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When Apologetics Feels Like Math
Today’s post is by Sarah Abbey. You can read more of her work at her blog, A Penny of A Thought. You know that experience where there’s something you should do but you absolutely hate doing it? That’s...
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Five Books for Skeptics and Seekers
Do you ever feel like you have to have all the answers for your skeptical friends? Here’s the problem: it is way, way easier to ask a hard question than to give a good answer. In the space of five...
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Rick Warren: A Measuring Stick?
This past weekend the world learned sad and sobering news: Rick Warren’s youngest son, Matthew, committed suicide at the age of 27. In a letter to the staff of Saddleback Church, Rev. Warren wrote: You...
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Evangelism Is A Conversation
As a Christian, I have been the recipient of some really bad attempts at evangelism. One of the most puzzling was a fairly long airplane ride. I don’t recall talking to the person next to me at all –...
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Do You Love Your Skeptical Neighbors?
Do you love your skeptical neighbors? Its a question I don’t hear very often, but one that Christians need to regularly ask one another. According to some studies, up to 20% of Americans are not...
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How Can I Be Prepared To Defend My Faith?
Do you ever feel overwhelmed about defending the truth of Christianity? It seems like there’s a lot of information to remember! Philosophy is complicated. Sometimes apologetics feels like math (with...
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The Jabberwocky Response
Have you ever heard of experiential learning? From ropes courses to trust falls, or hearing a ‘what is the meaning of life?’ talk while standing in a cemetery, the point of experiential learning...
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Five Challenges For Your Secular Friends
Do you feel like you’re always on the defensive about Christianity? There’s the Crusades, Westboro is probably inappropriately protesting something, and a prominent Christian leader has likely said...
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The Christian Apologetics Alliance
Do you ever have a tough question about Christianity? When you do, is it hard to find someone who has a good answer? As a thinking person, do you sometimes feel intellectually lonely at church? Do you...
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Start with Your Friend
Have you been studying apologetics for a while? Perhaps you’ve read Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig, watched some lectures by Ravi Zacharias, and dug into a few books by C.S. Lewis. Armed with...
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Two Common Evangelism Mistakes
Big Mistakes by Nick Allen Don’t you sometimes wish that life came with a giant eraser that you could use to get rid of really big mistakes? This would be nice even when you order dessert and then...
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Three (More) Common Evangelism Mistakes
Big Mistakes by Nick Allen In my last post, Two Common Evangelism Mistakes, I talked about two ways Christians often get evangelism wrong. You can… Present the wrong message. Live like you don’t...
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The Context of Apologetics
Context matters. For instance, if you’re lying in a dark place and a strong man flashes a knife above your chest before plunging it down into your body, it makes a difference whether you are in a...
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The Making of a Leader by Robert Clinton – A Book Review
This is a book about spiritual dynamics. Effective spiritual ministry flows out of being, and God is concerned with our being. He is forming it. The patterns and processes He uses to shape us are...
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Nine Books For A New Apologist
One of my favorite experiences with Reasons for God is hearing from readers. Recently a new contact, Tony, asked this: Really enjoy your writings and the new site. I’m a fairly new believer (3 years)...
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A Tribal Identity?
From the start of humanity, we have found ways to separate ourselves from God and one another. From Adam and Eve rejecting God, to Cain murdering his brother Abel, we have had a rocky start to sticking...
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The Power of A Life
What is the power of your life? How far does your influence go? As it turns out, the impact of our lives is far more than you might imagine. Give yourself a baseline: take the next five seconds and...
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Christmas and the Birth of Hope
In the midst of the cheerful season of Christmas, The New York Times recently surprised again, this time with some powerfully nihilistic writing. The article, by Roy Scranton, is gloomily titled,...
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The Challenge of Revelation
As an apologist and a philosopher, my default approach to the complexity of religious (and a-religious) ideas is to listen, to think, to reason, and then, as best I can, to draw logical conclusions....
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All for Jesus
There’s a very simple message at the heart of the Christian message: by faith in Christ, be transformed by the love of God into a new creation. Then, by the renewing love of the Holy Spirit, we love...
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