How Then Should We Do Apologetics?

(1) You can believe in God without any evidence. (2) Without God, you can’t know anything at all. These are perhaps the most controversial Christian claims of the 20th century. Both were made by Christian apologists. The first is the claim of Reformed Epistemology and its most prominent advocate, Alvin Plantinga of Notre Dame. The [...]

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(Mis)Understanding Sola Scriptura

The Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura, simply put, is the belief that the Bible, the Word of God alone is the final authority in all matters of Christian faith and practice.  Where Popes or church councils have seemed to violate the plain meaning of Scripture on these matters, it is Scripture alone that has the [...]

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A Two-Way Street: Free Will, Suffering & The Glory Of God

I was on facebook the other day, taking a silly quiz to see how “Reformed” I was.  As it turns out, the quiz was designed by Presbyterians, so it wasn’t very accurate. 
One person, obviously irked by Reformation theology, left a rather cynical comment on the quiz’s wall, along the lines of “child prostitution brings glory to [...]

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R. C. Sproul Interviews Ben Stein

Last night, Ben Stein came to Biola Univeristy to promote his new film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.  In the film, Ben Stein invenstigates the employment termination of several University science professors due to their doubts about Darwinism and support of Intelligent Design.  Find out more about the film here. 
Recently, Dr. R. C. Sproul interviewed Ben Stein [...]

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Darwinism Is The New Dogma

A new book has been released attacking Intelligent Design. And by “new” I of course mean chronologically speaking, for its content is apparently the same old rhetoric (which won’t last much longer. As people begin to learn more about this issue, they’ll have give up the whole “ID is just creationism in disguise” [...]

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A Brief Defense Of The Gospels

And when I say brief, I do mean brief.
In fact, I only wish to deal with a single issue, which will serve to illustrate a broader point.
It was suggested in an earlier discussion by an interlocutor named hokku (click here) that the many discrepancies between the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) show beyond any [...]

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The Same Old Fairy Tales: Atheism And Sex

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you die.
In a nutshell, this is all atheism has to offer. Now, just because Christianity promises a blissful afterlife, that doesn’t make it true or atheism false. But there is something deeper than a mere denial of an afterlife in this famous sentiment. “Eat, drink, [...]

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Stand To Reason On YouTube

Stand To Reason, an apologetics organization designed to provide training and resources in the rational and philosophical defense of Christianity, has just started its own channel on YouTube. They have uploaded many videos on subjects such as the relationship between faith and reason, the meaning of tolerance, and the problem of evil. The [...]

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What Does Theology Have To Do With Abortion?

Gary Wills, a Liberal Roman Catholic, has recently argued in a column for the LA Times that abortion should not be a theological issue. His argument rests on two claims. First, he suggests that the only reason the Religious Right is so desperate to make the abortion issue one of theology is that [...]

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Being More Open-Minded

Striving to be more open-minded is in vogue these days, so I figured I should be blogging about it. Since I find myself with nothing particularly novel or exciting to say about being open-minded, however, I’ve decided I’ll simply share this rather insightful little quote from a far wiser man than I:
If you are [...]

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