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.
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 […]
If Kids Don’t Understand Why Miracles Don’t Discredit the Bible, Their Faith Will Be Easily Crushed
3. Are Miracles Possible?, Apologetics for Parents, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Natasha Crain “The light of common sense, thrown on the stories of making snakes out of rods, of the Red Sea dividing itself, of Christ’s making wine from water, curing blind men by rubbing spit in their eyes, walking on water, the story of the flood, God’s making the world in six days, of making […]
Apologetics is Not For The Heart
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Richard Eng Growing up, my Dad taught me apologetics. He was really excited about it, and good at it too. As someone who studied under Norman Geisler at Southern Evangelical Seminary, my Dad got some of the best training out there. As a result, He taught me a lot of what I now know. I found myself […]
Redeeming the Kavanaugh Debacle
Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsBy Michael Sherrard People are hurting. People are angry. And truth be told, fear is the likely emotion consuming many right now– fear of losing position and power, fear of retaliation, fear of exploitation. Some fears are appropriate and some fears misplaced, but all fears can become something dangerous if left alone. Christians, now, is the […]
How the Most Important Attribute of God Relates to Christian Apologetics
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy J. Brian Huffling Many issues that surround Christian apologetics are philosophical in nature. Thus, if we are going to be good apologists we need to be good philosophers. Evangelical apologists and philosophers typically follow the analytic tradition in philosophy, which seeks to answer individual questions or problems, but it lacks a systematic approach to […]
Does The Bible Promote Slavery?
Atheism, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Ryan Leasure “Consult the Bible, and you will discover that the creator of the universe clearly expects us to keep slaves.” 1 This provocative statement by atheist Sam Harris is meant to cast shade on the God of the Bible. After all, if civilized humanity overwhelmingly condemns slavery, why should we worship a God who thinks it’s […]
Book Review: The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ
4. Is the NT True?, Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Luke Nix Introduction In my late teens and early 20s, I was wrestling with many questions about what I believed. I had several challenges to my Christian faith that ranged from the philosophical to the scientific to the historical. One of the challenges that would not go away, due to some college professors and […]
Do We Have Reasons to Believe in God’s Existence?
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Brian Chilton Recently, news agencies filled the airwaves and the internet with the news of Stephen Hawking’s last book to be published and released posthumously. The book released on October 16, 2018, is entitled Brief Answers to the Big Questions. Hawking argues through a series of essays why he didn’t think that God existed, did not […]
Answering Two Common Objections To The Author Of Life Argument
Atheism, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Evan Minton When atheists accuse God of being immoral, they usually point to nasty Old Testament accounts like the conquest of Canaan, God sicking two female bears on a group of youths for harassing Elisha, or destroying humanity in a massive flood (Genesis 6-9). In addition to various other considerations regarding these specific incidences, one factor I […]
10 Signs the Christian Authors You’re Following are (Subtly) Teaching Unbiblical Ideas
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Natasha Crain My friend, Alisa Childers, recently wrote a review of the bestselling book, Girl, Wash Your Face, by Rachel Hollis. It started a firestorm of online discussion about what makes someone a “Christian” author, what responsibility a self-identified Christian author has in promoting ideas consistent with biblical faith, and what harm there can be for Christians reading […]
“Don’t Mix Politics & Religion!”
Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Tim Stratton Complaint: Dear Tim, I love you man, but I don’t want my politics and my religion mixed. I look up to you for religious context and commentary because you are an expert in the field. Not politics. That’s just your opinions, and I can get that from every Tom, Dick, and Harry… […]
How To Be Civil With A Political Party That “Wants To Destroy You”
Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsBy Michael Sherrard Hillary Clinton has thrown more fuel on an already raging fire. In a recent interview, she stated very plainly that until the left has power again, they cannot be civil. If not for the fact that this advice will be followed by many to extreme ends, I’d just laugh at the extreme […]
Did the Apostles Really Die as Martyrs?
4. Is the NT True?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Mikel Del Rosario Evidence That Demands a Verdict Growing up, I had a lot of questions about the faith. So I went looking for answers. One of the first apologetics books I discovered on my dad’s shelf was Josh McDowell’s classic work, Evidence that Demands a Verdict. My dad even arranged for me to meet […]
Where the Evidence Led Me
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Terrell Clemmons A Review of Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, by Matti Leisola & Jonathan As a student beginning his scientific studies in 1966, Finnish biochemist Matti Leisola used to laugh at Christians who “placed God in the gaps of scientific knowledge,” as the criticism often went. As he saw it, those people […]