Last spring, my church hosted a debate about the textual reliability of the New Testament. The response to the event was mostly positive, but one reader emailed me to explain that the debate was a bad idea because...Satan could have hijacked it. I promise I did not make that up. … [Read more...]

Greg West at the Poached Egg website has graciously shared a story of his own personal failure in dialoguing about life's biggest questions. He described his story over Skype and I used the recording to pen this version of the story. He has reviewed it and confirmed its accuracy. The Story Dolores (not her real name) was a friend of Greg's. Though she and her husband were … [Read more...]

There seems to be a widespread misconception, even within the church, that the ambition of Christian apologists is to argue nonbelievers into submission to the truth of Christianity. I  admit that up until a few years ago, I even held a version of this idea myself. I thought that if your arguments were "good enough," the person they were aimed at would hit their knees in … [Read more...]