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.
Were Jesus’ Temptations Real If He Couldn’t Sin?
Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Ryan Leasure Historic Christianity affirms that Jesus Christ, though fully human, is also fully divine. He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end (Rev. 22:13) — the eternal creator of all things (Jn. 1:3). The Nicene Creed (AD 325) declares of Jesus that he is: God from God, Light from Light, true God from […]
Is Apologetics A Discipline? A Conversation with Robert Bowman
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy J. Brian Huffling A few months ago I wrote a post titled “Why Christian Apologetics Is Not A Discipline.” Dr. Robert Bowman has graciously responded with a blog post titled “Is Apologetics a Discipline?” I appreciate Bowman’s article as it highlights the importance and nature of apologetics. I have been a fan of his for well over decade since […]
The Top Ten Ways to Advance the Gospel at Holiday Dinners
Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsDreading those awkward family dinners this Christmas season? Unsure about how to tactfully bring up the real reason for Christmas? Here are the Top Ten ways to advance the Gospel at Holiday Dinners: Pray: Start praying now for opportunities and for hearts to be open. Then volunteer to pray before the meal (No one will […]
60 Christmas Gift Ideas for Christian Kids and Adults
Apologetics for Parents, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Natasha Crain I’ve recently had a lot of people asking for recommendations for Christmas gift ideas, for both kids and adults, so I’ve put together this detailed list of my top picks! They are almost all books, but there are a few other ideas as well. Gift ideas for kids come first (mostly for the […]
J. Warner Wallace: Different Answers to The Question “Why Are You a Christian?”
Atheism, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Wintery Knight I sometimes think about the horrible experiences I had encountering “normal” Christians in American churches after having become a Christian on my own through reading the New Testament, reading apologetics, and watching William Lane Craig debates. I heard a lot of different reasons to be a Christian from the church Christians, and […]
My Conversation About Morality with an Atheist Millennial Man
Atheism, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Wintery Knight I spent some time talking to an atheist millennial recently. He considers himself a moral person, and he is very helpful to others. I asked him to define morality, and he said that morality was feeling good, and helping other people to feel good. I was trying to think of a way […]
Apologetics for Children
Apologetics for Parents, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Mikel Del Rosario How can we help our children understand evidence for the Christian faith? When people ask me about apologetics for children, I think back to the time when my son was in kindergarten. A classmate would tease him at school by sarcastically asking, “Why do you still believe in the God thing?” […]
Whirled Views
Atheism, Philosophy of Science, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Terrell Clemmons A Framework for Mapping Reality & Engaging Ideological Confusion. “Science is more than a body of knowledge. It’s a way of thinking,” said Carl Sagan in the last interview he gave before his death in 1996 at age 62. Sagan and Charlie Rose were discussing Sagan’s last book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a […]
Is Genesis History?
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Luke Nix Introduction A couple of years ago the documentary “Is Genesis History?” was released. This documentary aims to defend the truth of the Christian worldview by defending the historicity of the early chapters of the Bible from a scientific perspective. The documentary attempts to accomplish this by demonstrating evidence in support of intelligent […]
The Christian’s Response to Cultural Change
Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy V. T. Clark Daniel was a young man when his world changed. The world Daniel knew and grew up in changed to a world contrary to his culture and his faith. Christians today find themselves not immune to the shifting cultural changes of society. With this brings personal and communal challenges of what is […]
Do You Know What’s True And Can You Handle It?
1. Does Truth Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Alex McElroy IS IT TRUE, O Christ in Heaven, That the highest suffer most? That the strongest wander furthest, And more helplessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature Is capacity for pain? And the anguish of the singer Makes the sweetness of the strain? Is it true, O Christ in Heaven, […]
Reading The Bible Among Other Things
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Evan Minton So you’ve just gone to the bookstore and got a stack of books you really want to dive into. However, you are also a dedicated Christian who wants to nourish yourself on God’s holy, inspired, inerrant word. But, there are only so many hours in the day and the free time you do […]
Should You Force Your Kids To Go To Church?
Apologetics for Parents, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Natasha Crain A reader of this blog posed this question on the Facebook page because her boys –ages 10, 12 and 15– are uninterested in church. It’s a very important question that I wanted to address with this post. At the risk of trivializing the question itself, I’m going to offer a brief rationale for my […]
Book Review: Scientism and Secularism by J. P. Moreland
Philosophy of Science, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Timothy Fox (Orthodox Fox) J. P. Moreland is one of the most prominent Christian thinkers of our time, and I’ve been greatly impacted by his works, such as Love Your God With All Your Mind and Kingdom Triangle. In his latest popular-level work, Scientism and Secularism (Crossway, 2018), Moreland addresses one of the most dangerous ideologies facing our culture and […]
An Insight Into Why Young Adults Are Leaving Christianity
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Michael C. Sherrard Sociologists, apologists, and the media have well articulated the abandoning of religion by many young adults. The church is aware of the attack on the faith of teenagers. It is becoming old news. We have become saturated with the statistics. We know the problem; it is time for a solution. The […]
33 Reasons Why We Need Apologetics
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Jeremy Linn I’ve written a bunch about what Apologetics is – a rational defense of the Christian faith – and what it all involves. But the “What” of Apologetics doesn’t matter if there are no reasons why we should use Apologetics or even have it on our minds. To show its importance on our […]
Secular Leftists Demand Christian Student Senator Resign For Disagreeing With Them
Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Wintery Knight I had to blog about this story about a tough girl at UC Berkeley who is taking a lot of heat for her Christian beliefs. It would have been easier for her to keep them private. But they forced her to vote, and she had to respect her conscience. Campus Reform posted an article […]
Thriving in Your Career as an Ambassador of Jesus
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Mikel Del Rosario Faith in the Spotlight Can you thrive in your career while staying true to your beliefs? As Christians, we are vocational ambassadors representing Jesus in all that we do. But can you really thrive in your career while staying true to your Christian beliefs? In this episode of the Table Podcast, […]
The Darwin Tales
2. Does God Exist?, Philosophy of Science, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Terrell Clemmons It’s Time to Remit Darwinian Storytelling to the Annals of History. Stephen Meyer was a young geophysicist working in the oil industry in Dallas, Texas, in 1985 when he saw that an interesting science conference was coming to town and he decided to drop in. During a panel discussion on the origin of […]
The BGV Theorem: An Unexpected Asset for Christian Theism
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Brian Chilton Turn on the Discovery Channel or the Science Channel, and you may find interesting theories pertaining to how the universe came to be. Some propose that an eternal multiverse gave rise to our modern universe. Others will hold that eternal wiggling dimensions or planes collide to form universes. In 2003, three theoretical […]
If God Created The Universe, Who Created God?
2. Does God Exist?, Atheism, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Evan Minton This is a question that many, many atheists have asked Christians whenever Christians try to argue for God as Creator and Designer of the universe (by using, for example, The Kalam Cosmological Argument, or The Fine Tuning Argument). Once the argument for creation is over, the atheist will retort “Oh yeah? Well, if God made […]