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.
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 […]
How to Get Your Kids to Ask More Questions About Their Faith
Apologetics for Parents, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Natasha Crain The most popular post on my blog is one I wrote last year called, The Number One Sign Your Kids are Just Borrowing Your Faith (and Not Developing Their Own). That post has been read by more than 80,000 people and shared almost 14,000 times. Clearly it resonated deeply with people. So what […]
Is the Cross Cosmic Child Abuse?
4. Is the NT True?, Jesus ChristBy Tim Stratton Nothing is more exciting than examining the historical evidence of the resurrection of Jesus. Most people are shocked to realize that by employing the historical method, one can conclude that Jesus not only died on a Roman cross but was raised from the dead as well. This is compelling evidence not only that God exists, […]
A Case for the Empty Tomb (Part 2: Historical Evidence)
CrossExaminedBy Brian Chilton The previous section examined the arguments posed against the empty tomb hypothesis. The blog demonstrated in the first article that the arguments against the empty tomb hypothesis fail greatly. This article will provide a historical argument for the empty tomb hypothesis. If the Gospels are correct in that the tomb was truly […]
How The Church’s Anti-Intellectualism Will Be Her Jailor
Culture CrossExamined, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Michael Sherrard Religious freedom is on the decline. There is no doubt about this. Social sexual issues will slam the prison’s door on religious freedom. And the lack of desire for wisdom and knowledge within the church is the jailor. Solomon pleaded with his son to not scorn wisdom. Wisdom ought to be sought, […]
4 Quotes on Natural Selection by Naturalists that Support Theism
CrossExaminedBy Billy Dyer Familiar claims to the contrary notwithstanding, Darwin didn’t manage to get mental causes out of his account of how evolution works. He just hid them in the unexamined analogy between selection by breeding and natural selection…we can claim something Darwinists cannot. There is no ghost in our machine; neither God, nor Mother […]
A Case for the Empty Tomb (Part 1: Arguments Against the Empty Tomb)
CrossExaminedBy Brian Chilton Surprising as it may seem, several aspects of the life, death, and apparent resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth are agreed upon by the majority of New Testament scholars, both evangelical and secular alike. In his book The Historical Jesus, Gary Habermas provides twelve minimal facts about Jesus that nearly all scholars agree, […]
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 EVOLUTION IN SCHOOLS “This is the State of California’s guidelines for teaching evolution in the […]
What Are Some Of The Problems With “Philosophy-Free” Theology?
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Jonathan Thompson “I only need the Bible, not man’s philosophy!”, “We don’t need to use philosophy since we have the Holy Spirit!”, “My beliefs are exegetically driven, yours are philosophical!” Many statements like the ones just mentioned sound reverential and benign to the religious ear, but these statements need to be refined. Often when […]
Book Review: Answering Jihad by Nabeel Qureshi
IslamBy Timothy Fox “There is a better way forward, a way that upholds both truth and compassion.” Compassion is probably the last word you would expect to find in a book about jihad. But that’s exactly what Nabeel Qureshi desires for us to show Muslims in Answering Jihad. In this book, he does just what the title states: […]
Do Your Kids Know Why They Need God?
2. Does God Exist?, Apologetics for ParentsBy Natasha Crain A few months ago, my 6-year-old daughter asked a question that has had me thinking ever since: Mommy, why does God matter so much? It was the most fundamental of questions, really. Yet I was embarrassingly uncertain of how to answer it in a way that meaningfully encapsulates the full answer for […]