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August 17, 2015
Good Quote—Josh McDowell
“Having convictions can be defined as being so thoroughly convinced that Christ and His Word are both objectively true and relationally meaningful that you act on your beliefs regardless of the consequences.” Josh McDowell’s birthday todayFiled under: Christian Apologetics Tagged: Convictions, Faith and Reason, Josh McDowell, Relationship with God
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August 11, 2015
Should Christians Renounce Donald Trump?
“Can anyone stop Trump?” Since Donald Trump’s performance at the first Republican presidential debate, broadcast by Fox News August 6 (2015), there has been much braying, blasting, and boosting about his candidacy. The braying and blasting come mostly from establishment Republicans (for example, Charles Krauthammer and George Will) and a few of his Republican opponents. […]
June 15, 2015
Smile, Somebody Needs You!
A few weeks ago I visited a couple in a hospital in Los Angeles. They were friends of friends of mine, and they were in Los Angeles because the wife required treatment for a very rare condition. They had traveled many miles from their home state and really didn’t have close ties with people in […]
June 9, 2015
St. Ephraem—Syrian Apologist of the Fourth Century?
Students of the life and work of Ephraem the Syriac agree that he died on this date in 373 A.D. He wrote hymns, poems, sermons, and biblical commentary. His style and the tenor of his theology was a blend of the mystical and the intellectually staid. In Theandros, the online journal of Orthodox Christian theology […]
Conrad Emil Lindberg—On God and Revelation
On this date in 1852, Lutheran theologian Conrad Emil Lindberg was born at Jönköping, Sweden. In 1871, Lindberg (1852-1930) moved to the United States to attend Augustana College and Theological Seminary. In due course, he was ordained and appointed to ministry in American churches serving Swedish immigrants. Later he returned to Augustana College where he […]
June 8, 2015
The Weight of Glory—C. S. Lewis Speaks to “Ordinary” People
Peter Kreeft has called it C. S. Lewis’s “golden sermon.” Walter Hooper places it first in an otherwise chronologically-ordered series of addresses by C. S. Lewis, saying that “The Weight of Glory” is “so magnificent that not only do I dare to consider it worthy of a place with some of the Church Fathers, but […]
Great Dates in the Apologetics Calendar—June 8
June 8 is unusual for the many dates bearing some relation to Christian apologetics. 1686 – Humphrey Prideaux graduated with D.D. from Christ Church, Oxford (installed as Dean of Norwich on this date in 1702) 1809 – Death of Thomas Paine, antagonist against Christianity and author of The Age of Reason (published in three installments: […]
June 7, 2015
The Quick Write for the Uptight—Speed-Drafting with a Purpose
This morning I wrote a 700-page document that will be part of a book I’m working on. I wrote quick, as the ideas kept flowing, one point leading to another. When this happens, digression inevitably happens. During a quick-write, I manage that by putting the detour in brackets and pressing on. I stop when the […]
William Warburton’s 18th-Century Defense of Christianity
The 18th century produced a great many thinkers who made lasting contributions to the study of Christianity’s credentials. On the skeptical side, David Hume has been most significant. William Paley and Bishop Butler have had the greatest enduring influence on behalf of Christianity. Lesser lights from today’s vantage point were leading figures in their time. […]
