The Tentative Apologist is:
progressively evangelical,
generously orthodox,
rigorously analytic,
revolutionary Christian thinking.
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Do All Atheists Suppress Knowledge of God?
By Randal
In this short interview with The Analytic Christian I discuss Romans 1 and atheism. ?
Speaking to Abraham’s Silence: A Review
By Randal
J. Richard Middleton. Abraham’s Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God. Baker Academic, 2021. The binding (Aqedah) of Isaac is one of the most troubling stories in all Scripture. And it is not hard to see why. The story depicts God commanding a father to butcher […]
“Speaking Their Truth”? How conservative Christians make false claims to defend truth
By Randal
In Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too, I rebut Alisa Childers’ erroneous attempt to claim that progressive Christians widely embrace a radical voluntarist relativism about truth according to which people can make claims true simply by willing that they be true. The example Childers cites is a person who wants bacon to be healthy by declaring “Bacon […]