“Dr. William Lane Craig, one of Christianity’s foremost philosophers and apologists, will debate Dr. Michael Shermer, founder of Skeptic magazine and one of America’s leading skeptical voices.” - RNS
3 Ways to Respond to Academic Critiques of Christianity
“Christians have no reason to be intimidated in the academy, nor should they feel out of place walking across a university campus with a Bible under their arm and confidence in the faith they profess.” - Word by Word
Jesus' divinity wasn't invented by a council. Jews already believed it
“There is a confident story told in a lot of lecture halls: the first Christians met a Jewish teacher, and only later—under the influence of Greek philosophy or by decree at a fourth-century council—did they inflate Him into God…. a tidy story. It’s also almost exactly backward.” - CPost
Christianity Isn’t Just True; It’s Reality
“… most claims of most religions are not testable. Or, to put it in the language of logic, they are not falsifiable. But it matters immensely to Christianity whether the events described in Scripture really happened.” - Breakpoint
Science didn't kill God. Naturalism just assumed He was dead.
“Science is a method for studying the natural world. Naturalism is a worldview claiming that nature is all there is. Those are not the same thing. Science asks how the natural world works. Naturalism insists, before the discussion even begins, that nothing exists beyond nature.” - CPost
Why All Our Beliefs Involve Faith
“some Christians… think of faith as the opposite of reason, as a blind leap of faith. But most Christians throughout history, as well as the New Testament, have maintained that faith is simply trusting something on the basis of good reasons and evidence.” - Adam Lloyd Johnson
Alex O’Connor Says Scripture Supports Slavery. He’s Wrong.
“When debating slavery, O’Connor raises uncomfortable issues that some Christians would rather avoid. While he’s right to name these tensions, his interpretation of the Bible’s teaching on slavery subtly distorts Scripture’s message.” - TGC
C. S. Lewis, the New Atheists, and the Failure to Disprove God with Alister McGrath
Former atheist “McGrath sees how much desire determines what we believe about the universe. He says, ‘The human desire for unaccountability leads to the metaphysical conclusion that there should not be a God.’” - TGC
Recover Real Dialogue in a Digital Age – Reviewing ‘My Apologetics Dinner Party’ by Louis Markos
“Markos teaches by example as he presents a dialogue based on a lively conversation he experienced over Thanksgiving dinner with guests of various faiths. Through stories and conversations, he helped people wrestle with their objections to Christianity. More significantly, he shows us how we can do that too.” - TGC
My favorite apologetics argument (and why it’s not the one you think)
“While Plantinga focuses on the unreliability of reasoning if the brain is a product of blind evolution, Lewis examines the validity of logic itself if such reasoning is solely dependent upon non-rational matter.” - CPost