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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Mar 4, 2020 5:47 PM
When we remove the key component of sexual complementarity from the definition of marriage, none of the other aspects of marriage logically hold.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Mar 21, 2020 12:38 AM
The Greeks’ view of the nature of the universe held them back from scientific discovery, but Kepler’s Christian view drove him on towards science.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 7, 2020 2:21 AM
What have we lost, both as individuals and as a culture, without the presence of death?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 7, 2020 3:20 AM
Both atheists and theists care about right and wrong, love and compassion. Are we merely being fooled by survival instincts, or are we apprehending objective reality?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 9, 2020 2:03 AM
Thomas Nagel says materialism fails to explain the world we actually find ourselves in, and to atheists, this is heretical.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Apr 9, 2020 10:26 PM
Jonathan discusses the difference between subjective and objective truth using two helpful analogies.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 24, 2020 4:24 AM
Tim gives a helpful analogy for biblical faith.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jun 24, 2020 7:28 AM
Jon tells the story of how he came to realize atheism can’t explain reality but Christianity can.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jun 25, 2020 2:26 AM
Since we all—Christian or non-Christian—have to explain the existence of evil, the real issue here is figuring out who has the best answer.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jun 25, 2020 5:31 PM
Jonathan Noyes answers the question “What is truth?”
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jul 1, 2020 9:08 PM
Moral dilemmas based on circumstances always demonstrate objectivism, not subjectivism.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Aug 18, 2020 12:39 AM
Reasonable Faith has a new video answering the question “How do we explain the astonishing applicability of math to the physical world?”
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Aug 21, 2020 1:16 PM
Jon explains what happens when moral relativism is followed to its logical conclusion.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 6, 2020 7:15 PM
Skeptics and atheists find the problem of evil so repugnant and our solutions so hollow because they refuse to accept a fundamental reality that every Christian believes. Alan explains what that...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Feb 15, 2021 11:48 PM
Some argue the universe has always existed, but an eternal universe would mean there’s an actually infinite number of past events, and such a thing is impossible. Here’s why.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 22, 2021 5:34 AM
If someone asked you how you know Christianity is true, how would you answer them? In this episode, Alan offers his response to that question by appealing to some powerful truths that people live by.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 23, 2021 9:48 PM
The fulfillment of human longings (eternal love, triumph over evil, life out of death) that we find in beautiful stories can be found in reality.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 20, 2021 5:47 PM
You've heard of the Big Bang, but are you aware of the other two big bangs, each of which represents the beginning of a fundamentally new thing that didn't exist before? Alan explains what they are...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Aug 12, 2021 9:24 PM
We all want to be “tolerant” people. We want to be kind and respectful of others, even when we disagree. The problem is, this isn’t what tolerance means anymore.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Aug 12, 2021 11:43 PM
When we’re afraid discussions about truth will get us labeled intolerant, that fear stifles critical thought and hampers productive discussions about religion, values, ethics, morals, and...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 9, 2021 10:35 PM
Alan takes notice of a cultural trend to reject teleological language when describing human anatomy and shows how this explains modern thinking on sex and sexuality.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Feb 22, 2022 11:15 PM
Those who recognize, through their experience of the world, that justice is objectively real and not merely a matter of preference should ask themselves, what must be true for ultimate justice...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Mar 10, 2022 4:17 AM
Jon Noyes considers three realities concerning the soul, guilt, and human value and discusses why only Christianity provides a reasonable explanation.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan offers a simple question that neutralizes the claim that the problem of evil is evidence against God’s existence.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that faith is gullibility or believing things in the absence of evidence.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Alan’s monthly letter from July 2012 I had just given a talk at his church when Charlie asked for help.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
The purpose of this post is merely to provide clarity rather than to argue for the theist position (see all of STR for those arguments).
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
I wrote not long ago about how a change in values in 18th-century Britain (as a result of a million people coming to Christ) affected their economy.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
The values of Christianity brought a vast number of people out of material poverty as a happy byproduct of their souls being brought of spiritual poverty.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Research has shown there are at least four ways fathers make unique contributions to the lives of their children.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
William Lane Craig’s organization, Reasonable Faith, created a simple, visually interesting, brief video explaining the basics of the kalam cosmological argument.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
James Sire describes naturalists as monistic materialists who deny the existence of immaterial entities and their ability to act in this world.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Does the traditional marriage definition of “one man, one woman” take away some people’s rights?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
To believe in miracles, we have to believe an immaterial God can move things in the world. Is that unreasonable?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Some atheists say that if God exists, He should show Himself to everyone so they can believe in Him and not go to Hell. Should a good God do this?
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Web Content Article · By guest author On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
By Steve Wagner To Respond, Distinguish Two Types of Objectivity
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
As I listen to many of the subjects in debate today in our culture—the dialog between secularists and Christians—there’s a fundamental difference in perspectives that I think we need to be aware of...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
This question is asked regarding the Employment Non-Discrimination Act moving through the Senate.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
William Lane Craig explains why the timeless cause of the universe must be personal, not impersonal.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
The testimony Ryan Anderson (co-author of What Is Marriage) gave to the Indiana House Judiciary Committee earlier this week is a succinct defense of man/woman marriage. Take ten minutes to watch.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
No amount of reasoned arguments can trump a suspicion of bad motives once it’s firmly implanted, and unfortunately, people are currently assuming the worst of religious conservatives.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Philosopher Alvin Plantinga made a few quotable points about atheism in an interview posted by the New York Times on Sunday.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
It’s not unreasonable or bigoted to treat the unique joining of sexually complementary partners uniquely. But in order to see that this is a reasonable understanding that isn’t motivated by hate,...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Alan addresses the following claim: Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
There’s no consistent reason under the new definition of marriage why polyamorists should be denied what’s legally available to others.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
What is marriage, why does it matter, and what are the consequences of redefining it? Ryan Anderson explains.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
The claim that “atheists are as moral as Christians” is meaningless if we’re operating under different systems of morality.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
David Brooks’s op-ed in the New York Times on “The Mental Virtues” reminds us that “character tests are pervasive even in modern everyday life. It’s possible to be heroic if you’re just...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Humans are more valuable than animals and so eating meat is permissible.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Reasonable Faith has released another apologetics video, and this one explains the moral argument for the existence of God.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Alan answers the question of whether people who eat meat are unjustly discriminating against sentient animals.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Here’s what J. Warner Wallace has to say about the charge that Christians are too biased to fairly evaluate evidence.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Since secular philosophies, like religions, point to an ultimate reality, they can be evaluated, just as religions can, by identifying their idols.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
The third of Nancy Pearcey’s five principles for evaluating worldviews is, “Test the idol: Does it contradict what we know about the world?”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
There are many ideas we simply take for granted as natural and obvious, when in fact they didn’t exist until the arrival of Christianity changed things completely.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Nancy Pearcey explains how to find where a worldview contradicts itself.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Some Christians think the way to avoid being “conformed to this world” (Rom. 12:2) is by avoiding “worldly” ideas. A better strategy is to learn the skills to critically evaluate them.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Any worldview that lacks the ability to explain what we know to be true—that there are objective moral facts, regardless of whether an individual or an entire society rejects them—is devastatingly...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Remember when I talked about our culture biting absurd bullets? Here’s how it works.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
The Supreme Court decision yesterday won’t just affect marriage. Giving the government the power to redefine a pre-political institution changes the relationship of the government to all of our...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Most people—religious or otherwise—have no idea what marriage is, why it exists, and what we need it for, and it’s dangerous to fundamentally change things when you don’t understand why...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
More disturbing than the fact that a new definition of marriage is now the law of the land is the way in which this transformation was accomplished.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
Many people believe that belief in God’s existence is merely an evidence issue. That is, given enough evidence, everyone would believe. But is it really that simple? Does belief in God merely...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 11:41 PM
Alan responds to an argument against God’s existence.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 4:19 PM
Alan distinguishes between two types of soul development and shares his thoughts on which one we’ll experience in Heaven.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 5:20 PM
Alan responds to an atheist’s challenge: “You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.”
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 26, 2019 7:01 PM
Tim highlights the eternal significance and exclusivity of Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 9:56 PM
Here’s my response to this week’s challenge:
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
Aristotle saw the development of habituated virtue as being central to human flourishing. How does his view match up with the biblical view?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Tolerance, one of America’s noblest virtues, has been so distorted it’s become a vice.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Learn how to be consistent in your moral reasoning.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:07 PM
If Earth Day is justified by the moral concept of stewardship of the planet, its celebrants might be surprised about what else comes in that worldview package.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
If Earth Day is justified by the moral concept of stewardship of the planet, its celebrants might be surprised about what else comes in that worldview package.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM
The passage of C-250 in the Canadian Parliament this spring pushed hate crime legislation to new extremes. Can one be against hate crimes, yet still oppose hate crime laws? Here are three good...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:07 PM
For any knowledge at all to be possible there must be true things and there must be false things.
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