Ten Turning Points: Some Objections to the Resurrection

Did Jesus rise from the dead? No other question in history matters as much. If Jesus came back as victor over the grave, then nothing else could be the same. No moral teaching, no philosophy, no government, no event in nature, nothing could have an impact approaching that of death’s demise. If on the other

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Reason Rally Irony

Forgive me for enjoying some irony. Before the Reason Rally, the True Reason group I’ve been co-leading was told  repeatedly, “Don’t come! Don’t spoil our fun! Don’t crash our party!” David Silverman, the lead organizer for the rally, told us that if we “interfered” we would be escorted away by “plentiful” security. And now on Amazon.com

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Tried By the Faith

  It is inevitable that the intellectual difficulties which each successive generation of Christians is called to discuss, should seem relatively larger than they are; and need from time to time, to therefore to be replaced in their proper perspective. For if we look back on the years that are past, we see that men

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True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenge of Atheism

In case you’ve missed up till now, check out this ebook! Where else will you find so much from so many from top Christian thinkers for only $2.99? True Reason is not your ordinary answer to atheism’s challenges. It’s not just about errors in evidence or reasoning. True Reason takes on the New Atheists’ most central identity, their most

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The Lion Awakes!

(I’m told that we can help finish this movie.) And then there is this 8 minute discussion of the film’s spiritual dimensions: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy41czilFq0]

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Images of Reason?

I just  saw this for the first time. I’m asking around because I’m wondering who did it. But I sure like it.

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Become a “Centurion!”

Join one of the most stimulating, encouraging, and powerful teams of worldview-aware Christian leaders around: Do you sometimes feel you’re the only one seeking to discuss today’s worldly issues from a Christian viewpoint? Do you often feel challenged by others to explain what you believe? You are not alone! The Centurions Program gathers Christians together

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Dawkins: Not Always Wrong About Religion

Robert Wright complains in The Atlantic about Dawkins’s unreasonableness. Strangely, where Wright finds him most unreasonable I find Dawkins most reasonable. Dawkins wants to erase the distinction between private and public belief. I say bravo! Religious belief has been relegated to a private sphere as if it were not a matter of knowledge or of

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Two Atheists’ Strategic Self-Trivialization

David Albert reviews Lawrence Krauss’s newest book and ends with this When I was growing up, where I was growing up, there was a critique of religion according to which religion was cruel, and a lie, and a mechanism of enslavement, and something full of loathing and contempt for every­thing essentially human. Maybe that was

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Shadow To Light

I want to take a quick moment to recommend a blog to you: Shadow To Light. I wish I could say more about the blogger there–but he does excellent work, that much I can tell you. This, for example, on some serious errors in Victor Stenger’s recent New Scientist article. I wrote on that piece

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