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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Alan responds to Bill Maher’s challenge that God needs to keep the devil alive so Christians will live in fear and keep going to church.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Theology

Must we kill humans to save other humans?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

Alan explains why embryonic stem cell research is not only morally problematic, but ineffective at treating disease and disability. Instead, he offers a scientific alternative.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Bioethics

Marriage Equality Already Exists

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Alan offers a helpful question to answer the charge of same-sex marriage advocates that claim homosexuals are denied equal protection under the law.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Sexuality and Gender

Are You Ready to Talk to a Muslim?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Alan tells the story of how he recently role-played a Muslim to a group of Christians. Find out how they responded to the Muslim challenge.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Other Worldviews

Should American Christians Retreat from the Same-sex Marriage Issue?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

Alan responds to the challenge that American Christians should retreat from the same-sex marriage issue because it’s unwinnable for them.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Christian Living

Tweeting the Only Way to Heaven

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM

Alan recently explained in a single tweet (138 characters) why Jesus is the only way to heaven. Find out what he said and how he said it.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Theology

Is Religion a Threat to Morality?

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.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Philosophy

Atheism’s Burden of Proof

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM

Alan explains why although atheists may not have to prove the absence of God, their view still entails three incredible assertions that require a lot of explaining.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Other Worldviews

Why I Answered an Argument for Same-sex Marriage

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

I explain why I responded to a recent YouTube video that went viral. It’s of Zach Wahls making an appeal for same-sex marriage to the Iowa House of Representatives.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Sexuality and Gender

Do Pro-Lifers Want the Government to Regulate a Woman’s Body?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM

Alan responds to an article claiming that women’s equality can’t exist until the government doesn’t regulate a woman’s body, in the same way it doesn’t regulate a man’s body.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Bioethics

When God Doesn’t Promise

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM

Sometimes people hold God accountable to promises He never made. Alan explains how this happens when people don’t pay attention to the Bible’s genres or literary styles.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Theology

Is a Human Embryo Without a Brain Alive?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Alan responds to an interesting defense for abortion. People argue that since a brain dead person is not alive, an unborn human embryo can’t be alive either because it doesn’t have a brain.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Bioethics

Less Is More: A Case for the Resurrection

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM

Find out what scholars—even skeptical, non-Christian ones—are saying about the facts surrounding the resurrection and how that can be used as evidence that Jesus rose from the grave.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: History

Are We at War with Muslims?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

Alan answers the question of whether we are at war with Muslims. He also offers a handy tactic to help you determine whether a doctrine or behavior is truly Islamic.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Other Worldviews

The Reformation the Church Doesn’t Need

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

Alan attended a ’gay Christian’ conference that intends to reform the church to make it affirm practicing homosexuals. Listen to his thoughts about his experience there.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Sexuality and Gender

Can You Argue Someone Into the Kingdom?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM

Many Christians claim you can’t argue someone into the kingdom, suggesting that apologetics is useless for evangelism. Alan address this question and explains why he, in part, agrees.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Christian Living

Does the Biblical View of Marriage Contain Multiple Definitions?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Advocates of same-sex marriage attempt to dismiss the biblical view of marriage by claiming that scripture condones multiple definitions of marriage. Here’s my response to this challenge.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Sexuality and Gender

Inoculate, Not Isolate

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM

Alan took his 10 year-old son to UCLA to engage abortion-choice advocates who were twice his son’s age. Find out how and why he did that.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Bioethics

Being Tactical with Jehovah’s Witnesses

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM

In our discussions with Jehovah’s Witnesses, we need to be tactical. That is, we need to anticipate their typical maneuvers to better guide the conversation. This will give us the best opportunity...

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Clear-Thinking Christianity Topic: Other Worldviews

Serving the Persecuted Church

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

Alan gives a short recap of his trip to Beirut, Lebanon. He highlights the experiences of training the persecuted church and meeting his cousin who recently fled Baghdad, Iraq.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Christian Living

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