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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.

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

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

Target’s Policy on Transgender Use of Bathrooms and Fitting Rooms

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

Alan offers three quick thoughts about the recent statement made by Target to “welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their...

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

Should we ban conversion therapy?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

Alan defines some terms in the debate over whether conversion therapy should be banned and, by doing so, answers whether efforts to change a person’s same-sex attraction should ever be attempted.

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

The Gospel According to Columbo

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM

What if Lieutenant Columbo was a Christian? How would he present the Gospel? What would he say and how would he say it? Alan says Columbo would ask three questions. Find out what they are in this...

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Thinking Out Loud Topic: Tactics and Tools

Does Our Argument Against Same-sex Marriage Commit the Slippery Slope Fallacy?

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

Alan answers the challenge that opponents of same-sex marriage sometimes commit the slippery slope fallacy when they argue that same-sex marriage will lead to other forms of “marriage” like...

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

In the Beginning God…

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM

Alan shows how you can use two simple questions to show that the Christian story of creation is true and reasonable.

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

Upholding the Value of Disabled People

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM

Alan describes the significant shift that is occurring in our society that affects how human beings are valued.

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

Do Our Souls Continue to Develop in Heaven?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM

Alan answers the question of whether our soul continues to develop in heaven and, if so, in what way or capacity.

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

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