Canada’s equivalent to Christianity Today is a magazine called Faith Today and they just published a review of Jesus Loves Canaanites in their Jan/Feb issue. The brief print review includes two outright falsehoods about the book and a strawman summary of the argument. Faith Today has since posted a slightly longer review. That review is slightly […]
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My Debate With Aron Ra
My debate with Aron Ra is now available for your viewing pleasure. It was a cracking exchange that ranged widely over concepts like worldview, epistemology, the ethics of discourse, and yes, biblical violence. ?
Grace is Not Unique to Christianity, Even if a C.S. Lewis Anecdote Claims that It Is.
Philip Yancey begins chapter four of his most popular book, What’s So Amazing About Grace? with this famous anecdote about C.S. Lewis: “During a British conference on comparative religions, experts from around the world debated what, if any, belief was unique to the Christian faith. They began eliminating possibilities. Incarnation? Other religions had different versions of […]
You Can’t Save Biblical Inerrancy By Limiting it to Faith and Morals
Many biblical inerrantists limit the term to “faith and morals”: that is, the biblical authors made no errors in terms of their communication on theological and ethical topics. But that more modest inerrancy still fails. For example, multiple biblical authors endorse severe corporal punishment of children, actions we would consider abusive and immoral today. They […]
Franklin Graham’s Disinformation is Costing Lives. Does Samaritan’s Purse Care?
Vaccines save lives. Even Donald Trump is now promoting the vaccines, much to the chagrin of right-wing “pundits” like Candace Owens. But it is the following tweet from Franklin Graham, son of Billy and president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse which is ostensibly a humanitarian aid organization, that truly took my breath away: Christians around […]
My Kennenth Copeland Argument Refutes Naturalism!
Here is a novel argument to refute naturalism (i.e. the view that only natural things exist). If a person is demon-possessed then naturalism is false. Kenneth Copeland is demon-possessed. Therefore, naturalism is false. Premise 1 is analytically true and the argument is valid, so all I need is a defense of premise 2. And here […]
I Preached a Hellfire and Brimstone Sermon … and I Was on Fire
This year my church invited me to preach on January 2. So of course I preached on the under-reported doctrine of hell. ?
