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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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Other Worldviews

Is Intelligent Design Just God-of-the-Gaps?

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

Alan explains why intelligent design is not another God-of-the-gaps explanation, but rather a scientific theory that provides the best explanation of the evidence.

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

The Issue that Can’t be Ignored

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

Alan explains why there’s one apologetic topic that he gets more questions about and more challenges on than any other.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Christian Living

Serving Arab Christians in Egypt

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

Alan gives highlights from his recent trip to Egypt where he trained Arab Christians in theology and apologetics.

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

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.

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

Marriage Equality Already Exists

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

Alan offers a helpful question to answer the charge of same-sex marriage advocates that claim homosexuals are denied equal protection under the law.

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

Is a Human Embryo Without a Brain Alive?

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

Alan responds to an interesting defense for abortion. People argue that since a brain dead person is not alive, an unborn human embryo can’t be alive either because it doesn’t have a brain.

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

Is a Fetus Without a Brain a Person?

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

Alan responds to the challenge that abortion is permissible in cases where the fetus doesn’t have a brain.

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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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Is There a Life Unworthy of Life?

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

Alan explains what happened during his recent abortion presentation to medical students at USC’s Keck School of Medicine

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

Does the Biblical View of Marriage Contain Multiple Definitions?

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

Advocates of same-sex marriage attempt to dismiss the biblical view of marriage by claiming that scripture condones multiple definitions of marriage. Here’s my response to this challenge.

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

Are Homosexuals Going to Hell?

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

Alan answers whether homosexuals are going to hell and offers a tip for how to respond when someone asks you this question.

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You Don’t Know the Real Jesus

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

Alan responds to a Muslim video that claims we don’t know the real Jesus.

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

Why I Answered an Argument for Same-sex Marriage

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

I explain why I responded to a recent YouTube video that went viral. It’s of Zach Wahls making an appeal for same-sex marriage to the Iowa House of Representatives.

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

Are early human embryos individuals if they can twin?

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

Alan responds to the challenge that early embryos aren’t individual human beings because some of them can twin and then even recombine.

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

Taking the Easy Route after Rape

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

If a woman is raped and gets pregnant, is the easier choice to have a quick abortion or endure nine months of pregnancy? Find out the surprising answer in this episode.

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

Answering a Case for Same-sex Marriage

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

Alan responds to the recent viral YouTube video of Zach Wahls making an appeal for same-sex marriage to the Iowa House of Representatives.

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

Should We Leave the Abortion Debate to Women?

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

Alan responds to the challenge that men shouldn’t say anything about abortion because it’s a women’s issue.

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

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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The Power of Graphic Images

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

What does the FDA and smoking have in common with the pro-life movement? Find out in this edition of “Thinking Out Loud”

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

Answering the Challenge of the Blind Men and the Elephant

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

Alan responds to the challenge that the parable of the blind men and the elephant is an argument against religious belief and Christianity.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Christian Living

Serving the Church in Egypt, While in Lebanon

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

Alan talks about his recent trip to Lebanon and training Egyptians on witnessing to Muslims.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Christian Living

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.

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

Outmanned, but Not Outgunned

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

Alan debates the entire philosophy club at a secular college on abortion and lives to tell about it.

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

Pro-Life and Pro-Death Penalty?

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

Alan responds to the challenge that pro-life advocates are inconsistent if they favor the death penalty.

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Are Homosexuals Born that Way?

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

Alan responds to the claim that homosexuals are born that way.

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

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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My Most Controversial Teaching

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

A man yells at Alan while he’s teaching and walks out of his class. Find out why in this podcast.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Christian Living

Not Making the Social Justice Issue List

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

Since this month marks the 38th year of legalized abortion in the United States, Alan reflects on whether abortion counts as a social justice issue.

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

Freedom in Christ Behind Bars

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

Alan reflects on his time in prison and the surprise that was waiting for him.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Christian Living

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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Social Justice Begins at Conception

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

Alan explains why abortion rarely makes the social justice list and why it should be at the top of the list.

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

Compromise Is Not an Option

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.

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

Less Is More: A Case for the Resurrection

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.

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

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

How I Measure Success

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

Alan explains that Christians shouldn’t measure their success on results, but on something else.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Christian Living

Blaise Pascal: Biography

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: History

Early Abolitionist

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: History

Based on Eyewitness Accounts

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.”

Media Type: Article Topic: History

Leverage That’s Global

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

Alan discusses his monthly letter for October 2013.

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

How the Early Church Sought to Resolve Textual Variants

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: History

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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The Early Power of the Press

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: History

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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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.

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

The Original Text Is Not a Physical Object

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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Updated Numbers for Ancient Manuscripts

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.

Media Type: Article Topic: History

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