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.
The Wisdom Chronicle
Wisdom ChronicleThe 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 with you. Blessings, J. Whiddon CONSISTENCY “A resident in a seaside hotel breakfast room called over the head waiter one morning […]
4 Pieces of Wisdom from a Street Level Apologist
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy 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. Even if Christianity is not true (I do not doubt Christianity) I am convinced that atheism is wholly false. That […]
What Exactly is a Biblical Miracle? 3 Key Things Your Kids Should Understand
3. Are Miracles Possible?, Apologetics for ParentsBy 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 straightforward question: “So, how did Jesus feed 5,000 people with just a few loaves of bread and a couple […]
The Wisdom Chronicle
Wisdom ChronicleThe 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 with you. Blessings, J. Whiddon 951. POTENTIAL Out in West Texas there is an old place called the Yates Pool. During […]
Don’t Expect Your Kids to Care What the Bible Says Unless You’ve Given Them Reason to Believe It’s True
Apologetics for Parents, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy 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 question the Bible!” To that I say…Of course we should. Let’s not get confused, however, by what […]
7 Questions from “Who is God”
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy 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 be in various cultures and religions. Again, I am profoundly surprised at how well this show has been made. The show has not […]
The Law of Identity & the Human Soul
CrossExaminedBy 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 to come up while talking to the surviving relatives. Questions such as these are regularly asked: Will we see our loved one again? […]
Why 99 out of 10 Millennials Leave The Church?
Apologetics for Parents, Culture CrossExaminedBy 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 telling a story but are often misleading. In fact, statistics can be used to tell any story you want depending on how the […]
4 Informal Logical Fallacies & Biblical Examples
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy 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 works in every field of reality. If God is the God of Truth, then we should expect to see […]
The Wisdom Chronicle
Wisdom ChronicleThe 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 with you. Blessings, J. Whiddon CHRISTIAN REASON “The God of the Bible requires teachers who diligently study His Word and […]
Stuff Atheists Say: Believing in God Is Like Believing in Santa
AtheismBy 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 troll type) make to derail a conversation and avoid having to put forth any arguments or evidence of their own. My intention is not to smear every nonbeliever as […]
What Christian Parents Can Learn from Atheist Churches
Apologetics for Parents, AtheismBy 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 England and now has more than 60 congregations around the world. Twenty-five more congregations are expected to launch by early 2015. […]
Militant Atheist Lacks an Argument
Atheism, Philosophy of ScienceBy 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 Militant Atheists.” Not just an atheist, but a militant atheist. Krauss, has risen in fame in the past few years, penning such books at The Physics of Star Trek […]
Evolution and the “Convictions of a Monkey’s Mind”
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Tim Stratton In my last article, I made the case that evolution cannot account for human rationality unless it could explain genuine free will. In the Freethinking Argument Against Naturalism, I argued that free will cannot be explained if naturalism is true. It follows that naturalistic evolution cannot account for the ability humans possess to rationally affirm knowledge […]
Six Reasons North Carolina Got It Right
Culture CrossExamined, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsLies are born the moment someone thinks the truth is dangerous. Apparently, a good number of business and sports executives think the truth about North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” (HB2) is dangerous, that’s why they are lying about it. Well, perhaps I should be a bit more charitable: some may not be overtly lying about it, […]
Can Evolution Account for Rationality?
CrossExaminedBy Tim Stratton The topic of my master’s thesis while at Biola University focused on what it means to genuinely be a “freethinker.” This argument — called the Freethinking Argument Against Naturalism — deductively proves that not only does libertarian free will exist, but so does the human soul. If the human soul exists, then the worldview of […]
Heaven and Hell: How to Explain God’s Love AND Justice to Kids
Apologetics for ParentsBy Natasha Crain Lately, my two daughters (ages 6 and 4) have been arguing incessantly every morning. It’s the first thing I hear every day, echoing from down the hall: “Stop staring at me!” “Then leave my room!” “You’re so mean!” “No, you’re the meanest in the world!” The other morning, my older daughter ran into […]
A Case for the Empty Tomb (Part 3-The Biblical and Theological Arguments)
CrossExaminedBy Brian Chilton For the previous couple of weeks, we have looked into the veritability of the empty tomb hypothesis; that is, that the tomb of Jesus was literally found empty on the first Easter Sunday morning. We have already confirmed historically that the tomb was found empty due to the burial practices of the first-century […]
The Wisdom Chronicle
Wisdom ChronicleThe 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 with you. Blessings, J. Whiddon FREEDOM “Freedom was traditionally understood as the power to do what one ought to do. According […]
Wisdom in Evangelism
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Ryan Pauly I recently had the opportunity to attend the AMP Conference here in Southern California hosted by Reasons to Believe. It was a wonderful weekend with presentations from Jeff Vines, Sarah Sumner, Sean McDowell, J. Warner Wallace, Fazale Rana, Hugh Ross, Mary Jo Sharp, Abdu Murray, John Njoroge, and Mark Mittelberg. Each of the speakers […]
The Apologist’s Secret Weapon
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Michael Sherrard It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. —SAINT AUGUSTINE The Limits of Our Knowledge You don’t know everything. Nobody knows everything. Not even your condescending, skeptical coworker or classmate who has made you feel intellectually inferior for believing in God. So fear not. A […]