Thinking Christian Blog

Last week I got involved in what I would have hoped to be a dialogue with Randal Rauser regarding a handful of tweets he'd put up on Twitter. It turned out to be pseudo-dialogue, with him refusing or abstaining from ...
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A video from the self-styled "Tentative Apologist" Randal Rauser has roused me to wake up this website again. I think he thinks he's defending progressive Christianity. I'm no progressive Christian myself, but if I were, I would ask him to ...
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Greetings! Some missionary newsletters might start with "Greetings from the other side of the world." I was thinking of starting this one with, "Greetings from the other side of ... ," but  I wasn't sure quite what to enter in ...
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I have good news. Lots of it. I’ve been holding out on you too long, and I need to pass it along. It's about bad news getting better — amazingly better. It happened slowly, and gradually, but in retrospect it ...
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Photo: snapshot I took during Christian leadership meeting mentioned below, led by James Robison, in the Life Today TV studio. (It was not televised.) It’s happening — at last! Step by step, this past year or two, I've been building ...
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(Also published at The Stream.) What is marriage? What is it for? Why does marriage matter? Ten years ago, those were the hottest questions on the planet. Now they’re ... nothing. No one even asks anymore, at least not in ...
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Everyone's in a rush to find their "authentic self." We're going about it the wrong way, though. We find our true selves by giving up false gods and finding the true God. We've missed his reality, however.  Even Christians have, ...
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I’m writing this during the winter storm of February 3, 2022. So far it’s turning out less disruptive than what we’d prepped for, when earlier forecasts had said we could get nearly half an inch of freezing rain. That would ...
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Christians aren't supposed to say we have the one truth, right? So goes the opinion around our culture, anyway. We're supposed to be "humble" about our beliefs; to give equal worth and respect to all other beliefs. That's what culture ...
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The Apologetics Fellowship at a special-invite luncheon with conference speaker Alisa Childers. It’s time for an update on ministry, especially for prayer and financial supporters. It’s time, too, for thankfulness to God and to you, because I am seeing my ...
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