By Brian Chilton NOTE: We recently received a question related to this topic so we decided to reblog this entry. We believe this is an extremely important issue we need to deal with as a Christian community. Pastor Rick Warren and his family suffered a great loss as his son died from suicide. Suicide is […]
By Tim Stratton The primary goal of FreeThinking Ministries is to equip the church to engage the culture. In my opinion, no one is doing that better than Brett Kunkle. Kunkle became well-known in the apologetics community through his time at Greg Koukl’s organization, Stand To Reason. Recently, however, Kunkle has branched out and started MAVEN, an organization focused […]
By Michael Sherrard These kinds of questions keep you awake at night. Knowing how and when to talk to your children about sensitive issues isn’t an exact science. But we better figure it out quick. While we contemplate the best way to do it, our little ones are being taught by someone else. The internet, social media, […]
By Rajkumar Richard The question, “Would there be less evil in a world without Satan?” could be relevant, for if the answer to this question is a yes, then we could plausibly ask, “Why did God create angels, i.e., Satan if evil in this world would be lesser without Satan?” Within this context, if God had […]
By Bryan Auten A frequently asked and important question in the Christian Apologetics Alliance is about how aspiring apologists should spend their time and develop their skills. In a recent thread, CAA members addressed this issue. Tim McGrew summarizes the main points of the discussion, and they are presented here as an Apologetics Toolkit post. […]
By J. Brian Huffling I would venture that if you asked people what is meant by ‘faith,’ they would likely say “believing something in spite of the evidence or in the absence of evidence.” However, such has not historically been the view of faith. Faith has traditionally been understood as trusting a reliable source. For […]
By Ryan Leasure We’ve all felt it. The sense of guilt overwhelmed us. The pastor brings his sermon to a close, but before he concludes, he gives the congregation one final exhortation. Go tell others about Jesus. He says if Jesus was willing to lay down his life for you, the least you can do is […]
By Mikel Del Rosario Copied From Krishna? What would you say if someone told you the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ death and resurrection were copied from earlier pagan stories? Over 100 years ago, a guy named Kersey Graves talked about Jesus and Krishna. He said Jesus wasn’t unique among religious figures. Fans of his work were […]
By Steven Dunn The conception of the objective reality of elementary particles has not evaporated in the cloud of a new concept of reality, but in the transparent clarity of mathematics which no longer represents the behavior of particles, but our knowledge of this behavior. (W. Heisenberg, 1958) [1] In this post, I want to […]
Por Alvin Plantinga Discurso pronunciado por Alvin Plantinga en 2009 en la American Philosophical Association Central Division Conference. INTRODUCCIÓN “Ciencia y religión: donde el conflicto realmente se encuentra”. Ese es el título. Nuestra pregunta es la siguiente: ¿son la ciencia y la religión compatibles? Un proyecto útil sería tratar de hacer esta pregunta más precisa. […]