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Useful Thoughts from Other Sources

Included in this section are great articles from leading Christian thinkers. Also included are several creeds. Stand to Reason trains Christians to think clearly about the faith and make a credible defense. We encourage you to read these articles and use the material in your conversations about the critical issues of life.

Title	Author
Active and Passive Euthanasia	Dr. J.P. Moreland
The Athanasian Creed	Church Fathers
Reflections on the "Good Life."	J. P. Moreland
Great Articles by Francis J. Beckwith	Francis J. Beckwith
Don't Judge a Banned Book by Its Coverage	Francis J. Beckwith
The Student Ministry Philosophy of Parkhills Baptist Church
The Myth of Prochoice Neutrality 25 Years After Roe v. Wade	Francis J. Beckwith
The Nicene Creed	Church Fathers
Life and Abortion: A Pro-Life Defense in Dialogue Form	John G. Crandall
Potential Personhood	J. P. Moreland
Cloning Addendum; A Statement on the Cloning Report Issued by the President's Council on Bioethics. July 15, 2002	Robert P. George (joined by Alfonso Gomez-Lobo)
Truth, Contemporary Philosophy, and the Postmodern Turn	J. P. Moreland

All Quick Thoughts

• A Fundamentalist Nation?
• Abortion and Homicide
• Abortion for Rape Victims?
• Abortion: One Key Issue
• Abortions and Holocaust  
• The Ambassador & the Waitress
• Anthropology vs. Morality
• Anti-intellectual Churches
• Are Jews Christ-Killers?
• "Basically Good"
• "The Bible Was Only Written by Men"
• Biblical Prayer
• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
• Building a Virtuous Country
• Bumper Sticker Slogans
• But Jesus Would Forgive
• By Their Words You Shall Know Them
• Can God Make a Rock So Big He Can't Lift It?
• Chalk One Up for God
• Christian "Faith" vs. Knowledge
• Church and Politics: A Deafening Silence
• Climate Control
• Cloning Is Cloning
• Creating a Potential Life?
• Cross-examining the Attorney
• Curing the Intellectual Assent Problem
• Devotion Rather than Devotions
• Do Christians Have a Bias?
• Do You Take the Bible Seriously?
• Does It Matter if We Evolved?
• Double Standard on the Problem of Evil
• Ethnic Cleansing in the Womb
• Ever Hear of the Ten Commandments?
• Flawed Perfection
• "Forced" to Be Parents?
• "Forcing" One's Views
• Freedom and Rationality
• God in Man's Image
• Good Earthquakes
• Hate Crimes Are not about Hate
• Holland: Euthanasia's slippery slope
• I'm an Ancient Christian
• I'm Just a Little Sinner
• Indiscriminate Tolerance
• Insulin or Ice Cream?
• Integrating Science and Theology
• Is Abortion a Holocaust?
• Is Atheism a Crutch?
• Is Religion Good?
• Jesus Causes Sparks to Fly
• Kids: Have an Abortion, Not a Smoke
• K-W-C
• Legislating Morality
• "Life a Beautiful Choice? It's Not So Beautiful for an Unwanted Child."
• Life as We Know It
• Life Chains
• A "Living Oath"?
• Love Needs an Education
• Modified Pro-Choice
• Morality from Nature?
• The Most Important Thing
• No Homemade God
• No Tolerance in Relativism
• Not Quick on Your Feet
• "Oh, You Believe in Absolutes? What are They?"
• Pearls before Swine
• Pleasure as Ethics
• Practicing Prophecy
• Proving Math?
• Psychological Confidence vs. Convictions
• Putting Them Out of Their Misery?
• Relativism and the Problem of Evil
• Relativists: Caught Coming and Going
• Relativists' Inconsistency
• Respecting the Revelation
• Rubber Crutches
• The "Seamless Garment" Unravels
• "Sibling Rivalry"
• Sowing and Reaping
• Sowing the Seed Recklessly
• A Stone in His Shoe
• Tactics and Common Ground
• The Soul Hole
• The Unevangelized Heathen
• Theistic Evolution: Designed by Chance?
• To Err is Human
• Tolerance, or Lack of Courage?
• Tolerance Requires Judgment
• Toward More Subversive Questioning
• Treating Equals Equally
• Trotting Out the Toddler
• The Truth Changes Everything
• Turning the Tables
• Two Wrongs, Two Rights
• Unbelievable Unbelief
• "Unnatural" Adoption
• We Were Here First?
• Were You Ever an Unborn Child?
• What Was the Faith of Our Founding Fathers?
• What Your Vote Says about You
• When Prayer Doesn't Come Easily
• When to Hold and When to Fold
• When Tolerance Is Intolerant
• When You Feel Good Enough
• "Who Are You to Say?"
• Why Did God Allow Evil?
• Would Hitler and Mother Teresa Suffer the Same Fate if They Weren't Christians?
• You are What You Eat?