When Teens Wish They Could “Unpost” (Interview with Jonathan McKee)
Have you ever regretted something you posted on social media? Don’t feel bad, 57% of Americans who use social media have posted something they regret afterward. And that’s just adults. Now jump ...
Learning from Academics Who Left Mormonism
Most of my readers know my personal connection to Mormonism; I have six half-brothers and sisters who were raised in the Mormon faith. When I first become interested in Christianity, I ...
What Hypocrisy Teaches Us
By Al Serrato
Christians are all hypocrites!
How often do apologists for the faith encounter that objection? Yes, there are hypocrites in the church, at least in the sense that none of us ...
10 Things to Say When Your Child Says They Don’t Believe in God Anymore
By Natasha Crain
This weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at the ReTHINK Student Apologetics Conference (there are more of these conferences coming—be sure to check out the link ...
Yes, We Can Make the Case for Christianity with Music
At the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, we often talk about the importance of worldview. Each of us, as Christians, ought to allow our Christian beliefs to shape the way we think about ...
4 Major Reasons Why People Become Atheists
By Brian Chilton
The psalmist David wrote, “The fool says in his heart, ‘There’s no God.’ They are corrupt; they do vile deeds. There is no one who does good” (Psalm 14:1, CSB). The psalmist ...
The Importance of Defining Terms
By Luke Nix
Introduction
A few years ago I listened to the podcast "The Word Nerds". This podcast helped me gain an appreciation for the power of the English language. In my conversations with ...
Are There “Limits” to God’s Power?
Christians claim God is “all-powerful”. Does this mean He can accomplish anything? Skeptics often test this notion by offering the following challenge: “Can the all-powerful Christian God create ...
Why Is God So Hidden?
As a young atheist, I denied the existence of God for practical, experiential reasons. During my elementary school years, I found it difficult to understand why anyone would believe in God ...
5 Earth-Shattering Events Linked to the Bible
In the recent update to my father’s classic book Evidence that Demands a Verdict, we begin with a chapter on the uniqueness of the Bible. Unquestionably, in comparison to every ...
Jesus on the Problem of Evil
By Aaron Brake
In Luke 13:1-5 we have Jesus’ clearest teaching on the problem of evil:[1]
Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had ...
Who Wrote the Book of Jude?
By Brian Chilton
Over the past few months, we have been examining the authors and background information for the books of the New Testament. For this article, we will examine a little book ...
Does God Just Want Me to Be Happy?
Along with my regular blog here at seanmcdowell.org, I am now featuring occasional guest posts from some students in the Biola M.A. in Christian Apologetics that I personally had the privilege ...
Who Created God?
Richard Dawkins, the famous English evolutionary biologist and renowned atheist, revived an objection related to God’s existence in his book, The God Delusion. In the fourth chapter (Why There ...
5 Arguments for The Existence of Free Will
By Evan Minton
Free Will is a topic debated among Christians and even some non-Christians. The Christians who affirm that men have free will in the libertarian sense are Arminians, Molinists, ...
Modern Thinkers Increasingly Confirm a Designed Universe
By Joel Furches
The idea that the universe might bear some marks of design has traditionally been denied in academic circles. Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins has famously stated ...
Why Didn’t God Heal Nabeel Qureshi?
How does a man facing his own premature death exude an uplifting combination of grace, love and truth? My friend Nabeel Qureshi, who has done that for more than a year, died at age 34 on ...
Remembering Nabeel Qureshi
By Brian Chilton
The Christian community lost a wonderful man of God this past Saturday, September 16, 2017. Nabeel Qureshi entered his eternal home after a year-long battle with stomach ...
Who Wrote the Letters of John?
By Brian Chilton
The website has devoted substantial time in exploring the identity of the authors of the New Testament texts. This journey continues as we explore the three letters attributed ...
Humorous Bible Translation Errors…and What They Mean for Biblical Reliability
Jewish and Christian scribes took inordinate care in copying the Bible from one generation to the next. For a variety of reasons, we can have great confidence that our present Bibles have ...
