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.
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 […]
The 5 Most Illogical People You Will Meet on the Internet
Atheism, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Alisa Childers It has happened to many of us. We post an encouraging Bible verse like Psalm 145:9 on Facebook: “The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.” By noon an atheist from somewhere in social media land has found the post and leaves a lovely comment: Really? Your god is good? […]
Are There Prophets In The Church Today?
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Jason Jimenez Turn on your T.V., and you are bound to come across a religious show with someone declaring they speak for God. Go to your local bookstore, and there I’m sure you will find several books written by people who say they have received divine revelations from God. Jump on YouTube, and you […]
Giving Atheists a Hand
Atheism, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Al Serrato My seventh-grade nephew needed some help the other night on social studies. He was working on the Paleolithic Age – the Old Stone Age – a time when man first started working with stone and bone tools. That got me thinking about the greatest “tool” of all – the human hand. It’s […]
Christians Must Care Less about Our Cultural Reputation
Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Natasha Crain Never have I written an article title that sounds less intuitive. Don’t we need to be concerned about our witness to the world? Isn’t that implied in the Great Commission? Shouldn’t people see us and want to follow Jesus because of our reputation? Stick with me here, because this requires some nuance and it’s really important. The […]
The Christian Celebrity And The Psychopath
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Bob Perry If you were looking for a completely trustworthy Christian apologist to follow, would you pick someone who had risen to the status of global celebrity because of his unparalleled ability to articulate the Gospel? Or would you gravitate toward someone who is a well-documented and self-confessed psychopath? The best choice is not […]
How Religion Is Being Twisted to Support Political Agendas—Interview with Dr Frank Turek
Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsJoshua Philipp of the Epoch Times recently interviewed me on how religion, particularly Christianity, is being twisted to support political agendas. Josh asks excellent questions in this wide-ranging interview that touches on abortion, transgenderism, same-sex marriage, the separation of church and state, legislating morality, socialism, LGBTQ goals and the equality act, Woke Christianity, the cancel […]
Resurrection Defense Series: Embarrassing Details
Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Brian Chilton We began an investigation into the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. When investigating any claim of history, whether recent or of antiquity, historians use historiographical tools to decipher the probability of the event in question. The criterion of embarrassment is one of the tools used by historians to determine […]
No God, No Justice
Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Karsten Friske The idea of protesting in an attempt to garner support to make a moral change is not new. With each movement, there exists a side that champions a series of issues and a counter-protest that opposes the change. In recent days, some have advocated for racial justice by marching to affirm the value […]
Does God Treat Women like Second-Class Citizens in the Old Testament?
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Ryan Leasure Perhaps the most scathing statement ever made about the God of the Old Testament came from the pen of Richard Dawkins. He famously snarled: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic […]
Wanda, Westview, and Free Will
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Timothy Fox A lot can be said about Marvel’s first Disney+ series, WandaVision (Spoilers ahead!), from its weird, off-putting sitcom beginning to the broader impact the series’ events will have on the MCU. But, being that we’re named FreeThinking Ministries, obviously, we have to talk about what WandaVision confirms to us about free will. This show isn’t the […]
The Evidential Value of 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 to the Case for the Resurrection
Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsA popular argument that is wielded by Christian apologists, at both the scholarly and popular level, is based on 1 Corinthians 15:3-8, taken by many contemporary scholars to represent an ancient creedal tradition that goes back to within only a couple of years of Jesus’ death. Indeed, Michael Licona states that “In nearly every historical […]