How to Explain to Your Kids Why Some People Think Gorillas and Humans Are Equally Valuable
By Natasha Crain
By now, you’ve probably seen all the headlines and controversy surrounding the killing of Harambe the gorilla. In a nutshell, a 4-year-old boy somehow fell into a gorilla ...
Is Spiritual Truth a Matter of Opinion? An Open Letter to a Relativist
By Natasha Crain
I received the following blog comment this week, packed with statements that your kids are likely to hear (and possibly come to believe) about the nature of truth. I wanted to ...
TEN Problems with the Canaanite Objection
By Tim Stratton
“Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword” (Joshua 6:21).
Why would God ...
Are Humans Sophisticated Carbon-Based Machines?
By Chris Du-Pond
A paramount question that humans ought to consider is what philosophers have labeled the “mind-body problem.” The key point here is this: are humans made of one substance or ...
Robots & Rationality
By Tim Stratton
Determinists determined to defend determinism often counter the Freethinking Argument by proclaiming that computers seem to be rational and they do not possess libertarian free ...
The Wisdom Chronicle
The Wisdom Chronicle is designed to bring nuggets of wisdom from the dozens of books I read every year. I endeavor to share the best of what I have gleaned. The determination of relevance lies ...
The Constitution Is My Speech Permit
My former attorneys at the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) recently filed a lawsuit they never should have had to file. In the suit, they are representing a Christian student group at North ...
The Wisdom Chronicle
The Wisdom Chronicle is designed to bring nuggets of wisdom from the dozens of books I read every year. I endeavor to share the best of what I have gleaned. The determination of relevance lies ...
4 Pieces of Wisdom from a Street Level Apologist
By Billy Dyer
One reason I believe in Christianity is because it speaks of reality closer than any other worldview. This isn't the only or even the main reason, but it is one of the reasons. ...
What Exactly is a Biblical Miracle? 3 Key Things Your Kids Should Understand
By Natasha Crain
A few weeks ago in our family worship time, we were studying the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 (Matthew 14). After we finished the story, I asked what I thought was a pretty ...
The Wisdom Chronicle
The Wisdom Chronicle is designed to bring nuggets of wisdom from the dozens of books I read every year. I endeavor to share the best of what I have gleaned. The determination of relevance lies ...
Don’t Expect Your Kids to Care What the Bible Says Unless You’ve Given Them Reason to Believe It’s True
By Natasha Crain
A mom left a comment on one of my older posts the other day that said, “It sounds like you are teaching your kids to question the Bible. We should never teach our kids to ...
7 Questions from “Who is God”
By Brian Chilton
This past Sunday, the third episode of Morgan Freeman’s show The Story of God as aired on the National Geographic Channel. The third episode dealt with how God is understood to ...
The Law of Identity & the Human Soul
By Tim Stratton
Do humans survive the death of their bodies? As a pastor, I have officiated several funerals over the past few years and I have attended many recently. This topic is always sure ...
Why 99 out of 10 Millennials Leave The Church?
By Michael Sherrard
As the scintillating Richard G. Howe says, “three out of two people are bad at fractions.” Fewer, I imagine, are good at statistics. Statistics are useful and powerful in ...
4 Informal Logical Fallacies & Biblical Examples
By Billy Dyer
Is logic foreign to the New Testament? Is it a field of study we should reserve for the philosophers and let the theologians be by themselves? Of course not! Logic is logic and ...
The Wisdom Chronicle
The Wisdom Chronicle is designed to bring nuggets of wisdom from the dozens of books I read every year. I endeavor to share the best of what I have gleaned. The determination of relevance lies ...
Stuff Atheists Say: Believing in God Is Like Believing in Santa
By Timothy Fox
Welcome to the second installment in my series, Stuff Atheists Say! (Read part 1 here.) This series is dedicated to bad arguments and statements that some atheists (the internet ...
What Christian Parents Can Learn from Atheist Churches
By Natasha Crain
There’s a new church movement you may not have heard about, but it’s growing by leaps and bounds. It’s called the Sunday Assembly. It started less than two years ago in ...
Militant Atheist Lacks an Argument
By Steve Lee
Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University, penned an article with The New Yorker. It is provocatively titled “All Scientists Should Be ...
