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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM

Until recently, the Bible contained the only evidence for the return of the Jews

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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM

A first-century marble tablet containing an “edict of Caesar” calls for the death penalty for anyone who removes a body from a tomb. Is there a connection to Christianity?

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America’s Unchristian Beginnings?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 24, 2020 4:05 AM

Greg responds to an L.A. Times Op-Ed article by this title.

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Literature and the Gospels’ Genre

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

C.S. Lewis is well known for being an apologist and writer. But first, he was a literature scholar.

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Heretic Reformer

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

John Wycliffe was so despised by the church because of his reform efforts that 20 years after his death in 1384, declared a heretic by a church council, his bones were exhumed, burned, and strewn...

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What About the Inquisition?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 10:07 PM

We all expect the Spanish Inquisition to show up sooner or later in our discussions with atheists. Does the presence of the Inquisition in Christian history discredit all of Christianity? Does it...

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Restoring People: The Leprosy Doctor

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

Paul Brand was born to missionary parents in India. He became a surgeon in England and returned to India to care for leprosy patients.

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Christianity and Culture

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

How the monasteries preserved and advanced education and culture in the middle ages...

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How Can We Reconcile Differences Between the Accounts of Jesus’ Birth?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Nov 30, 2023 9:25 PM

New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman offers an example of what he believes to be an irreconcilable contradiction in the Christmas account. But, while Matthew and Luke give some different details, it’s...

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What Luke Actually Wrote

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

A caller to the radio program asked about answering a historical challenge to Luke 2 that Bart Ehrman has raised.

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Archaeological Find Supports Pre-Exilic Date for Biblical Texts

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM

Israeli mathematicians and archaeologists say they have found evidence to suggest that key biblical texts may have been composed earlier than some scholars think.

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Father of Modern Taxonomy

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

You’ve seen plants referred to by their scientific names, such as Rosa rubiginosa. That form of naming plants and other living things was introduced by a Christian who was a scientist named Carolus...

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Generations of Medical Missionaries

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

Rev. Dr. John Scudder, Sr., founded the first Western Medical Mission in Asia in Ceylon in 1819. He also founded a family of medical missionaries whose combined service covers four...

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A Very Pagan Christmas?

Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Dec 16, 2021 12:35 AM

You might have heard that we celebrate Christmas on December 25th because Emperor Constantine decided to Christianize a pagan holiday. But is that story true?

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The Resurrection Is the Tiebreaker

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM

What would happen if the bones of Jesus were discovered tomorrow? Imagine archaeologists find an ossuary—bone box—with Jesus’ name on it, and they are able to say conclusively that these are...

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Virtue, Faith, and Freedom

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Aug 1, 2019 6:23 PM

In his book, Unspeakable: Facing up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror, Os Guinness describes the difference a worldview can make.

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Explain Textual Criticism to Your Friends

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On May 27, 2021 9:05 PM

A recent interview is a helpful summary of what textual criticism reveals to us about the reliability of the New Testament text.

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Apologetics Film in Theaters on April 24th

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM

You can’t talk to a skeptic for long without hearing objections about the reliability of the biblical text, so this is a topic we all need to be familiar with.

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#STRask: April 28, 2016

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM

Greg answers questions about what the biblical basis is for thinking people go to hell immediately at death, if imprecatory psalms are still usable, why God didn’t make Adam, Eve, Cain, and Jesus...

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Evidence That Demonstrates John Is a Reliable Historical Source

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM

The discovery of the Pool of Bethesda in the late 19th century confirms the historical setting in John 5 and supports John’s claim that he was an eyewitness to what he reports.

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