take Christians to Mosques?

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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Why I Take Christians to Mosques

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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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 We at War with Muslims?

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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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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One Nation under Allah?

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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