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.
What Would Barack Do?
Culture CrossExaminedOn June 28, 2006 Illinois Senator Barack Obama addressed the Call to Renewal’s “Building a Covenant for a New America” conference. Call to Renewal publishes Sojourners, a magazine of the Christian left that provides sustenance for those committed to the Social Gospel movement, which began in the late 19th century under Walter Rauschenbusch. Sojourners routinely […]
Life Begins at Conception
Culture CrossExaminedGeorge Weigel writing for NewsWeek points out what we’ve known as a scientific fact for decades: that human life begins at conception and any other suggested point for its beginning is arbitrary: http://www.newsweek.com/id/155564/output/print. This is not a matter of religious faith, but cold hard science. In my opinion, anyone running for President who thinks that […]
Atheist Diversionary Tactics
Culture CrossExaminedThe new atheists are a tumescent bunch, unquestionably articulate, yet consummately misguided. Their incendiary rhetoric can’t help but stir the emotions of the majority of America’s religious. Yet why do they ultimately choose to target Christianity above all other religious systems, when radical Islam presents the clear and present danger? They routinely build a straw […]
Jesus and the Case for War
CrossExamined(This is a column posted today on www.TownHall.com) I like to strike up conversations with people I meet while traveling. Last Tuesday, on the way back to San Francisco airport, I asked the driver where he was from. “Jordan,” he replied. In an effort to make a connection, I mentioned that I haven’t gotten to Jordan, […]
The Presidency is not an Entry-Level Position
Culture CrossExaminedIn my opinion, both presidential candidates have their problems. But one has more problems than the other. Here is a column I wrote for Townhall.com: The Presidency is not an Entry-Level Position.
Christian Apologetics: Dr. William Lane Craig Answers Your Questions
Theology and Christian ApologeticsAs CrossExamined.org conducts seminars and debates on college campuses, we owe much to Dr. William Lane Craig. Dr. Craig is one of Christianity’s best intellectual defenders. He is the author of several Christian apologetics books and scholarly articles, and has debated topics such as the existence of God, the problem of evil, the reliability of the Bible, […]
God is Not Dead Yet
2. Does God Exist?, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsThe following is from Christian Philosopher William Lane Craig’s recent article “God is not Dead Yet” in Christianity Today. I encourage you to read the entire article. I include this section on the moral argument because of our recent discussion here about how the existence of objective morality requires God– a claim that atheists have yet to refute. The moral argument. A […]
Evolution Cannot Explain Morality
2. Does God Exist?, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsSome atheists, such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, insist that morality is simply the product of evolution. Common moral sensibilities (Don’t murder, rape, steal, etc.) help ensure our evolutionary survival. There are number of problems with this view: Rape may enhance the survival of the species, but does that make rape good? Should we […]
If You’re Not a Hypocrite, Maybe Your Standards are too Low
Culture CrossExamined, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsBoth political parties have their problems, but I thought this was brilliant. http://www.townhall.com/funnies/cartoonist/MikeShelton/2007/09/1
Why You OUGHT to Judge
Culture CrossExamined, Theology and Christian ApologeticsThis column is a column I wrote for www.TownHall.com today. At least one lesbian is not happy with me for the case I made last week against same-sex marriage on our TV program. She wrote me this ALL CAPS e-mail with “VERY JUDGEMENTAL” in the subject line: ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME AND I AM A CHRISTIAN […]
Earliest Church Found
4. Is the NT True?The earliest church found to date has been found in Jordan. Click here.
Are Atheists really just as Moral as Christians?
1. Does Truth Exist?, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsAre Atheists really just as Moral as Christians? One of the complaints that I often hear is that “Atheists are just as moral as Christians are”. The response is usually made when I present the Moral Argument. Well I always try to clarify that I never said or meant that atheists ARE immoral, just that […]
Gay Animals: An Albatross of an Argument
Culture CrossExamined, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsIn a lame attempt to justify same-sex marriage, Google News linked to this story from an LA Times blog. According to the story, some female albatrosses may be coupling and caring for offspring together after the dead-beat daddy albatross has left. This animals-do-it argument is seriously put forth by homosexual activists. Yes, some animals engage […]
The Religion in Science
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsIf current Big Bang cosmology is correct (and the evidence is very good that it is) then the entire space-time universe exploded into being out of nothing (see previous posts God and the Astronomers and Who Made God? ). Therefore, the Cause of the universe would seem to have these attributes: · spaceless because it […]
Gay Marriage: Even Liberals Know It’s Bad
Culture CrossExamined, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsThis is my column that is running today at TownHall.com. I’ll post more on this later because 800 words is not enough to cover this very controversial topic. Why not legalize same-sex marriage? Who could it possibly hurt? Children and the rest of society. That’s the conclusion of David Blankenhorn, who is anything but an […]
The Altar of Freedom
CrossExaminedAs we remember those who have paid the ultimate price to defend our country, I think a letter from President Abraham Lincoln will help us feel the impact of what Memorial Day really means to those who have lost loved ones. On November 21, 1864, President Lincoln wrote these words to Mrs. Lydia Bixby of […]
Why Does the State Endorse Marriage?
Culture CrossExamined, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsFollowing the California Supreme Court decision last week, I posed four questions about Same-Sex Marriage that have generated quite a lot of discussion. It seems many people are operating on emotion rather than reason on this issue. Most of us know and like homosexuals, and that can cloud our reasoning. One of the cloudy areas is the […]
Four Questions about Same-Sex Marriage
Culture CrossExamined, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsNow that the California Supreme Court has usurped the will of the people by striking down their democratically-decided law, there is sure to be a debate over the next few months about the merits of Same-Sex Marriage. The issue may even make it to the ballot box in November in the form of a California Constitutional […]
CIA: Your Chance to Make an Impact with Christian Apologetics
1. Does Truth Exist?, 2. Does God Exist?, 3. Are Miracles Possible?, 4. Is the NT True?, College Events, Theology and Christian ApologeticsIf you have some expertise in the area of Christian Apologetics, we are looking for instructors to help us take I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist to students and churches around the country. Greg Koukl and Brett Kunkle of Stand to Reason, and Jason Reed of Southern Evangelical Seminary will join me, Frank […]
Atheists: What kind of God would you accept?
2. Does God Exist?Recently I posed a question to our fellow truth seekers who are atheists, and we had a great response and good dialog. It let us understand a lot of the feelings and reasons for either accepting or not accepting the God of the Christians if He was real. So here’s another question in the same […]
Suffering and Evil: Can God do anything?
1. Does Truth Exist?, 2. Does God Exist?, 3. Are Miracles Possible?, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsCan God do Anything? Can he create a stone so big that he cannot move it? Part 1 In a response to one of our readers, I said that God cannot do anything. The reader responded? “Then what about Miracles.” In another post an atheist reader said: “… God can suspend the law of gravity. […]