CrossExamined Blog
Tackling today’s toughest questions, these posts explore topics on God, morality, science, and culture.
Whether you’re a skeptic or believer, each article challenges your worldview and sharpens your thinking. Engaging, thought-provoking, and unapologetic, this is a place to dig deeper and follow the truth wherever it leads.
Why Do Some Christians Say “All Sins Are Equally Bad” And “Everyone Is Equally Guilty”?
Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsBy Wintery Knight We were having a discussion about whether the Bible teaches that sex before marriage is morally wrong, and someone said “impure thoughts counts as adultery… there isn’t a virgin among us.” Regarding her point that lust is equal to adultery, and so no one is really a virgin, here’s Ligonier Ministries: In demonstrating that […]
Book Review: Another Gospel? by Alisa Childers
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Timothy Fox In my last blog post, I shared some of the most important books regarding cultural issues that I read in the year since the COVID lockdowns began in March 2020. While those books dealt with the culture at large, my next two reads focused on cultural and theological issues impacting the church: Confronting […]
Why Does the Church Need Apologetics?
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Mia Langford Apologetics is having an overdue moment in the spotlight, thanks in part to challenges from media influence on the culture. Dr. Ray Ciervo, apologist, pastor, and SES Alum, joins us this week to discuss how someone can help get apologetics training started at their local church, what issues should be prioritized in […]
Why Does the Media Give A Pass To Biden’s Faith?
Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsBy Jason Jimenez Biden, the 46th president, is America’s second Catholic President. The first was John F. Kennedy—when he became President in 1961. From the start of his campaign, Biden wanted everything to be about his faith. A favored campaign slogan for the Biden camp was the “battle for the soul of the nation.” It […]
Why Don’t the Synoptic Gospels Mention Lazarus?
4. Is the NT True?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Ryan Leasure Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead is one of the most well-known stories in the Gospels. Yet, for some reason, Matthew, Mark, and Luke don’t mention it. This head-scratching absence has raised a lot of doubts about its historicity. After all, this story seems too significant to leave out. As you can imagine, […]
3 Reasons Why Christians Should Be Evidential Investigators Instead of Experience Junkies
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Alisa Childers Two men. Both grew up in Christian homes in suburban America. Both have famous Evangelical fathers. Both made personal decisions for Christ and became actively involved and well-known in ministry. One walked away from his faith and became a secular humanist. The other has become one of the top apologists and defenders […]
Resurrection Defense Series: Reasons to Accept the Empty Tomb
Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Brian Chilton Gary Habermas is no stranger to those who study the historicity of Jesus’s resurrection. He is a world-renowned scholar on the resurrection who serves as a Research Scholar teaching in the Ph.D. program in Theology and Apologetics at Liberty University’s School of Divinity. Habermas’s claim to fame is his six minimal facts […]
“Sanctification” and “Justification”… What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Andrew Cowley Defining and explaining the meaning of “sanctification” and “justification” can be a daunting task—yet a task that every believer should thoroughly dedicate themselves to. It is imperative that we understand what these two terms mean, how they apply to our faith, and how that affects our Christian theology. Make no mistake, each […]
5 Important Books I Read During 1 Year of COVID (That You Should Read Too)
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Timothy Fox I’ve always enjoyed reading. And when the COVID lockdowns began in March 2020, there wasn’t much else to do for a long time. I took full advantage of this, though, and over the next year, I read a lot of books over a wide range of topics. For instance, I read the entire Chronicles of Narnia series by […]
UK Police Arrest 71-Year-Old Pastor For Defining Marriage The Way Jesus Defined Marriage
Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Wintery Knight I think it’s important for American Christians to learn lessons about what happens to religious liberty by looking at what happens to Christians in other times and places when Democrats (secular leftists) take power. This time, let’s look at a story from the UK, which has been on a 30-year-run into far-left […]
Is God Fading Away?
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Mia Langford The “omnis” of theology – omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, etc. – are under increasing attack, and not just from what are recognized as more theologically liberal camps of Christianity. Examples abound – even from within evangelicalism — of various attributes of God being seemingly “picked off” by scholarly fire, or compromised among the […]
Can Jesus’ Story Still Surprise You?
Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Bob Perry History shows that prudence and wisdom are rarely on the side of new ways of looking at Scripture. This is especially true of the “progressive” bent toward remaking Jesus in a postmodern image. So, when I first heard about Tom Gilson’s new book, Too Good To Be False, I have to admit I was confused. […]
Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead? A Historian, an Atheist, a Skeptic, a Theologian, and an Ex-Con Weigh In
CrossExaminedBy Alisa Childers It’s that time of year again—the time when Christians come together to celebrate the pinnacle of our faith, the resurrection of Jesus. It’s also the time when news outlets like Time, the Discovery Channel, and Newsweek unleash their skepticism about Christianity, the Bible, and the resurrection. It can be confusing to wade […]
What Our Perpetual Fight With Entropy Tells Us
2. Does God Exist?, Atheism, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Al Serrato Many years ago, when I was younger and much less wise, I decided it would be a good father-son project to invest in an older car that I could restore. (Note to fathers: it’s a much better bonding idea to find something your kids like than the other way around). So, after […]
Simon of Cyrene, Cleopas, and the Eyewitness Testimony of the Gospels
4. Is the NT True?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Ryan Leasure Modern critics doubt that eyewitnesses stand behind the four Gospels. In fact, they argue that the first followers of Jesus told others about Jesus who told others about Jesus who told others about Jesus, and eventually someone wrote all those stories down—much like the game of telephone. According to this theory, anonymous figures wrote […]
Resurrection Defense Series: Early Eyewitness Testimony and the Failure of Hallucinations to Account for Them
Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Brian Chilton Regardless of whether an event is recent or of antiquity, the researched event holds greater historical probability if it holds a higher number of eyewitnesses. The more eyes on the event, the greater chance the historian has in understanding what transpired. When it comes to the resurrection of Jesus, numerous individuals encountered […]
Missing Melanchthon
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Tim Stratton Recently I have been accused of “historical eisegesis.”[1] According to Wikipedia, “eisegesis is the process of interpreting text in such a way as to introduce one’s own presuppositions . . . It is commonly referred to as reading into the text.” This is definitely a problem when someone does this when reading Scripture, […]
A Matter of Days: Interpreting the First Chapter of Genesis
Theology and Christian ApologeticsI have been publishing a series of articles addressing how one might best approach interpreting the early chapters of Genesis, and how science might illuminate Biblical texts and guide our hermeneutics. In this article, I will explore the text of the first chapter of Scripture, Genesis 1, with a view towards determining whether this text […]
Finding Common Ground In A Time of Stark Division
Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Luke Nix “While We All Want to Believe That We Are Committed to Truth Rather Than A Narrative, Our Actions In Conversation—How We Mistreat Evidence, Mischaracterize Opposing Views And Arguments, And Attack The Challenger Rather Than The Challenge—Often Tell A Different Story.” Luke Nix The Importance of Recognizing Common Ground In these times of […]
Is the Bible Our Highest Authority?
4. Is the NT True?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy David Pallmann Many Christians believe that it is wrong to offer unbelievers evidence for the truth of Christianity.[1] They argue that the traditional method of apologetics dishonors Scripture by not giving it the respect it is due. The concern is that offering evidence for the truth of Scripture gives evidence more weight than Scripture. The […]