Is There Life Out There? (Interview with Jeff Zweerink)
Between novels, movies and television series, some of the most popular story lines involve extra-terrestrial beings living on exotic planets somewhere in the universe. The notion of alien life ...
Dan Brown’s Origin: No God Required?
By Timothy Fox
“Where do we come from?” and “Where are we going?” These are the two big questions Dan Brown explores in his latest novel, Origin (Doubleday, 2017). (Minor spoilers ahead.) This ...
What Christian Parents Should Learn from the Normalize Atheism Movement
By Natasha Crain
I recently encountered a movement underway on social media called “Normalize Atheism.” According to the website of the same name, the movement started a couple of years ...
Four Ways to Come Alongside Your Kids to Strengthen Their Faith
If you’re paying attention to what’s happening in America today, you’re probably aware of the challenges facing young Christians in their teens and twenties. It’s a simple fact: most young ...
What Christianity Teaches About Service
By Al Serrato
I attended an awards assembly recently with my teenage son. He had written an essay on the value of military service, so the speeches and theme this night had to do with the ...
How Can Apologists Best Use Twitter? 6 Ideas
When my father first released Evidence that Demands a Verdict in 1972 there was very little popular apologetics materials available, and so it was an instant success. But now with the ...
Are Young People Really Leaving Christianity?
Much has been written about both the Biblical illiteracy of teenage believers and the flight of young people from the Church. Many have observed this trend, and I too have witnessed it ...
8 Predictions about the Future of Sex, Gender, and Marriage in America
Recently I was reading sociologist Mark Regnerus’s insightful new book Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy. His premise is that the Pill and ubiquity of pornography have ...
Tornado Simulations, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and God’s Existence
By Luke Nix
Introduction
For nearly all my life, I've had a fascination with the physical sciences. Meteorology and astronomy were two of them that always caught and kept my attention as a ...
To COEXIST Is A Biblical Command
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 ...
Why Did God Write A Book?
By Evan Minton
Why did God write a book? By that, I mean why did God inspire authors to write documents which make up a compilation we call The Holy Bible? What were God's purposes in doing ...
Why Shouldn’t We Trust the Non-Canonical Gospel Attributed to John?
The Gospel of John is a reliable addition to the New Testament Canon, but this ancient document isn’t the only text attributed to this disciple of Jesus. Another slightly less ancient text ...
Is Faith Emotional or Logical?
By Luke Nix
So many people, both religious and non-religious, believe that faith is purely emotional, and in most contexts people imply the word "blind" before "faith". While few others believe ...
Why Did a “Good” God Create Hell?
By Al Serrato
Many people today accuse God of unfairness. Since God can foresee the future, they ask, why didn’t He simply never create all those he knows to be destined to spend eternity in ...
Responding To Free Will Critics
By Evan Minton
My article "5 Arguments For The Existence Of Free Will" became very popular. Tim Stratton liked it so much that he featured it as a guest post on his ...
What is the Most Powerful Evidence for the Christian Faith?
For the past three years I have been helping my father update his classic book Evidence that Demands a Verdict. There is no doubt that the evidence for Christianity has grown substantially since ...
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 ...
