Believers have a hard time understanding atheists' conceptuality of 'spirituality'… about which, whilst I'm sure it varies considerably from individual to individual, I think I can safely say that I speak for a...
Being the nerd that I am, I must confess that sometimes random things bother me. This week, it’s Bart Ehrman claiming that the Bible is full of contradictions. Bart Ehrman is probably the most popular Bible cri...
If Protestants had patron saints, C. S. Lewis would be the patron saint of campus ministers. He worked on the college campuses of Oxford and Cambridge for most of his adult life dealing with students. He wrote...
Sometimes I think Pascal’s wager gets an unfair rap. It’s arguably his most famous and least understood idea. The basic argument of the wager was found in fragment form in his unpublished Pensées (thoughts). Th...
File this under “What Not To Do When Lady Doubt Comes Knocking”: Treat every question as if it’s of equal importance and start to cultivate an all-or-nothing mindset about every issue. What am I talking about? ...
Here’s one unhealthy response to doubt: Be very afraid that your faith won’t endure to the end. I understand the impulse. If you think your eternal destiny hangs on the content of your beliefs, then any waverin...
Today I was filling out a form and I was asked to define who God is, explain Jesus Christ’s relationship to the church and discuss my own personal faith commitments in 250-500 words. My first thought was, “That...
A few months ago my wife had plans on a Saturday morning, meaning it was my responsibility alone to take care of the kids. I was asking her about what we had in the fridge for breakfast and as she walked out th...