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2025

October 24 - The Wideness of the Sea: How to be Evangelical and Gay Affirming (gay marriage, homosexuality, sexual ethics)
February 24 - DEI is Not a Four-Letter Word: A Simple Explanation and Defense (DEI)

2024

October 30 - Let’s Talk About White Male Privilege (equity, white male privilege)
September 21 - The Warm Embrace of “Canadian Nice” (Canada, Edmonton, Folk Fest)
September 11 - My Motorcycle Philosophy (Honda Magna, motorcycle, philosophy)
May 5 - A Short Discussion of Spiritual Abuse (spiritual abuse, Veritas Solutions)
April 26 - Disabuse: A One Day Course on Eliminating Abuse in the Church (abuse, course, disabuse, investigations)
April 12 - The Danger of Abuse of Power and Sexual Harassment (abuse of power; sexual harassment)
April 10 - Rape, Abortion, and Prolife Absolutism (abortion, bioethics, ethics, prolife, rape)
March 27 - Craig on Killing Canaanites: A Conversation on New Evangelicals (Canaanites, interview, New Evangelicals, William Lane Craig)
March 19 - William Lane Craig’s Views on Biblical Violence: A Discussion (biblical violence, Capturing Christianity, genocide, interview)
March 18 - Divinely Commanded Child Killing, Mental Illness, and William Lane Craig (Alex O'Connor, genocide, genocide apologetics, William Lane Craig)
March 5 - Investigating Abuse in the Church: An Interview (abuse, interview, investigations, Veritas Solutions)
February 29 - Abuse in the Church (abuse, church, investigations)
February 24 - John Howard Yoder was a serial sexual predator. Stop studying him as a wise Christian ethicist (ethics, John Howard Yoder, sexual harassment, sexual predation, spiritual abuse, Stanley Hauerwas)
February 20 - Me and Billy Joel (Billy Joel, existentialism)
January 20 - Naturalism and Theism Compared and Contrasted (naturalism, theism)

2023

December 31 - Job in the Ring: A Review of The Iron Claw (The Iron Claw; review)
December 28 - Beth Moore, Baby Killer? (All My Knotted Up Life, Beth Moore, memoir, review)
December 25 - From Teaching to Investigating: Thoughts on My 2023 (career, investigations, vocation)
November 27 - The John Stackhouse Case Continued: The Witnesses Speak (allegations, John Stackhouse, sexual harassment)
November 26 - The Fall of John Stackhouse? An Analysis of the Investigation (investigation, John Stackhouse, sexual harassment)
November 25 - When it comes to sexual assault and harassment allegations should we ‘Believe Women’? (false reporting, MeToo, sexual assault, sexual harassment)
November 22 - Why I (Still) Love Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)
November 18 - Shattered Image: Bruxy Cavey and the Meeting House Scandal with Rachel Browne (Bruxy Cavey, interview, investigation, scandal)
November 12 - Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the Celebrity Conversion with the Weak Apologetic (apologetics, atheism, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, conversion, existentialism, meaning)
November 11 - The Power of Recognition: My Kiss Concert Review (concert review, Kiss)
November 5 - Harassment and Apophasis: Lessons from Donald Trump (apophasis, bullying, Donald Trump, harassment, workplace investigation)
October 31 - Blame it on the Singers: The Tragic and Triumphant Story of Milli Vanilli (Milli Vanilli, review)
October 29 - My Statement on the Abuse Allegations Against Mike Bickle (abuse, investigations, Mike Bickle)
October 28 - Owning the Unknown: A Review (atheism, Owning the Unknown, review, Robert Charles Wilson, skepticism)
September 24 - Atheists Who Love God (atheism, dialogue, God, lecture)
August 23 - Satanism and Christianity: How Wide the Divide? (Not as Wide as You Might Think!) (dialogue, interview, Satanism)
August 21 - Christian Hospitality and the Problem of Selfish Motivation (hospitality, motivation)
August 21 - Christians and Satanists in Dialogue (dialogue, interview, Satanism, The Satanic Temple)
August 15 - Defanging Aslan? The Problem of Carnivores in the Kingdom (carnivory, death, heaven, new creation)
July 14 - Matthew 18 as a Recipe for Abuse (The Unhealthy Church Part 2)
July 9 - The Unhealthy Church Part 1: Taking Up Your Cross Does Not Mean Subjecting Yourself to Abuse (ethics, Kingdom of God, morality)
June 30 - Intellectual Honesty, Transparency, and the Pro-Life Movement: An Interview (abortion, dialogue, interview)
June 28 - Once Loved, Always Loved? Christian Universalism with Andrew Hronich (Andrew Hronich, interview, universalism)
June 20 - From Professor to Investigator: Announcing My New Career (investigations, Veritas Solutions)
June 6 - Franklin Graham’s Attempt to Slander Gay Pride (Franklin Graham, gay pride, LGBT)
May 23 - On Christians Who Fight Abortion But Defend Genocidal Baby-Killing (biblical violence, ethics, hermeneutics)
May 20 - Talking Theology with the Godless Granny (Godless Granny, interview, The Doubters' Creed, theology)
May 13 - Are Transwomen Women? (ethics, philosophy, transgender)
May 10 - Progressive Christianity on the Counsel of Trent Podcast (Counsel of Trent, interview, progressive Christianity)
April 26 - Apologetic Dilettantes and Epistemic Humility (Denis Lamoureux, epistemic humility)
April 26 - From Atheist to Young Earth Creationist: An Interview with Denis Lamoureux (Part 1) (atheism, Denis Lamoureux, evolution, evolutionary creation, interview, young earth creationism)
April 23 - A Burning Issue: How My View of Hell Has Changed (eschatology, eternal conscious torment, hell)
April 22 - Arguing with Jesus? Calling Out Evangelical Hypocrisy on Gay Marriage (evangelicalism, Frank Turek, gay marriage, homosexuality, hypocrisy)
April 16 - Living in the Greatest Plot Twist Ever: A Sermon (sermon; resurrection; eschatology)
April 16 - Debriefing the Ehrman/Bass Debate (apologetics, Bart Ehrman, debate, Justin Bass, resurrection)
April 11 - The Trauma of Hell Doctrine: A Conversation with Mark Karris (eternal conscious torment, hell, Mark Karris, therapy, trauma)
April 10 - Does Paul’s Epistle to the Romans Imply There are no Actual Atheists? (Romans 1; atheism; epistemology; apologetics)
April 2 - Debriefing the Matt Dillahunty Debate (debate, interview, Matt Dillahunty; SJ Thomason; humanism)
April 1 - Humanism vs. Christianity: My Latest Debate with Matt Dillahunty (Christianity, debate, humanism, Matt Dillahunty)
April 1 - Dear Christian, Before You Call Islam a Wicked Religion, Consider This (Islam; Christianity)
March 27 - Who Makes Amazingly Little Sense? A Response to Tom Gilson (evangelicalism, progressive Christianity, Tom Gilson)
March 27 - If Kidnapping Girls is Always Wrong, What Do You Do With Numbers 31? (biblical violence, hermeneutics)
March 25 - The Disappointment of Superficial Science/Faith Integration (Arnold Sikkema; Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation; science)
March 24 - When Christian Apologists Defend Kidnapping Girls (biblical violence, Jonathan McLatchie, Midianites, rape)
March 15 - Progressive Christianity on Apocalypse Here: Debriefing a Debate (Alisa Childers, Apocalypse Here, interview, Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too)
March 13 - My Progressive Christianity Debate with David Wolcott (Alisa Childers, David Wolcott, debate, evangelicalism, progressive Christianity, Tim Hull)
March 7 - Being a Christian When You Don’t Believe It’s True? The Capturing Christianity Interview (apologetics, Capturing Christianity, interview, The Doubters' Creed)
March 6 - Red Pen Avoidance: How Evangelical Apologists Avoid the Main Issue (apologetics, Red Pen Logic)
March 2 - Pantheism Paranoia! Deconstructing Alisa Childers’ Misinformation (Alisa Childers, panentheism, pantheism)
February 27 - Frank Turek Claims Atheists Are Beyond Salvation (apologetics, atheism, Frank Turek)
February 25 - Are Progressives Like Me Going to Hell? A Response to Sean McDowell and Tom Gilson (progressive Christianity, Sean McDowell, Tom Gilson)
February 24 - Sean McDowell’s Radical Sectarian Attack on Progressive Christians (fundamentalism, progressive Christianity, Sean McDowell)
February 20 - How Alisa Childers Hopes Rachel Held Evans Got Saved Before She Died (Alisa Childers, Rachel Held Evans)
February 20 - Christianity Without Belief? Appearing on a Call In Show (interview)
February 20 - Not Another Gospel: A Rebuttal to the False Teaching of Alisa Childers (Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?, fundamentalism, progressive Christianity)
February 18 - Top Five Fears of a Fundamentalist Childhood (fundamentalism)
February 16 - Deconstructing an Evangelical Worldview Chart (indoctrination, progressive Christianity, worldview)
February 11 - What’s Wrong with Christian Fundamentalism? (fundamentalism; interview; Christian Bellows)
February 10 - How Christian Apologists Perpetuate a Persecution Delusion (apologetics; Greg Koukl; Stand to Reason; indoctrination)
February 9 - How to Be a Christian When You Don’t Believe It’s True with Emerson Green (interview, The Doubters' Creed)
February 7 - In Universalism, Does God Defeat the Devil? (theology, universalism)
February 6 - The Case for Christian Universalism with Robin Parry (interview, Robin Parry, universalism)
February 3 - Can you be a Christian if you don’t believe? A Discussion on “Reason to Doubt” (interview, The Doubters' Creed)
February 2 - Christian Apologists Talking Badly About Secular People (apologetics, hospitality)
January 30 - A Conversation on the Creed of Doubters (Curious Christianity, interview, The Doubters' Creed)
January 30 - A Conversation on Progressive Christianity with Stephen Bedard (interview, progressive Christianity, Stephen Bedard)
January 27 - Evangelical Apologetics and the Far Right Conspiracy Problem (Donald Trump, evangelicalism, MAGA, Republicanism)
January 27 - Can You Prove Jesus is the Messiah with Biblical Prophecy?
January 26 - An Essay on Divine Hiddenness (Guest Post by Joe Hinman) (divine hiddenness, guest post, Joe Hinman)
January 26 - Is progressive scholarship hurting the church? An Interview (evangelicalism, interview, progressive Christianity, scholarship)
January 20 - Does God Limit Evidence of His Existence to Protect Our Free Will? (apologetics, atheism, epistemology)
January 17 - Is it Okay to Make Fun of Fundamentalist Christians? (Capturing Christianity, Christian Bellows, fundamentalism, interview)
January 13 - The Doubters’ Creed and Apologetics Through Agreement (apologetics, The Doubters' Creed)
January 10 - The Doubters’ Creed is Unleashed to the World (doubt, faith, The Doubters' Creed)
January 7 - Randal Rauser Interviews Christian Bellows (Christian Bellows, fundamentalism, satire)
January 7 - The Doubters’ Creed-My Forthcoming Book (The Doubters' Creed)

2022

December 22 - Conversing About My Inner Atheist (Conversations with My Inner Atheist, interview)
December 16 - Christian Bellows on the Canaanite Genocide (biblical violence, Christian Bellows, genocide, satire)
December 6 - Christianity for the Hesitant: An Interview with John Stackhouse (apologetics, interview, John Stackhouse)
November 29 - Saving the World One Mosquito Net at a Time! Join the Movement! (Against Malaria Foundation, AMF, fundraiser)
November 28 - Christian Bellows on the Design Argument (apologetics, Christian Bellows, satire)
November 24 - It’s Time to Meet Christian Bellows! (Christian Bellows, fundamentalism, humor, satire)
November 22 - Christian Bellows: The Full Cover (book cover, Christian Bellows)
November 21 - Why I Think Frank Turek is an Evil Person (apologetics, evil, Frank Turek)
November 16 - Wokeness: A Brief Word (woke culture, wokeness)
November 15 - Christian Bellows! The Cover for My New Book (Christian Bellows, satire)
November 9 - An Announcement on My Fifteenth Book (apologetics, book, satire)
October 30 - What Should We Think of the Enneagram? An Interview with Jay Medenwaldt (enneagram, interview, Jay Medenwaldt)
October 28 - Practical Tips for Combating Medical Disinformation (COVID19, disinformation)
October 27 - My Upcoming Apologetics Conference (apologetics, evangelicalism, satire)
October 27 - Speaking Your Truth? Unpacking Evangelical Apologetic Rhetoric (apologetics, evangelicalism, relativism, rhetoric, truth)
October 25 - Defending Christians Who Do Not Doubt God’s Existence (belief in God, doubt, Sarah Salviander)
October 24 - Interview on Deconverted Man (apologetics, atheism, interview)
October 24 - Apologetic Advice on Addressing Objections to the Bible (apologetics, Bible, presuppositions)
October 22 - The Many Confusions of Alisa Childers (Alisa Childers, evangelicalism, indoctrination, rhetoric)
October 19 - Red Pen Logic Gets the Red Pen (exegesis, hermeneutics, preaching)
October 18 - Can Skeptical Theism Save Biblical Violence? (biblical violence, skeptical theism)
October 14 - Progressive Christianity: A Caution and an Invitation (Ben Cook, Eastern Orthodoxy, interview, progressive Christianity)
October 13 - Can Atheism Support Objective Morality? (atheism, metaethics, morality)
October 12 - Killing Canaanites? Debriefing the Copan/Rauser Debate (biblical genocide, biblical violence, debate, Paul Copan)
October 10 - Progressive Christians: The Unenlightenment Podcast Interview (interview, Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too, Unenlightment Podcast)
October 10 - If an Atheist Asks About Biblical Violence DON’T SAY THIS! (apologetics, biblical violence, Frank Turek)
October 9 - The Worst Apologetics Talking Point Ever? (apologetics)
October 7 - Debating the Canaanite Genocide with Paul Copan (biblical violence, debate, Jesus Loves Canaanites, Justin Brierley, Paul Copan, Unbelievable)
October 6 - Apologetics Protip: Don’t Pretend to Know What You Don’t Know (apologetics)
October 6 - A Thought Experiment for Skeptics, Naturalists, and Atheists (naturalism, skepticism)
September 29 - Inspiration and Inerrancy: An Interview (Bible, inerrancy, inspiration, interview)
September 28 - Gaslighting the Critics? If you call out Alisa Childers’ falsehoods, you’re not the problem (Alisa Childers, Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too)
September 28 - Biblical Violence, Moral Relativism? (biblical violence, David and Goliath)
September 23 - An Interview with SJ Thomason (interview)
September 19 - Let’s Talk about Christianity and Same-Sex Relationships (ethics, homosexuality, theology)
September 19 - Atheist Edge Debate Debrief and Dialogue (Atheist Edge, biblical violence, hermeneutics, interview, theology)
September 17 - The Many Errors of Alisa Childers (Part 1) (Alisa Childers, progressive Christianity)
September 15 - Did God Command Genocide? An Interview on Capturing Christianity (biblical violence, Capturing Christianity, genocide, hermeneutics, interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
September 12 - Debating Abortion with Trent Horn (abortion, bioethics, ethics, interview, Trent Horn)
September 5 - Biblical Violence: A Friendly Debate with Richard Carrier (biblical violence, debate, Richard Carrier)
August 29 - An Introduction to God, Science, Ideology (Guest Post with Joseph Hinman) (atheism, Joseph Hinman, philosophy)
August 27 - Indoctrinational Apologetics (apologetics, indoctrination)
August 25 - I’m Writing a Book on Christianity and Gay Marriage. Could I be Damned for It? (ethics, gay marriage, homosexuality, LGBT, theology)
August 23 - On Dealing with Deconstruction (deconstruction)
August 17 - Atheist Philosopher Stephen Law on the Problem of Evil and Evil God (evil god, interview, philosophy of religion, problem of evil, Stephen Law)
August 17 - Did Brian McLaren Stay Christian? (Brian McLaren, Christianity, review)
August 15 - Did Brian McLaren Stay Christian? A Review of Do I Stay Christian? (Brian McLaren, Do I Stay Christian?, progressive Christianity, review)
August 13 - Is Hell God’s Punishment or Ours? (hell)
August 12 - Should You Sign a Card for a Gay Marriage? The Conservative Christian’s Dilemma (gay marriage, hospitality)
August 6 - Should Christians Accept the Trinity? A Conversation with Dale Tuggy (Dale Tuggy, interview, theology, Trinity)
August 6 - Are Progressive Christians Christian? My Debate with Doug Groothuis (debate, Douglas Groothuis, Justin Brierley, progressive Christianity, Unbelievable)
August 4 - Are Progressive Christians Non-Creedal? Debunking Alisa Childers’ Misinformation (progressive Christianity)
August 4 - No, the “Mainstream Media” is Not Trying to “Gaslight” You (evangelicalism, fundamentalism, Natasha Crain)
August 3 - Progressive Christians Don’t Care About Doctrine? Rebutting Evangelical Misinformation (doctrine, evangelicalism, progressive Christianity)
August 1 - Why Alisa Childers’ Slurs Against Progressive Christians Deserve No Charity (Alisa Childers, progressive Christianity)
July 29 - What is Wrong with the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy? (Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, inerrancy)
July 28 - Dialogue with a Conservative Christian about Progressive Christianity (evangelicalism, interview, progressive Christianity)
July 27 - I Could’ve Been a Rock Star! On Listening to My 30 Year Old Demo Tape
July 25 - Discussing Progressive Christianity on the Placebo Effect (interview, Placebo Effect, progressive Christianity)
July 20 - The Problem of Canaanite Genocide and Michael Heiser’s Solution (Canaanites, genocide, Michael Heiser)
July 18 - A Conversation with James is Tired on LGBT Issues, Progressive Christianity, Ravi Zacharias, and More! (interview, James is Tired)
July 15 - One Faith No Longer? Debriefing the Conversation with George Yancey (evangelicalism, George Yancey, progressive Christianity)
July 14 - Are Progressive Christians Another Religion? A Discussion with George Yancey (evangelicalism, George Yancey, progressive Christianity, sociology)
July 13 - The Genealogical Adam: A Conversation with Joshua Swamidass
July 8 - Bad Defenses of Alisa Childers: A Response (Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?, progressive Christianity)
July 6 - An Evangelical and a Progressive Christian in Conversation (evangelicalism, interview, progressive Christianity, Ryan Pauly)
July 4 - How Conservative Evangelicals Foment Hatred and Suspicion toward Progressive Christians (Alisa Childers, misinformation, progressive Christianity, Sean McDowell)
July 4 - “Put Your Damn Bible Down”? How Sean McDowell spreads Misinformation About Progressive Christians (apologetics, evangelicalism, misinformation, progressive Christianity, Sean McDowell)
July 1 - An Embryo isn’t a Baby: A Response to Trent Horn (abortion, bioethics, ethics, Trent Horn)
June 29 - What if You’re the Only Thing That Exists? (epistemology, solipsism)
June 25 - Are Progressive Christians Relativists? Rebutting the Absurd Claims of Alisa Childers (Alisa Childers, progressive Christianity, Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too, relativism, truth)
June 25 - My Quick Thoughts on SCOTUS and the Overturning of Roe (abortion, ethics, Roe v. Wade, SCOTUS)
June 24 - On the Idea of (Male) Privilege (male privilege)
June 23 - More Debate on Progressive Christianity with Joshua Swamidass (Capturing Christianity, debate, Joshua Swamidass, progressive Christianity)
June 22 - Strawmanning Progressive Christians: Lessons from Mike Winger (Mike Winger, progressive Christianity, strawman)
June 20 - Progressive Christians, Evangelicals, and Alisa Childers: A Conversation with Joshua Swamidass
June 19 - Progressive Christians and a Reformed Critic
June 18 - Progressive Christianity: An Interview (interview, Philosophy for All, progressive Christianity)
June 18 - Does Progressive Christianity Lead to Atheism? (atheism, progressive Christianity)
June 17 - Why Doesn’t Josh Swamidass like Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too? (Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?, Capturing Christianity, Joshua Swamidass, progressive Christianity)
June 14 - Why It Matters Whether Christianity is Intellectually Respectable: Quick Reflections on the Debate (Dan Barker, debate, reflections)
June 13 - Is Christianity Intellectually Respectable? A Debate with Dan Barker (atheism, Dan Barker, debate)
June 5 - Mike Winger’s Bad Teaching on Progressive Christianity (Part 3): Coming to Terms with Experience (Mike Winger, progressive Christianity)
June 4 - Mike Winger’s Bad Teaching on Progressive Christianity (Part 2) (Mike Winger, progressive Christianity)
June 2 - Mike Winger’s Bad Teaching on Progressive Christianity (Part 1) (Mike Winger, progressive Christianity)
May 31 - Progressive Christians are not trying to “get” you: A response to Whaddo You Meme? (Jon McCray, progressive Christianity, Whaddo You Meme?)
May 27 - The Absolutist Prolife Position: A Critique (abortion, embryology, ethics, murder)
May 23 - Where do Christian Doctrines Come From? (doctrine, sermon, theology, Wesleyan Quadrilateral)
May 21 - Did Elon Musk Engage in Sexual Harassment? How to Reason like a Professional Investigator (credibility assessment, Elon Musk, sexual harassment)
May 20 - The Religion of Ricky Gervais (atheism, naturalism, religion, Ricky Gervais)
May 18 - Heresy, Orthodoxy, and Progressive Christianity (Adherent Apologetics, interview, Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too)
May 18 - Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too Interview with Mike Austin
May 18 - Epistemic Fallibilism (epistemic fallibilism, interview)
May 17 - Do All Atheists Suppress Knowledge of God? (atheism, biblical hermeneutics, exegesis, hermeneutics, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Romans 1)
May 15 - Speaking to Abraham’s Silence: A Review (Abraham, Abraham's Silence, biblical hermeneutics, biblical violence, hermeneutics, review, Richard Middleton)
May 6 - “Speaking Their Truth”? How conservative Christians make false claims to defend truth (progressive Christianity, relativism, truth)
May 5 - Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too: The Capturing Christianity Interview (Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?, Capturing Christianity, interview, Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too)
May 4 - John Piper Recreates Christianity in his Image (John Piper, mere Christianity, sectarianism)
May 3 - Franklin Graham, Preacher of Hate (Franklin Graham, progressive Christianity)
May 2 - Are We In a Post-Truth Culture? My Response to an Evangelical Talking-Point (apologetics, evangelicalism, post-truth, rhetoric)
May 2 - Enjoying the Old Testament: A Review (Bible, biblical studies, Enjoying the Old Testament, Eric Seibert, review)
April 28 - Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too Is Now Available in Kindle!
April 27 - Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History: A Review (apologetics, Bullies and Saints, Christian history, church history, John Dickson, review)
April 23 - Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too: The Cover Revealed!
April 20 - Sitting on My Hands (progressive Christianity)
April 11 - Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too (Another Gospel? Alisa Childers, Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too)
April 6 - Announcement on My Next Book: Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too (Alisa Childers, Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too)
April 5 - Should Christians Believe Muhammad Rode on a Flying Horse? (epistemology, miracle, testimony)
April 2 - Forgiveness (forgiveness)
March 29 - So I’ve Been Publicly Shamed: Or, Why I Hate Twitter (racism, twitter)
March 28 - Steelmanning, Strawmanning, and Supermanning (logical fallacy, steelman, steelmanning, strawman, strawmanning)
March 23 - How to Respond to Someone Wrestling with Solipsism (chance, Littlewood's Law, solipsism)
March 11 - The Problem with Young Earth Creationism in One AiG Tweet (Answers in Genesis, hermeneutics, young earth creationism)
March 11 - My Statement on Bruxy Cavey’s Sexual Abuse of a Congregant (Bruxy Cavey, sexual abuse)
March 8 - My Dog Sonny Passed Away February 9. The Legacy Continues With Timbit
March 8 - What Happened When Christians Stopped Allegorizing Canaan? (genocide, history, Jesus Loves Canaanites, Philip Jenkins)
March 7 - Why God Did Not Command the Slaughter of the Canaanites, Briefly Explained (biblical violence, hermeneutics, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
March 5 - Hugs and Statistics: A Review of Us Versus Us: The Untold Story of Religion and the LGBT Community (Andrew Marin, LGBT, review)
March 5 - Another Gospel? The Irony of Alisa Childers (Alisa Childers, evangelicalism)
March 4 - The Limits of Defending Biblical Violence By Appealing to a Big, Wild, and Dangerous God (Bible, biblical violence, hermeneutics, moral intuitions)
March 3 - Strawmanning Atheists? An Interview (interview, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, steelmanning, strawmanning)
March 1 - A Wide Ranging Theological Discussion (interview, theology)
February 28 - How to Respond to Bad Arguments on Social Media: A Test Case (bad arguments, social media, ukraine)
February 26 - Explaining the Concept of Atheistic Fundamentalism (atheism, fundamentalism)
February 25 - On New Atheist Apologist John Loftus (Catholic Christianity, interview, John Loftus)
February 19 - If You Call a Natural Event a Miracle is that “God of the Gaps”? (God of the gaps, miracle, providence)
February 15 - Jesus and Genocide: The Reluctant Theologian Podcast Interview (interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
February 10 - Did Jesus Lack Empathy? (christology, incarnation, Jesus)
February 10 - An Interview on Epistemic Foundationalism (epistemology, externalism, foundationalism, interview, moderate foundationalism)
February 8 - On Bad Arguments Against Universalism (interview, universalism)
February 6 - Hopeful Universalism: An Interview (hopeful universalism, interview)
February 2 - The Danger of the Secular Ideologue (secularism)
January 27 - How to be 100% Christian When You’re Only 50% Sure it is True
January 25 - Reflecting on the Nature of Hell in a Bathroom Warning Sign (apologetics, hell, theology)
January 24 - An Interview with Canadian Catholic (apologetics, Canadian Catholic, interview)
January 23 - Why It is OK for a Christian Apologist to have Doubts: A Response to James White (apologetics, certainty, doubt, epistemology, James White)
January 21 - Hell: A Christian and Atheist Discuss the Doctrine of Divine Judgment (Ben Watkins, eschatology, hell, Real Atheology)
January 21 - Your Moral Character Resides Not Simply In What You’ve Done But In Who You Are (counterfactuals, morality, virtue ethics)
January 18 - Seven Things I Wish Every Christian Knew About the Bible: A Review (biblical violence, book review, hermeneutics, Michael Bird, review)
January 13 - William Lane Craig’s Homophobia (homophobia, homosexuality, William Lane Craig)
January 11 - The Faith Today Review of Jesus Loves Canaanites: A Response
January 7 - My Debate With Aron Ra (Aron Ra, biblical violence, debate, epistemology)
January 6 - Grace is Not Unique to Christianity, Even if a C.S. Lewis Anecdote Claims that It Is. (C.S. Lewis, comparative religion, grace, soteriology, theology)
January 5 - You Can’t Save Biblical Inerrancy By Limiting it to Faith and Morals (inerrancy)
January 4 - Franklin Graham’s Disinformation is Costing Lives. Does Samaritan’s Purse Care? (COVID19, Franklin Graham)
January 3 - My Kennenth Copeland Argument Refutes Naturalism! (Kenneth Copeland, naturalism)
January 3 - I Preached a Hellfire and Brimstone Sermon … and I Was on Fire (hell, sermon)

2021

December 24 - Merry Christmas!
December 22 - Christmas, Virgin Mary, and the Problem of Child Brides (Conversations with My Inner Atheist, virgin birth, virgin conception)
December 20 - Rwanda and the Ethics of Canaanite Genocide: A Conversation (biblical violence, Canaan, ethics, interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites, Rwanda)
December 17 - On Meeting My Past Fundamentalist Self (fundamentalism)
December 14 - Are Evangelicals Pluralists? Evangelical Ministries and the Problem of Dubious Scare Surveys (evangelicalism, inclusivism, pluralism, Probe Ministries, scare survey)
December 11 - William Lane Craig Says God May Command Us to “Drive Out Canaanites” in Our Day. I Respond. (biblical violence, genocide, Jesus Loves Canaanites, William Lane Craig)
December 10 - The Fundamentalist Christian Creed (fundamentalism; creed)
December 3 - How Strident Pro-life Christians Harm Human Fetuses (abortion, dialogue, ethics)
December 1 - Is Jesus Loves Canaanites Guilty of Motivated Reasoning? (Jesus Loves Canaanites, motivated reasoning)
December 1 - How Christians Read Biblical Violence with Confirmation Bias (biblical violence, confirmation bias)
November 30 - Christmas Without Mosquitoes: Please Contribute to My Annual Fundraiser to Fight Malaria (Against Malaria Foundation, fundraiser)
November 28 - What if God is Dreadful? (biblical violence, hermeneutics, theodicy, theology)
November 24 - Does Heaven Lose Morally Significant Freedom? And is that a Problem? (free will, freedom, heaven)
November 23 - Agnosticism and Ignosticism: A Quick Word (agnosticism, ignosticism)
November 23 - When Jesus Exorcised Demons Was He Really Healing Epilepsy? (accommodation, christology, Conversations with My Inner Atheist, Jesus)
November 21 - Hellbound? Reflections on the Christian Doctrine of Damnation in Dialogue with the Korean Show (damnation, eschatology, hell, Hellbound?, judgment)
November 20 - A Review of Owen Strachan’s Debate Performance on Unbelievable (critical race theory, debate, Owen Strachan, Unbelievable, woke debate)
November 20 - How Should Christians Think About White Privilege? (equality, equity, justice, white privilege)
November 17 - What is the One Thing I Wish Was Not True About Christianity? And Other Questions Answered. (theology)
November 17 - How an Inerrant Bible Can Have Errors (biblical inspiration, inerrancy, inspiration)
November 16 - Jesus Loves Canaanites: A Discussion on Multifaith Matters (interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
November 5 - The Fonz in a White Jacket? I Think I Might Be Dreaming (epistemology, skepticism)
November 4 - Why Theology Doesn’t Make Contributions to Natural Science (dialogue, natural science, theology)
November 2 - Don’t Confuse Christ’s Sovereign Ability to Speak Truth in All Things with Pluralism
October 31 - 9.5 Theses for Christian Apologetics on Reformation Day (apologetics)
October 25 - Would Jesus have endorsed gay marriage? (biblical ethics, ethics, gay marriage, hermeneutics, homosexuality)
October 20 - Should a Christian use the Name and Preferred Pronouns of a Trans-Gender Person? (hospitality, transgender)
October 20 - God the Liar (epistemology, God, lying)
October 19 - Do Lacktheists have a Burden of Proof? (agnosticism, burden of proof, epistemology, lacktheism)
October 18 - One Day Sale: Jesus Loves Canaanites
October 14 - How Biblical Divinely Commanded Genocide Undermines Moral Knowledge (biblical violence, Jesus Loves Canaanites, moral epistemology, moral knowledge, skepticism)
October 12 - Prolife Christians Who Support Child Killing (abortion, biblical violence, genocide, infanticide, Jesus Loves Canaanites, moral epistemology, moral knowledge)
October 10 - Quick Replies to William Lane Craig’s Bad Talking Points on the Canaanite Genocide (biblical violence, Canaanites, genocide, William Lane Craig)
October 9 - How Getting Beaten Up Taught Me an Important Life Lesson
October 5 - Why Christian Fundamentalism Is Not Your Father’s Orthodoxy (fundamentalism, orthodoxy)
October 5 - A Brief Defense of Blind Faith (blind faith, epistemology, faith, rationality)
October 4 - A Snapshot of Humanity: On the Existential Experience of Reading Old Postcards (existentialism, postcard)
September 30 - The World Will Know His Name: A Devotional Reflection for Truth and Reconciliation Day (devotional, Truth and Reconciliation)
September 28 - Fundamentalist Bible Reading and Literally False Descriptions of God (Bible, biblical violence, fundamentalism, hermeneutics)
September 27 - Did God Command the Slaughter of the Canaanites? A Debate (biblical violence, Canaanites, debate, genociide)
September 23 - Jesus and Sodom and Gomorrah (biblical violence, eschatology, Jesus, judgment)
September 22 - A Nail in the Head for Devotions
September 20 - The Incredibly Dark World of Fundagelical Christianity (evangelicalism, fundagelicalism, fundamentalism)
September 19 - Judge Caprio and the Divine Judge
September 17 - The Fallacies of Conservative Christian Apologetics (apologetics, evangelicalism)
September 17 - On the Rotten Spiritual Fruit of Genocide Apologetics (biblical violence, genocide apologetics)
September 16 - The Problem with a High View of God
September 15 - The Extraordinary Evil of Dehumanizing Rhetoric Against the Canaanites (biblical violence, Canaanites, genocide)
September 15 - Jesus was a Great Philosopher (Jesus, philosopher, philosophy)
September 11 - God Allowing is Not the Same as God Commanding (biblical violence, moral evil, theodicy)
September 10 - The Gospel is a Big Enough Stumbling Block Without Christians Adding Their Own (stumbling blocks, theology)
September 9 - My Body, My Choice: On the Anti-Christian Logic of Christian Anti-Vaxxers (anti-vax, ethics)
September 6 - Why isn’t God Clearer? Dealing with Biblical Ambiguity (biblical hermeneutics, biblical violence, hermenutics, interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
September 4 - On Sexual Predators and ‘Young Adulterous Whores’ (abuse, ChurchToo, John Crist, MeToo)
September 3 - ABBA Resurrection? A Reflection on Mortality (ABBA, hope, mortality, resurrection)
September 1 - Who Would Jesus Insult? (holiness, invective, Jesus, rhetoric)
August 30 - Why I Am Off Twitter (social media, twitter)
August 28 - We Struck Them With Axes: On ISIS and the Bible (biblical violence)
August 27 - Rethinking the History of the Canaanite Genocide: What Do You Have To Lose? (biblical violence, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
August 26 - The Sin of Empathy and Sexual Ethics (empathy, homosexuality, James White, sin)
August 23 - Reviewing the 1 Star Reviews of Jesus Loves Canaanites (Jesus Loves Canaanites)
August 21 - Eight Problems of Biblical Violence in Three Minutes (biblical violence)
August 18 - An Interview on Canaanites and Epistemology (interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
August 17 - i feel like dying: A Conversation on Depression (depression, Rick Rauser)
August 13 - Being a Christian is not the Same Thing as Being Saved
August 12 - A Simple Illustration of the Crazy Priorities of Fundamentalist Christian Apologetics
August 12 - Drunkards, Sin, and God’s Kingdom: A Reappraisal (alcohol, alcoholism, sin)
August 9 - The Unmaking of Patriarchy: A Review of The Making of Biblical Womanhood (Beth Allison Barr, egalitarianism, patriarchy, review, The Making of Biblical Womanhood)
August 8 - Why Christians Should Accept that Jesus Had False Beliefs (christology, Jesus, mind)
August 7 - The Most Reprehensible Genocide Apologetics Talking Point Of All (biblical violence, canaanite genocide, Frank Turek, genocide apologetics)
August 5 - The Shocking Violence of Greg Boyd’s “Non-Violent” God (biblical violence, Greg Boyd, The Crucifixion of the Warrior God)
August 3 - William Lane Craig’s Failed Defense of the Canaanite Conquest (biblical violence, canaanite genocide, William Lane Craig)
July 31 - Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan Don’t Want to Debate Me. But if They Did, I’d Ask Them This (biblical violence, Did God really command Genocide?, Jesus Loves Canaanites, Matthew Flannagan, Paul Copan)
July 29 - Interpreting Scripture in Light of Our Moral Intuitions (biblical violence, interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
July 27 - Christian Terrorists and No True Scotsmen
July 26 - How Professional Wrestling can Help Us Understand the Bible (Bible, fundamentalism, hermeneutics, professional wrestling)
July 22 - Strawmanning Atheists: A Critique of Frank Turek (apologetics, Frank Turek, Rebellion Thesis, strawman)
July 18 - William Lane Craig Says He Doesn’t Support Donald Trump. Don’t Believe It (Donald Trump, William Lane Craig)
July 16 - Discussing Biblical Violence on Conservative Talk Radio (Bob Dutko, interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
July 14 - William Lane Craig Responds to My Modest Critique of Reasonable Faith
July 14 - Does Christianity Need a Historical Adam? (fall, historical Adam, orthodoxy)
July 13 - Biblical Violence is Still Violence … and is not Appropriate for All Ages (Bible, biblical violence)
July 12 - An Open Letter to Lee Strobel and Sean McDowell (Alisa Childers, Lee Strobel, Sean McDowell)
July 11 - According to Alisa Childers, People Like Me Are Going to Hell: A Review of Another Gospel? (Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?, review)
July 7 - Counter Apologist Round 2: The Epistemology Discussion (Counter Apologist, epistemology, rationality)
July 6 - On the Holy Piety of Getting Angry with God (anger, God, piety)
July 1 - RZIM, as Shameless as Ever, Engages in Public Relations Disaster Management (Ravi Zacharias, RZIM, Sarah Davis)
June 28 - Biblical Violence and Epistemology: A Conversation with Counter Apologist (biblical violence, Counter Apologist, epistemology, hermeneutics)
June 28 - On Transgender Athletes (athletics, transgender)
June 28 - Writing Infectious Books (book writing)
June 27 - Could God Command You to Rape and Cannibalize? If not, Why Think He Could Command You to Slaughter? (accommodation, biblical violence, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
June 22 - Does the Bible include Evil Moral Teaching? (biblical violence, stoning, torah)
June 20 - The Treatment of the Canaanites is Unique and Unrepeatable? Rebutting a Popular Genocide Apologetic (apologetics, biblical violence, genocide)
June 19 - Welcome to my new podcast! (podcast)
June 18 - Jesus Dwells Within You Really But Not Literally (metaphor, theology)
June 13 - Looking to Disagree: The Problem of Pugilistic Evangelicals (dialogue, evangelicalism, truth)
June 11 - Atheists “Stealing” From God And Other Apologetic Mistakes (apologetics, Frank Turek)
June 9 - The Bible, Divinely Commanded Violence, and Inspiration: My Opening Statement (Bible, biblical violence, debate, hermeneutics, Jesus Loves Canaanites, John Loftus)
June 2 - Frank Turek on the Slaughter of the Canaanites. And My Response. (apologetics, Canaanites, Frank Turek, genocide)
June 2 - Canaanites, Hell, Demons: The S.J. Thomason Interview (interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
June 1 - The Fundamentalist Atheist as Frankenstein’s Monster (atheism, fundamentalism, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
May 31 - Am I a Marcionite? And Other Questions with Spartan Theology (interview Jesus Loves Canaanites)
May 31 - Providence, the Problem of Evil, and the Eye of the Tiger
May 29 - Randal Rauser, Conservative Cultural Warrior (fundagelicalism, fundamentalism)
May 27 - Jesus, Canaanites, and a Conversation with Stephen Bedard (interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
May 26 - The Damned as Freemen on the Land (eschatology, hell, justice)
May 24 - The Early Reviews of Jesus Loves Canaanites (Jesus Loves Canaanites, review)
May 24 - A Brief Word on Apologetics, Debate, and Mental Illness (apologetics, mental illness)
May 24 - My Conversation with a Christian Fundamentalist on Biblical Violence (interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
May 22 - Killing the Children of Jericho: How Paul Copan Avoids the Question (apologetics, biblical violence, hermeneutics, Jericho, Paul Copan)
May 22 - Biblical Violence Interview on The Curious John Podcast (interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
May 20 - The Most Common Early Objection to Jesus Loves Canaanites (And it’s not Good) (biblical violence, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
May 19 - Discussing Jesus and the Canaanites with Pinecreek Doug (Jesus Loves Canaanites, Pinecreek Doug)
May 18 - God and Genocide: An Interview with Critical Witness (genocide, interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
May 18 - From Ancient Israel to Boko Haram: On the problem with defending human rights atrocities (biblical violence, hermeneutics)
May 18 - Jesus and the Canaanites (biblical violence, interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
May 17 - Why the Logic of the Canaanite Genocide is Fundamentally Flawed (biblical violence, ethics, hermeneutics, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
May 16 - So You Want to Publish a Book? Thoughts from a Seasoned Author (publishing)
May 14 - The Bible and Genocide: The Adherent Apologetics Interview (biblical violence, genocide, interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
May 8 - Deconstructing a Frank Turek Tweet (Frank Turek, Rebellion Thesis)
May 7 - Why don’t we take ‘mere Christianity’ seriously? (mere Christianity)
May 5 - The Ten Worst Defenses of the Canaanite Genocide (apologetics, biblical violence, hermeneutics, Jesus Loves Canaanites)
May 4 - God of Genocide? My Debate with John Loftus (apologetics, biblical violence, debate, genocide, John Loftus)
April 30 - Why I don’t Recommend William Lane Craig for Church Apologetics (apologetics, William Lane Craig)
April 28 - Canadian Primal: A Review (Canadian Primal, literary criticism, Mark Dickinson, Poetry, review)
April 24 - Genocide In The Bible? An Interview with Non-Alchemist (biblical violence, interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites, Non-Alchemist)
April 22 - Driving Out the Canaanites? On a failed attempt to re-brand biblical genocide (biblical violence, genocide, Jesus Loves Canaanites, Just War Interpreters)
April 21 - What if Jesus Loves Canaanites? (biblical violence, Jesus Loves Canaaanites)
April 18 - Jesus Loves Canaanites is Now Available in Paperback (Jesus Loves Canaanites)
April 17 - Euthanasia in Canada: A Panel Discussion (bioethics, euthanasia, interview, medical ethics, palliative care)
April 15 - A Conversation on Christian Views of the Afterlife with Apostate Prophet (afterlife, Apostate Prophet, debate, eschatology, heaven, hell)
April 8 - The Cover of Jesus Loves Canaanites
April 8 - Preach it! On Religious Conversions to Atheism (atheism, conversion, John Loftus)
April 6 - Help Choose the Cover for My New Book (Jesus Loves Canaanites)
April 6 - 99 Cent Conversations with Your Inner Atheist?!
April 5 - Does Atheism Inspire You? A Reflection on Last Chance U (atheism, Christianity, Last Chance U)
April 3 - An Interview with Beyond Belief (interview)
March 31 - Coming to Terms with Mystery: A Brief Reflection on Cognitive Closure (cognitive closure, epistemic humility)
March 31 - Will Truth Win Out? My Interview with “When Belief Dies” (apologetics, Christianity, interview, podcast, truth, When Belief Dies)
March 29 - Christianity Vindicated?: A Review of The Rational Faith Part 2 (apologetics, Christianity, Jason Crook, review, The Rational Faith)
March 20 - The Decline into Secularism Reconsidered: A Review of The Rational Faith Part 1 (apologetics, Jason Crook, review, The Rational Faith)
March 15 - Before You Make Fun of the Church Sign, Try Interpreting it Charitably (church sign, faith, fundamentalism, rationality, trust)
March 11 - Can You Be Gay and Christian?
March 7 - Conversations with My Inner Atheist in Faith Today (Conversations with My Inner Atheist)
February 26 - Is Sex Reassignment Surgery Genital Mutilation? (ethics, LGBT, transgender)
February 22 - A Wide-Ranging Interview on Christianity, Culture, Politics, Etc. (apologetics, interview)
February 16 - Becoming Catholic: An Interview with Catholic Apologist Jimmy Akin (apologetics, Catholic Answers, Catholicism, Jimmy Akin)
February 15 - A Conversation on Atheism Etc. with Caffeine Corner (agnosticism, atheism, interview, new atheism)
February 14 - Predators in the Church An Investigator Speaks on the Ravi Zacharias Case (Bob Stenhouse, investigation, predator, Ravi Zacharias, Veritas Solutions)
February 11 - C.S. Lewis Warned that Apologetics is Dangerous. Was he Right? (apologetics, C.S. Lewis)
February 9 - Why Reason Always Requires Faith: Explained in 6 Minutes (faith, reason)
February 4 - The Laws of Thought: Critical Thinking with Stephen Law (critical thinking, Stephen Law)
January 31 - Is Craig’s Moral Argument Defensible? (apologetics, moral argument, platonism, William Lane Craig)
January 26 - An Update on My Biblical Genocide Book (biblical violence, book)
January 16 - My Biblical Violence Book: A Quick Update (biblical violence)
January 13 - Anecdotes vs. Testimony (anecdote, testimony)
January 12 - An Interview with Elephant Philosophy (apologetics, Elephant Philosophy, interview, philosophy)
January 7 - The Problem of Evil: My Friendly Debate with Alex Malpass (Alex Malpass, atheism, debate, problem of evil, theism, theodicy)
January 6 - Atheism and Antitheism (antitheism, atheism)
January 3 - Is the problem of evil less of a problem if evil is not a thing? (problem of evil, theodicy)
January 2 - Steelmanning Run Amok (charitable interpretation fallacy, fallacy, steelmanning)

2020

December 29 - Militant Agnosticism (agnosticism, Michael Shermer)
December 28 - Before You Accuse Somebody of the Strawman Fallacy (informal logic, strawman)
December 27 - My New Biblical Violence Book (biblical violence)
December 25 - The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Christmas, Faith lacking understanding, incarnation)
December 22 - Is the Christian God Worthy of Worship? A Debate with Dan Barker (atheism, biblical violence, Dan Barker)
December 21 - Atheist Polemic for Pastor Dan: A Review of God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction (biblical violence, Dan Barker, new atheism, review)
December 19 - Atheism and Secularism (atheism, secularism)
December 16 - If You Defend Ravi Zacharias and Hucksters Like Him, You are Part of the Problem (predator, Ravi Zacharias, sexual predator, truth)
December 14 - How Not to Read the Bible: Lessons from Footloose (Bible, Footloose, hermeneutics, prooftexting)
December 12 - The Awfulness of Franklin Graham in a Single Tweet (Donald Trump, evangelicalism, Franklin Graham, hypocrisy)
December 11 - Atheists and Free-Thinkers: Are they the same thing?
December 10 - Is the Christian God Worthy of Worship? (atheism, biblical ethics, biblical hermeneutics, Dan Barker, debate, new atheism)
December 8 - One of the most outrageous things a Christian apologist ever said (atheism, Greg Koukl, prooftexting)
December 7 - Are evangelicals people of truth? Maybe not. (discipleship, evangelicalism, truth)
December 5 - What is sin? (hamartiology, original sin, sin)
December 4 - Do atheists worship science? (atheism, science, scientism)
December 2 - One of the most profound statements I ever heard on race and racism came from a game show host (race, racism, Richard Dawson)
December 1 - Canadian Christians & Skeptics vs. American Christians & Skeptics: My Annual Anti-Malaria Fundraiser! (Against Malaria Foundation, fundraiser)
November 28 - Atheism and Materialism: Are They the Same Thing? (atheism, materialism)
November 25 - Is There a Link Between Atheism and Skepticism? (atheism, rationality, skepticism)
November 23 - Friendly Dialogue with Atheists: A Podcast Interview (apologetics, conversation, interview)
November 23 - Top-Flight Philosophy of Religion For Free! (John Schellenberg, philosophy of religion)
November 22 - Did I experience demonic oppression? A critical reflection (demonic oppression, sleep paralysis)
November 21 - Why a meaningful life is not the same thing as a life that does (or does not) go on forever (afterlife, atheism, Christianity, meaning)
November 20 - Christians vs. Skeptics: The Ultimate Charitable Competition (Against Malaria Foundation, fundraiser)
November 18 - Finding the Devil in Rock and Roll … Backwards (devil, fundamentalism, Rock and roll, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
November 15 - On this sad little quip: “When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” (new atheism, Stephen Roberts)
November 11 - My Trent Horn Interview
November 6 - If the Bible includes immoral laws, how can it be inspired? (Bible, bibliology, hermeneutics, inspiration)
November 5 - Conversations with Inner Atheists: An Interview (Conversations with My Inner Atheist, interview)
November 2 - Are there sufficient reasons to believe in God? My Opening Statement (epistemology, foundationalism, properly basic, rationality, theism)
November 1 - The Long and Winding Road: My Dad’s Alzheimer’s in 32 Tweets (Alzheimer's Disease, dementia)
October 30 - The Cruel Trick: A Lament for Halloween Lost (COVID19, Halloween, lament)
October 29 - The Crusading Against Ignorance Interview (Conversations with My Inner Atheist, interview)
October 28 - Can you be saved if you don’t believe God raised Jesus from the dead? (resurrection, salvation)
October 23 - The Limits of Steelmanning (steelmanning, strawmanning)
October 20 - The Ultimate Book Deal: My Latest Book for 99 Cents!
October 19 - Three Essential Elements of Every Christian Apologetic (apologetics)
October 14 - Should you have a conversation with your inner atheist? (Conversations with My Inner Atheist, doubt)
October 14 - Why would God let rapists and murderers into heaven? (grace, heaven, repentance, salvation)
October 14 - God’s Call: A Response from Jeff Kilmartin (God Calling, Jeff Kilmartin)
October 12 - How Do You Hear God’s Voice? A Review of God Calling: Spiritual Direction for People in the Real World (Jeffrey Kilmartin, review, spiritual direction, theology)
October 11 - A Succinct Statement of Atheist Self-Defeat
October 10 - The Problem with the Offering of Isaac (biblical violence, ethics, hermeneutics)
October 8 - Being Prolife is Not the Same Thing as Being Anti-Abortion (abortion, ethics, prolife)
October 7 - The Fact that You Were Once a Christian Does not Make Your Atheism More Rational (atheism, rationality)
October 6 - Atheists having conversations with their inner Christian (atheism, doubt)
October 5 - A Skeptic has a Conversation with His Inner Christian (atheism, historiography, Matthew Hartke, methodological naturalism, naturalism, resurrection)
October 5 - Conversations with the Graceful Atheist (Conversations with My Inner Atheist, interview, The Graceful Atheist Podcast)
October 4 - Skeptics, Seekers, and My Inner Atheist (interview, Skeptics and Seekers Podcast)
October 2 - 7 Steps to Build Christian Communities that Don’t Lose the Young (Christian community, discipleship)
September 29 - Transgender Children and the Ethics of Therapeutic Treatment (LGBT, transgender)
September 28 - How Christians engage in special pleading when they try to justify bad biblical behavior (Bible, biblical ethics, ethics, hermeneutics, moral inerrancy principle)
September 24 - Does God command genocide in the Bible? (Charlie Trimm, genocide, Sean McDowell)
September 23 - Why do some agnostics call themselves atheists? And should we care? (agnosticism, atheism)
September 21 - Should Apologists Get Rich Defending the Christian Faith, or is that a bad Apologetic? (apologetics, credibility, prosperity Gospel)
September 19 - A Wide-Ranging Interview with the Non-Alchemist (apologetics, Donald Trump, fundamentalism, hermeneutics, interview, theology)
September 19 - If Ravi Zacharias engaged in immoral conduct, does that invalidate his ministry? (Ravi Zacharias)
September 18 - Why does theology adapt to science but science doesn’t adapt to theology? (science, theology)
September 16 - A Statement From Rick Manafo, former Programming Director for RZIM in Canada (Ravi Zacharias, RZIM)
September 16 - The Ways of the Progressive Philosopher: A Conversation with J.L. Schellenberg (atheism, interview, J.L. Schellenberg, philosophy, philosophy of religion)
September 15 - Resurrection and History: A Conversation with Counter-Apologist (Counter Apologist, historiography, history, methodological naturalism, resurrection)
September 15 - Whatever Happened to the Bereans? My Response to Ravi Zacharias Defenders (allegations, Ravi Zacharias)
September 15 - Hey, Liberal Christian Scholars have Biases Too (bias, Bible, Karen King)
September 13 - The Ravi Zacharias Sex Scandal: A New Personal Statement (Ravi Zacharias, scandal)
September 10 - How can the God of the Philosophers be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? (Conversations with My Inner Atheist)
September 10 - How can reasonable people of good will continue to support Donald Trump? (Donald Trump, escalation of commitment)
September 8 - New Allegations that Ravi Zacharias engaged in Sexually Predatory Behavior (Ravi Zacharias, Steve Baughman)
September 8 - Can Stryper be heavy metal if they are Christian? (Christian music, Christianity, heavy metal, Stryper)
September 7 - Intellectual Humility as Apologetics (apologetics, Colin Burgess, guest post)
September 4 - Stephen Bedard has a Conversation with Me and My Inner Atheist (Conversations with My Inner Atheist, interview, Stephen Bedard)
September 2 - Methodological Naturalism as a Wet Firecracker: A Response to Ian N. Mills (historiography, history, methodological naturalism, naturalism)
September 2 - A Miracle isn’t a Violation of the Laws of Nature, so What is It? (miracle, providence)
September 1 - Can a Historian Accept that God Raised Jesus from the Dead on Historical Grounds? (historiography, history, methodological naturalism, resurrection of Jesus)
September 1 - A Quick Guest Appearance on Skeptics and Seekers Podcast (Conversations with My Inner Atheist, ethics, interview, Skeptics and Seekers Podcast)
August 31 - Reading What the Bible Says About Dogs to My Dog (Bible, dogs, hermeneutics)
August 31 - A Quick Response to Atheists Who Claim that They Don’t Have a Burden of Proof (atheism, burden of proof)
August 30 - What is the Flying Spaghetti Monster (and why should I care)? (apologetics, Flying Spaghetti Monster, plausibility structure, skepticism, worldview)
August 29 - Dogma Debated: A Conversation with David C. Smalley (apologetics, Conversations with My Inner Atheist, David C. Smalley, history, interview, resurrection)
August 28 - Christians, don’t let heresy hunters scare you from asking hard questions (heresy hunting, orthodoxy)
August 28 - The First Amazon.com Review of My New Book. And It’s a Good One!
August 28 - A Conversation on Conversations with My Inner Atheist (Conversations with My Inner Atheist, interview)
August 27 - Why Jesus Mythicism is a Conspiracy Theory (apologetic, conspiracy theory, Jesus, Mythicism)
August 26 - Debating the Resurrection of Jesus with the Godless Engineer (debate, Godless Engineer, historical Jesus, resurrection)
August 25 - Biblical Violence, Donald Trump, Morality, and Ten Other Things: My Interview with Purple Pill Philosophy (apologetics, interview, philosophy, theology)
August 24 - Is Bart Ehrman a Spiritual Terrorist? (Bart Ehrman, dialogue, rhetoric)
August 23 - An Atheist Review of Conversations with My Inner Atheist (Conversations with My Inner Atheist, review)
August 22 - Conversations with My Inner Atheist (apologetics, atheism, Conversations with My Inner Atheist, theology)
August 20 - The Absurdity of Jesus Mythicism in Five Minutes (atheism, conspiracy theory, Jesus Mythicism)
August 20 - Are Biblical Scholars Constrained by the Doctrinal Statements? (academic freedom, historical Jesus, scholarship)
August 18 - My New Book is Now Available on Kindle!
August 18 - Who is Irrational? Some Quick Observations on the Rauser-Smalley Debate (apologetics, David C. Smalley, debate, epistemology, rationality)
August 18 - My Debate with David Smalley on the Rationality of Christianity (Christianity, David Smalley, debate, epistemology, Modern Day Debate, rationality)
August 17 - Biblical Violence and the Problem of Evil: A Conversation (apologetics, biblical violence, hermeneutics, problem of evil)
August 16 - Conversations with My Inner Atheist is now Available! (Conversations with My Inner Atheist)
August 16 - You are a believer (skepticism, worldview)
August 13 - Do Atheists Hate God? (atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Rebellion Thesis)
August 10 - Five Signs that You Were Raised Fundagelical (evangelicalism, fundagelicalism, fundamentalism, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
August 8 - Five Signs that Atheist You’re Talking to is Not Serious (apologetics, atheism)
August 7 - Is General Revelation All You Need? (general revelation, revelation, special revelation)
August 6 - The Four Saddest Words I Hear as a Christian Apologist (apologetics, mere Christianity, theology)
August 3 - A Special Promotional Sale for What’s So Confusing About Grace? (Kindle, promotion, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
August 3 - Debating David Smalley on the Rationality of Christianity (apologetics, Christianity, David Smalley, epistemology, rationality)
August 1 - Talking with Randal Rauser on Apologetics (and Theology, and Epistemology, and…) (apologetics, interview, theology)
July 30 - The Cover of My Next Book Is Here
July 29 - Should We Ditch Netflix over Radical Transgender Ideology? (James Anderson, Netflix, transgender)
July 27 - Avoid the Futility and Hubris of the Uninformed Apologist (apologetics, education)
July 25 - Everyday Apologetics: A Review (apologetics, Everyday Apologetics, review)
July 23 - Church Doctrine & the Bible: A Review (Bible, biblical theology, David Instone-Brewer, review, theology)
July 22 - I need your help for my next book (new book)
July 19 - Is Rationality Over-Rated? (epistemology, justification, rationality, Richard Jewell, virtue epistemology)
July 18 - Don’t Miss This Debate on Theological Method (apologetic method, debate, James White, Jonathan McLatchie, Richard Howe)
July 14 - Debating Against God’s Existence: The Devil’s in the Details (atheism, debate, devil's advocate, Joe Schmid, theism)
July 11 - Is the Christian God an All-Good and Loving God? A Debate (apologetics, biblical violence, debate, hermeneutics, problem of evil)
July 8 - Is Jesus Human and Not Divine? A Review (Chris Date, christology, Dale Tuggy, debate, incarnation, review, theology)
July 7 - Can You Preach it at the Gates of Auschwitz? (divine providence, meticulous providence, pastoral theology, preaching, providence, theodicy)
July 4 - What would it take for you to give up your faith? (And is that a good question?) (certainty, epistemology, fallibilism, knowledge)
July 3 - Religion After God: A Review of Progressive Atheism (atheism, J.L. Schellenberg, naturalism, Progressive Atheism)
July 2 - When atheists compare God to Santa Claus, leprechauns, and flying spaghetti monsters (Flying Spaghetti Monster, new atheism, parody, Santa Claus, satire, village atheism)
July 1 - Should we believe William Lane Craig’s advice on doubt? (defeater, doubt, epistemology, faith, undercutting defeater, William Lane Craig)
June 27 - Is God a Necessary Being? (God, necessity, perfect being, perfect being theology)
June 20 - Theology, Worldview, and the Death of My Father (Alzheimer's Disease, death, problem of evil, suffering, theology, worldview)
June 18 - Randal And Samuel Nesan Debrief Our Debate With Tom Jump and Matt Dillahunty (apologetics, debate, debate review, Matt Dillahunty, Samuel Nesan, Tom Jump)
June 16 - Hucksters, Heretics, Hypocrites … and Tim Challies (heresy, heresy hunting, predation, predator, Tim Challies)
June 16 - If I Were God: Purgatory and the Online Book Reviewer (book reviewing, ethics)
June 16 - The US Supreme Court Decision on LGBT Civil Rights Meets Mere Christianity (gay, LGBT, mere Christianity, transgender, US Supreme Court)
June 15 - Is it wrong to mock Trump? (Donald Trump, ethics, mockery, sarcasm, satire)
June 14 - If you’re a theist, how would you defend atheism? If you’re an atheist, how would you defend theism? (Ben Watkins, debate, devil's advocate, Dry Apologist, Real Atheology)
June 12 - Morals, God, and Other Absolutes (Eric Murphy, ethics, interview, metaethics, moral relativism, morality)
June 10 - Is Morality Objective or Subjective? A Debate (ethics, Modern Day Debate, moral objectivism, moral relativism, morality)
June 9 - Why Theology is Not Simply Listing Bible Verses (doctrine, systematic theology, theological method, theology)
June 8 - Steve Hays Regularly Attacked Me. Here are My Thoughts on His Passing (eulogy, Steve Hays)
June 7 - Why I Don’t Talk About the Sensus Divinitatis When I Talk About Belief in God (Alvin Plantinga, apologetics, debate, epistemology, foundationalism, sensus divinitatis)
June 6 - Are there sufficient reasons to believe in God? A Debate (debate, epistemology, Matt Dillahunty, Modern Day Debate, rationality, theism, Tom Jump)
June 4 - 21 Points Illustrating a Pattern of Fascist Behavior in Donald Trump (Donald Trump, fascism)
June 3 - Alisa Childers, “Historic Christianity,” and the Atonement (Alisa Childers, atonement, kerygma, mere Christianity, penal substitution)
May 31 - Four Levels of Doubt (doubt, faith)
May 30 - Does Being a Christian Mean Giving Up on Evidence? (apologetics, epistemology, evidence, faith, rationality, sermon)
May 30 - Why Pinecreek Doug’s Flying Man Can’t Get Off the Ground (epistemology, historical Jesus, Pinecreek Doug, resurrection)
May 29 - Is Morality Objective or Subjective? (Eric Murphy, ethical objectivism, ethics, interview, moral objectivism, morality)
May 29 - The Jesus Creed Meets the Flying Man Creed (historical Jesus, Pinecreek Doug, reductio ad absurdum, resurrection, slippery slope)
May 29 - I could never worship a God who… (antitheism, God, worship)
May 28 - Is it Okay for Pastors to Have Doubts? A Footnote (doubt, faith, John the Baptist)
May 27 - What is ‘Progressive Christianity’ and why does Alisia Childers think it’s so dangerous?
May 26 - COVID-19 and God’s Providence: An interview with my pastor (COVID-19, interview, natural evil, problem of evil, providence)
May 25 - Can a pastor have doubts? (Alisa Childers, discipleship, doubt, progressive Christianity)
May 23 - Ravi Zacharias on Homosexuality: A Critical Response (homosexuality, Ravi Zacharias)
May 23 - God, Morality, and Knowledge: A Conversation with Eric Murphy (epistemology, Eric Murphy, foundationalism, interview, moral argument, proper basicality)
May 21 - Is Progressive Christianity Worse Than Atheism? My Response to Alisa Childers (evangelicalism, fundamentalism, orthodoxy, theology)
May 20 - Heaven, Hell, and Much In-Between: An Interview (apologetics, eschatology, heaven, hell, interview, S.J. Thomason, theology)
May 20 - Some Quick Book Updates
May 19 - Hell, Annihilationism, and Eternal Conscious Torment: An Interview (Adherent Apologetics, annihilationism, apologetics, eternal conscious torment, hell)
May 17 - Arminians, Calvinists, Orthodoxy, and Mere Christianity (arminianism, Calvinism, dialogue, ecumenism, orthodoxy)
May 14 - On the Fallacies of the Theological Conservative (conservatism, fundamentalism, logical fallacies, Russell Moore, universalism)
May 14 - Quick Thought on Canaanite Genocide and the Brutalizing Effects of Violence (biblical ethics, biblical violence, canaanite genocide, Canaanites, ethics)
May 13 - Christians, Atheists, and Coronavirus (coronavirus, fundraising)
May 13 - Methodological Naturalism is BAD Historical Method (historiography, history, methodological naturalism)
May 13 - Is it ethical for a Christian to insult Donald Trump? (Donald Trump, ethics, insult)
May 12 - Should Christians defend parental honor killing? Many already do. (biblical ethics, honor killing, stoning, torah)
May 10 - The Resurrection of Jesus as a Historical Miracle (1 Corinthians, apologetics, history, miracle, resurrection)
May 9 - Can God Command Anything At All? (biblical violence, ethics, hermeneutics)
May 8 - Having once been a Christian doesn’t mean you understand Christianity (atheism, Christianity)
May 5 - “Religion Flies Planes into Buildings.” And My Response. (apologetics, new atheism, religion, rhetoric)
May 3 - God and the Invisible Gardener of Naturalism
May 2 - The Ad Hominem Fallacy and Legitimate Critiques of the Person (ad hominem, logical fallacy)
May 2 - Debating the Existence of God: The good, the bad, and the ugly (apologetics, debates)
April 30 - Sean McDowell’s 5 Reasons the Bible is True: A Response (apologetics, Bible, Sean McDowell)
April 28 - If Naturalism Functions as a Religion, Does it Follow that Naturalism is a Religion? (naturalism, religion)
April 26 - Knock the Little Bastards’ Brains Out: C.S. Lewis and the Cursing Psalms (C.S. Lewis, hermeneutics, psalms)
April 26 - Advice on Starting an Apologetics Group at Your Church (apologetics, church)
April 24 - Atheism is not Agnosticism (atheism agnosticism)
April 24 - Actually, God Can: A Response to Thomas Jay Oord (Part 1) (problem of evil, providence, theodicy, Thomas Jay Oord)
April 22 - If God commanded you to sacrifice your child, would you? Here’s my response (biblical ethics, biblical violence, divine command ethics, ethics)
April 18 - A Quick Word on the Total Evidence for Theism (epistemic humility, evidence, theism)
April 18 - Should we hope that God has a reason for allowing evil? (problem of evil, providence, theodicy)
April 17 - The Questionable Comfort of Impotent Love: A Review of God Can’t (problem of evil, providence, review, Thomas Jay Oord)
April 15 - Is God punishing us with COVID-19? Here’s My Answer (COVID-19, divine providence, hermeneutics, natural evil, problem of evil)
April 14 - Raised to Die Again? And Other Fiery Debates (annihilationism, Chris Date, eschatology, hell, interview)
April 11 - Is the misery of hell self-imposed? (C.S. Lewis, eschatology, final judgment, hell)
April 10 - Dry Your Tears with Love: The Saddest Song for Good Friday (Good Friday, Tears, X Japan)
April 9 - Inspired Imperfection: A Review (biblical violence, Greg Boyd, hermeneutics, review)
April 7 - Are Christians Inconsistent for Rejecting Non-Christian Miracle Claims? (miracles, plausibility structure, rationality, skepticism, worldview)
April 6 - Responding to a Stale Atheist Talking Point on Miracle Claims (apologetics, miracles)
April 5 - Friend of Science, Friend of Faith: A Review (evolution, Gregg Davidson, intelligent design, review, science, young earth creationism)
April 3 - Further Down the Rabbit Hole: An Interview on Ravi Zacharias’ Confabulations (apologetics, Ravi Zacharias, Steve Baughman)
April 2 - What’s the biggest problem with annihilationism? (annihilationism, doctrine, hell)
April 1 - Should theological claims be judged by Popper’s Falsification Criterion? (epistemology, falsification, philosophy of science, theology)
March 30 - An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Feisty Secular Audience (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, apologetics, atheism, interview, Justin Schieber, secuarlism)
March 28 - A Short Word on Good Arguments (argument, persuasion, rhetoric)
March 26 - Don’t Sacrifice Your Conscience to Defend Your Reading of the Bible (biblical ethics, biblical violence, ethics, moral intuition, moral perception)
March 21 - The Day Christopher Hitchens Beat Five Apologists with a Story (apologetics, narrative, storytelling)
March 19 - Christians, you are allowed to wrestle with the problem of biblical violence (biblical violence, hermeneutics)
March 17 - No True Christian. No True Muslim (charity, Islam, Muslim, religious dialogue, steelman)
March 17 - My Video Review of God’s Not Dead with Capturing Christianity ("God's not Dead", Capturing Christianity, review)
March 17 - My Coronavirus Post (coronavirus, ethics, virtue)
March 17 - What Does It Mean to be a Tentative Apologist? (apologetics, epistemic humility, Tentative Apologist)
March 15 - Antinatalism: A Rebuttal (antinatalism, Justin Brierley, Unbelievable)
March 12 - The extraordinary claim that Christianity is irrational (Christianity, epistemology, irrationality, rationality, Steven Tiger)
March 7 - Be Right Back: On the ethics of using technology to recreate the deceased for the grieving (ethics, grief, technology, virtual reality)
March 5 - Would it be deceptive if God created a young world with apparent age? (apparent age, Philip Gosse, young earth creationism)
February 29 - If Nobody Else Remembered The Beatles, Would You Think You Were Delusional? (ethics, review, Yesterday)
February 27 - A Look at Sam Harris and His Atheist Indoctrination (atheism, indoctrination, new atheism, Sam Harris)
February 25 - The Top Three Problems with William Lane Craig’s Apologetic (apologetics, evangelicalism, William Lane Craig)
February 22 - Christopher Hitchens’ Deepity (Christopher Hitchens, deepity, Hitchens's Razor)
February 19 - Are transgender women really women?
February 19 - Biblicism Run Amok (Albert Mohler, Bible, biblicism)
February 18 - Babies Aren’t Tapeworms and Real Feminists Don’t Revile Fetuses (abortion, bioethics, ethics, feminism)
February 17 - What do you mean “God can’t”? A response to the Peckham-Oord Debate (John Peckham, problem of evil, Process theism, theodicy, Thomas Jay Oord)
February 16 - Liar, Lunatic, or Lord. Or Legend, or … (apologetics, christology, Jesus, trilemma)
February 16 - Should you be able to say when you wouldn’t be a Christian in order to be a Christian? (atheism, Christianity, epistemology, falsification, skepticism)
February 15 - Atheists on the Bible (atheism, atheists, Bible, bibliology, theology)
February 14 - Is Love Just a Chemical Reaction? My Valentine’s Day Soliloquy (love, reductionism)
February 14 - Problems with the Bible that Aren’t Problems at All (apologetics, Bible, inspiration, revelation)
February 13 - The Enneagram: A window into the soul or a waste of time? (enneagram, guest post, Jay Medenwaldt, personality profile, psychology)
February 12 - Is Michael Brown a Bigoted Homophobe? You Decide. (Donald Trump, evangelicalism, hypocrisy, Michael Brown, Pete Buttigieg)
February 11 - The Catholic Communion Table is Closed to Protestants: Why? (ecumenism, Julien Hammond, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, sacraments)
February 10 - If Hypocrisy were an Olympic Sport, Evangelicals would get the Gold (bigotry, Donald Trump, homosexuality, homphobia, Michael Brown, Pete Buttigieg)
February 9 - The Confused Paradox of Omnipotence (confusion, omnipotence, paradox)
February 8 - Is Franklin Graham a bigot or a victim? (bigotry, Franklin Graham, free speech, gay marriage, homosexuality, LGBT)
February 8 - What caused God? What floats my boat? (contingency, God, necessity)
February 7 - Does Open Theism Have an Advantage in Explaining Evil? (open theism, problem of evil)
February 4 - Muslims and Christians Pray to the Same God (Christianity, Islam, linguistic reference, pluralism)
February 3 - A Logically Valid But Unsound Argument for Biblical Inerrancy (Bible, inerrancy, inspiration)
February 2 - Being Religious Does Not Make You a Theist (atheism, religion, theism, Unitarian Universalism)
February 1 - “I believe because it is absurd”: On atheist abuse of Christian rhetoric (atheism, fideism, rhetoric, Tertullian)
January 31 - Apologetics and Moralism (apologetics, moralism)
January 31 - The Myth of the Authoritative Deconvert (conversion, deconversion, objectivity)
January 28 - The Cross and the Gun: Stephen Bedard on Military Chaplaincy (chaplaincy, ethics, just war, military, pacifism, pastoral theology, Stephen Bedard)
January 27 - If you’re going to say it is a sin for a woman to preach, you better be prepared to say more (Bible, complementarianism, egalitarianism, exegesis, gender equality, hermeneutics, sexism)
January 25 - May the 33,000 Be One: Debriefing a Catholic/Evangelical Dialogue (dialogue, ecclesiology, ecumenism, evangelicalism, Roman Catholic)
January 23 - On the Pseudo-Piety of Shutting Down Questioning By Asking Who Are You, O Man? (Christianity, fundamentalism, piety, questioning)
January 20 - My Monday Morning Rant Against Evangelicals Who Undermine the Bible (bibliology, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, Fuz Rana, hermeneutics, inspiration)
January 20 - On Evangelical Triumphalism (evangelicalism, mainline Protestantism)
January 19 - Blog Survey
January 17 - Secularists imposing their religion (atheism, secularism)
January 16 - Straining Theological Gnats (Biola, Clay Jones, confessional statement, dispensationalism, theology)
January 15 - Creating People and Universes: On reading premodern theologians in light of modern science (fundamentalism, hermeneutics, science, theology)
January 13 - Here’s a Thought: Why Don’t We Not Strawman Each Other? (atheism, Christianity, strawman)
January 13 - Should Christians engage in boycotts? (boycott, evangelicalism, interview, radio)
January 10 - Would you get on the plane? (decision theory, rationality, worldview)
January 9 - Being a Theist Does Not Make You Religious (atheism, religion, theism)
January 7 - Why Weak Atheism is Nonsense (atheism, soft atheism, weak atheism)
January 5 - On the Hard Sayings of Jesus (hard sayings of Jesus, Jesus)
January 4 - Is abortion a genocide? (abortion, bioethics, genocide, rhetoric)
January 4 - Christian and Atheist Fairyology (atheism, dialogue, fairyology, theism)
January 3 - Atheism is a Theology (atheism, ignosticism, theology)

2019

December 27 - Screwtaped: On the Misguided Christian Boycott of Netflix (boycott, Christianity, evangelicalism, protest)
December 24 - If We Make it Through the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Merry Christmas)
December 23 - A Quick Word of Thanks (fundraiser)
December 20 - Five reasons that Christians unnecessarily experience a crisis of faith (doctrine, evangelicalism)
December 18 - Jeff Wanted to Please God: The suspect salvation of the Milwaukee Cannibal (critical thinking, evangelism, Jeffrey Dahmer, psychopathy)
December 16 - The Most Cold-Hearted Son of a Bitch You’ll Ever Meet (James Dobson, psychopathy, Ted Bundy)
December 11 - Should Conservatives Protest LGBT Hallmark Movies? (culture war, ethics, fundamentalism, LGBT, popular culture, sexual ethics)
December 10 - How to Respond to Ken Ham in About a Minute (hermeneutics, Ken Ham, young earth creationism)
December 9 - Christians and Skeptics Can Change the World Together! Won’t You Join Us? (Against Malaria Foundation, donation, fundraiser)
December 7 - Is Theistic Evolution a Contradiction in Terms? A response to J. Warner Wallace (evolution, J. Warner Wallace, science, theistic evolution, theology)
December 4 - Rethinking Origins: The Evolution of a Young Earth Creationist (Answers in Genesis, creationism, David MacMillan, evolution, fundamentalism, interview, Ken Ham, Neo-Darwinism, science)
December 3 - Give a Little Bit: My Super-Duper Christian/Skeptic Anti-Malaria Fundraiser! (Against Malaria Foundation, effective altruism, ethics, fundraiser, fundraising)
December 1 - Everything Wrong with This Christian Worldview Chart (Christian worldview, worldview)
November 30 - Should we be certain of our beliefs? Or should we doubt? (certainty, Christianity, doubt, epistemology)
November 29 - Would you indoctrinate your child to save their soul? (education, indoctrination, soteriology)
November 28 - Eternal Conscious Torment and Modern Sentimentalism (eternal conscious torment, hell, theology)
November 27 - How (Not) to Read Like a Christian Fundamentalist (culture, fundamentalism, hermeneutics)
November 26 - According to Christianity, serial killers can be saved. Is that a reason to think that Christianity is false? (apologetics, forgiveness, salvation, serial killers, soteriology, theology)
November 25 - Do 33,000 Christian denominations present a reason to think Christianity is not true? (apologetics, Christian diversity, confusing revelation objection, defeater, revelation)
November 21 - What the Bible Says About Dogs (and why it matters) (Bible, dogs, hermeneutics, interpretation, theology)
November 20 - Blame the Victim: Conservative Christianity and a culture of shaming women (conservative Christianity, evangelicalism, patriarchy, shame)
November 17 - John Crist sinned, but did he also commit sexual assault? (John Crist, sexual assault)
November 15 - John Crist, you don’t get to ask your victims for forgiveness (forgiveness, John Crist, predator, sexual predator)
November 15 - The Top Three Worst Reasons to Reject Universalism (eschatology, salvation, soteriology, universalism)
November 14 - Hell and the Image of God: A Response to Scott Clifton (alienation, hell, Scott Clifton, suffering, Theoretical BS)
November 13 - If an atheist says they don’t think hell will be so bad, what do you say in reply? (apologetics, eschatology, hell, theology)
November 12 - Materialism and Consumerism: What’s the Difference? (consumerism, materialism)
November 10 - Why would God send people to hell? (apologetics, eschatology, hell, problem of evil, systematic theology, theology)
November 7 - Does God answer the prayers of nice rich people who want to purchase a new luxury? (ethics, God, prayer, providence, theology)
November 6 - Is the lack of consensus among Christian theologians a problem? (apologetics, atheism, philosophy, science, theology)
November 5 - What is Atheistic Indoctrination? A Short Lecture (atheism, fundamentalism, indoctrination)
November 3 - Open Our Eyes to the Saints in Our Midst (Christian ministry, Christian service, Helen Huston, Kingdom of God)
November 1 - Beyond the Anathema: A Catholic/Protestant Dialogue (Catholicism, dialogue, ecumenism, Protestantism)
October 30 - Fundamentalist Biblical Interpretation: A Critique (Bible, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, hermeneutics)
October 28 - Is the Lock Him Up Chant a decline in civility? (Donald Trump, public discourse, rhetoric)
October 27 - When conservative Christians confuse their interpretation of the Bible with the Bible (fundamentalism, hermeneutics, inerrancy, inspiration)
October 23 - The Imprecatory Pretzel: Why it doesn’t work to use the Psalms to curse your enemies (biblical inspiration, biblical violence, ethics, hermeneutics, imprecatory psalms)
October 22 - What’s Wrong with Young Earth Creationism? (Bible, fundamentalism, hermeneutics, science, young earth creationism)
October 19 - Why do conservative Christians diminish the scourge of sexual assault? (culture, ethics, evangelicalism, MeToo, misogyny, worldview)
October 18 - Join My Kiva Team Today! (ethics, Kiva, microlending)
October 18 - Do All Children Go to Heaven? On the age of accountability (age of accountability, salvation, soteriology, theology, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
October 14 - What’s wrong with the scientific study of morality? An interview with Paul Rezkalla (ethics, interview, metaethics, naturalism, Paul Rezkalla, philosophy of science, scientism)
October 12 - An Example of Self-Referential Defeat (epistemology, logic, self-referential defeat)
October 12 - Are young earth creationists the most faithful Bible readers? (debate, fundamentalism, hermeneutics, podcast, young earth creationism)
October 10 - Pepe Le Pew Stinks: The Sexual Violence of Looney Tunes in a #MeToo Age (culture, ethics, Pepe Le Pew, sexual violence, stalking)
October 8 - Your Media is Biased (media bias, presuppositions, worldview)
October 6 - Hamfisted Heresy Hunters (doctrine, heresy, heresy hunting, orthodoxy)
October 4 - My Quick Thoughts on the New Joker Movie (film, Joker)
September 29 - On Richard Dawkins and His Many Gods (apologetics, atheism, Richard Dawkins, village atheism)
September 29 - “Unbelievable”: True Crime Redeemed (review, true crime, Unbelievable)
September 27 - A Podcast Conversation of Dizzying Scope (Andrew Murtagh, interview, philosophical theology, podcast)
September 25 - Is it wrong to call Donald Trump a pig? (Donald Trump, pig, politics)
September 24 - A Child Shall Lead Them: Why Greta Thunberg is no laughing matter (Greta Thunberg, satire, The Babylon Bee, The Onion)
September 22 - Advice for Young-Earth Creationists (fundamentalism, young earth creationism)
September 21 - On Ham-Fisted Young Earth Creationism (fundamentalism, indoctrination, Ken Ham, Unbelievable, young earth creationism)
September 21 - On Throwing the First Stone: Thoughts on Trudeau and Blackface (blackface, Justin Trudeau, moral development, woke culture)
September 15 - What’s Christianity’s biggest weakness? Evidence? Or Poor Diplomats? (apologetics, discipleship, evangelism)
September 13 - Bill Maher and the Hypocrisy of Fat-Shaming (Bill Maher, fat-shaming, hypocrisy, James Corden)
September 9 - The success of science is paid for by a limitation of its ambitions (apologetics, philosophy, science, theology)
September 7 - Does the Existence of Several Biblical Canons Lead to One Big Problem? (Bible, canon, Deuterocanon)
September 4 - Apologetics Curricula for Churches (apologetics, apologetics curricula)
September 1 - Jesus and the Devil’s Music (Christian discipleship, discipleship, evangelism, rock music, witness)
August 26 - The Day Christopher Hitchens Battled Five Christian Apologists (apologetics, Christopher Hitchens, debate, dialogue, problem of evil)
August 23 - Asking Atheist Apologist Pinecreek Doug some Questions (apologetics, atheism, dialogue, Pinecreek Doug)
August 22 - Is doubt virtuous? Is certainty arrogant? (certainty, doubt, epistemic virtue, epistemology, virtue epistemology)
August 19 - Talking hell, the Bible, biblical violence, and lots more with an atheist apologist (apologetics, Bible, debate, dialogue, hell, Pinecreek Doug)
August 18 - My Summer Read: A review of Lake of the Ozarks (Bill Geist, memoir, review)
August 17 - A simple way to rate the skepticism of atheists and agnostics (agnosticism, atheism, doubt, miracle, skepticism)
August 15 - Turning the tables on the problem of evil (atheism, greater goods, problem of evil, Scott Clifton, theodicy)
August 12 - Four Pitfalls for Apologists Defending Biblical Violence (apologetics, biblical violence, moral epistemology, moral skepticism)
August 8 - Standing up to bullies is cool (bullying)
August 6 - Don’t be a misleading (and thereby dishonest) apologist (apologetics, deception, dishonesty)
August 6 - Flat Earth, Young Earth? (flat-earth, science, theology, young earth creationism)
August 5 - Is constructive systematic theology a conceptual failure? (doctrine, doctrine of the Trinity, systematic theology, theology)
August 3 - The magic of staying at a cheap motel when you’re a kid (family, memories, motel, travel)
August 1 - God can save mid-level sinners like me, but not mega-sinners like Stalin (hell, Steve Hays, Triablogue, universalism)
July 29 - I had a long exchange with a Trump-supporting pastor on Twitter. It went as you would expect (Donald Trump, evangelicalism, fundamentalism)
July 27 - Dragging Jesus Through the MAGA-Mud (Christianity, Donald Trump, evangelicalism, MAGA, racism)
July 25 - Young earth creationism destroys the faith of young people. Don’t let it. (fundamentalism, science, young earth creationism)
July 23 - Does God call all people to the same church? (ecclesial pluralism, ecclesiology, ecumenism, Trent Horn)
July 20 - Christianity is a religion, not a relationship (Christianity, rhetoric)
July 19 - My Response to the Pinecreek-Doug-Dilemma (ethics, metaethics, Pinecreek Doug, problem of evil, skepticism)
July 19 - Adjust Your Expectations (Christian discipleship, discipleship, hope, suffering)
July 17 - A street apologist puts me in my place (biblical atrocity, biblical violence, critique, ethics, hermeneutics, Randal Rauser, street epistemology, theology, William Lane Craig)
July 17 - God and the Tooth Fairy (atheism, God, tooth fairy, village atheism)
July 15 - Assuming Christianity is false. There, aren’t we clever? (atheism, begging the question, indoctrination, thought experiment)
July 14 - Four (or more) Steps to Making Sense of Biblical Violence (Bible, biblical violence, ethics, hermeneutics, violence)
July 12 - Cultic Atheistic Indoctrination in a Meme (atheism, indoctrination, secularism)
July 11 - On being friends with people who don’t believe Jesus is the messiah (debate, friendship, Michael Licona)
July 9 - Why They’re Catholic: A Review of Trent Horn, Why We’re Catholic (apologetics, book review, Catholic apologetics, Catholicism, review, Trent Horn)
July 7 - Reasonable Belief, Reasonable Doubt, and the Resurrection of Jesus (historiography, history, rationality, resurrection)
July 6 - Is Christianity falsifiable? Does it matter if it isn’t? (apologetics, falsification, rationality, worldview)
July 4 - Do I have an anything goes epistemology? A response to my critic (apologetics, defeaters, epistemology, Jeff Kesterson, moderate foundationalism, Reformed epistemology)
July 2 - “There is insufficient evidence to warrant belief.” Eh? (belief, epistemology, evidence, justification, rationality, warrant)
July 1 - Off the Rails: Debriefing my Misunderstanding with Paul Franks (child separation, debate, dialogue, ethics, Paul Franks, public square)
June 29 - If you came to believe that Christianity is false, you would become a… (atheism, Christianity, Judaism, theism)
June 26 - A Meme About Immigrant Children and Humanity Lost (Donald Trump, ethics, nationalism)
June 23 - Taking the Bible Seriously (But not Literally) Word for Word (Bible, fundamentalism, hermeneutics, literal interpretation, literal sense)
June 19 - On the ethics of transsexual surgery (body identity dysphoria, ethics, gender dysphoria, transgender, transsexual)
June 18 - Is Islam more violent than Christianity? Is the Qur’an more violent than the Bible? Who decides? (Bible, Christianity, Islam, Qur'an, violence)
June 15 - Transgender identity and transethnic identity (ethics, transgender)
June 14 - Why belief in divine inspiration commits the reader to wrestling with Scripture (biblical inspiration, hermeneutics, inerrancy, inspiration)
June 13 - Turning an atheist argument on its head (atheism, justification, naturalism)
June 12 - My Tribute to My Father (dad, death, eschatology, funeral, grief)
June 12 - Does God want everyone to join a single church? (Catholicism, debate, ecumenism, interview, Protestantism, Trent Horn)
June 10 - A simple illustration of the craven nature of the Republican party today (Donald Trump, ethics, politics, Robert Mueller)
June 9 - Reflections on a study Bible for atheists (atheism, skepticism, study Bible)
June 9 - How do you know you’re not dreaming? (epistemology, skepticism)
June 6 - Responding to a half-baked objection to hell (eschatology, hell, judgment)
June 5 - Why evangelicalism often fails to be effective (Christianity, evangelicalism, mere Christianity)
June 2 - I’m no psychiatrist, but … is televangelist Kenneth Copeland a psychopath? (Kenneth Copeland, psychopathy, televangelism)
June 2 - Agnostic Atheists? (agnosticism, atheism)
June 1 - An argument for beheading or against lethal injection (capital punishment, ethics)
June 1 - Atheists who poison the well by calling things magic (magic, poisoning the well, rhetoric, Stephen Law)
May 31 - The Problem of Atheist Anti-Intellectualism (anti-intellectualism, atheism, fundamentalism, Nate Phelps, philosophy of religion)
May 30 - More Moral and Theological Dilemmas (with Trent Horn) (interview, theology, Trent Horn)
May 29 - Debating Moral Dilemmas with Trent Horn (ethics, interview, Trent Horn)
May 28 - Should Christian evangelists share their doubts during the altar call? (doubt, evangelism)
May 27 - My New Book and Other Updates
May 24 - Naturalism in a Tweet (naturalism)
May 22 - Does it degrade public discourse to call people buffoons, fools, and clowns? (persuasion, public discourse, rhetoric)
May 21 - The Nature of Hell: A friendly debate (annihilationism, eternal conscious torment, hell, interview, Trent Horn)
May 19 - Coming to Terms with the Problem of Evil (apologetics, evil, problem of evil, steelman, suffering)
May 11 - On keeping the ladies in the nursery: A response to Owen Strachan (complementarianism, Owen Strachan, sexism)
May 10 - Miracles, Resurrections, and Historical Explanation (history, miracle, resurection)
May 9 - Christianity Today and its Ironic Tribute to Rachel Held Evans (Christianity Today, evangelicalism, Mark Galli, Rachel Held Evans)
May 9 - Tom Jump says it is not possible to know that God exists. And I reply. (atheism, epistemology, interview, Tom Jump)
May 8 - How to Have Good Apologetics Conversations (apologetics, conversation, interview, podcast, The Cordial Catholic)
May 7 - My Dad’s Alzheimer’s in 46 Tweets (Alzheimer's Disease, dad, dementia, father, problem of evil, problem of suffering)
May 4 - How to Respond to the Rachel Held Evans Haters (Calvinism, fundamentalism, Rachel Held Evans)
May 2 - Rebuttals: From Worst to Best (argument, rebuttal)
May 2 - Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God? And what does that mean, anyways? (Christianity, Islam, John Loftus)
April 30 - The Christian Apologist’s Serenity Prayer (apologetics, Serenity Prayer)
April 30 - Is Catholic Communion Cannibalism? My Thoughts (cannibalism, Catholicism, Eucharist, Mass)
April 29 - Answering the biggest questions about apologetics and Christianity (apologetics, interview, problem of evil, sermon)
April 29 - If Christians are not, on average, better than non-Christians, is that a problem for Christianity? (church, defeater, holiness)
April 25 - Your poor Christian witness today could make atheists a century from now (Christian witness, discipleship, evangelism)
April 25 - Fahrenheit 11/9. A Brief Review (Donald Trump, Fahrenheit 11/9, Michael Moore, review)
April 22 - Liberal Christians who distort the Gospel and Conservative Christians who do likewise (conservatism, evangelicalism, liberalism)
April 21 - My Dad’s Ashes: A Resurrection Reflection (Easter, resurrection)
April 19 - Sweeping agnostic claims are anything but humble … or wise (agnosticism, epistemology)
April 17 - Apologetics and the Indoctrinated American Atheist (apologetics, atheism, indoctriation)
April 16 - Things I Learned from My Father: Everyone has a name (meditation, reflection)
April 12 - Pete Buttigieg and the Christian Defense of Same-Sex Marriage through Experience (ethics, hermeneutics, Pete Buttigieg, same-sex marriage)
April 8 - Random Thoughts on the Death of My Father (death, grief, lament)
April 6 - On Retreating into Mystery: A problem for Christian apologists? (A.C. Grayling, apologetics, mystery, paradox, poisoning the well, rhetoric)
April 2 - Dabney’s Disturbing Defense of the Elation of the Elect in the Destiny of the Damned (damnation, ethics, hell, Robert Dabney)
March 31 - Prayer, Hypocrisy, and Hospitality: A Response to Stephanie Borowicz (hospitality, hypocrisy, prayer)
March 28 - The Last Visit with Dad (death, hope, mortality, resurrection)
March 26 - My Choice of Ten Articles to Represent My Decade of Blogging (anniversary, apologetics, blog, culture, theology)
March 24 - It’s been ten years since I started blogging. Sigh… (anniversary, blogging)
March 23 - Do not create unnecessary stumbling blocks to Christian faith (apologetics, doctrine, evangelism, mere Christianity, theology)
March 21 - Cambridge University is too inclusive to allow Jordan Peterson to visit. Seriously. (dialogue, inclusivity, Jordan Peterson, right wing dialogue)
March 18 - On Strawmen and Steelmen (steelman, strawman)
March 15 - Will there be sex in heaven? (coition, eschatology, resurrection, sexual ethics)
March 13 - A Christian Argument for Antinatalism (antinatalism, birth, Christianity, hell)
March 10 - The Problem of Evil and Biblical Violence: A Conversation with an Exvangelical (biblical violence, Clint Heacock, dialogue, problem of evil, theodicy)
March 9 - Don’t Be Meme! A Friendly Debate and Dialogue (David Smalley, debate, Justin Brierley, meme, Unbelievable)
March 8 - Biography as Theology: A Review (biography, James Wm McClendon Jr., review, theology)
March 7 - Pelagian Calvinism (Calvinism, Pelagianism, Steve Hays, Triablogue)
March 5 - Does Calvinism entail that I might love my child more than God does? (Calvinism, love, omnibenevolence)
March 4 - A Conversation with Catholic Apologist Trent Horn (Part 2): Is There One True Church? (Roman Catholicism, Trent Horn)
March 2 - Why it isn’t helpful to use progressive vs. conservative as boundary markers (conservatism, fundamentalism, liberalism, progressivism, You're not as crazy as I think)
March 1 - Anti-intellectualism remains a serious problem in the atheist community (anti-intellectualism, atheism, fundamentalism)
March 1 - An Argument against Islam and Calvinism (Calvinism, Islam, perfect being theology, William Lane Craig)
February 27 - Your Child, the Martyr (discipleship, evangelism, martyrdom, mission, witness)
February 27 - Islam and Christianity: A Dialogue (Christianity, dialogue, Islam, religious dialogue)
February 26 - This is Why We Write Books
February 24 - Skeptics Shifting Goalposts (apologetics, Edward Babinski, logical fallacy, shifting goalposts)
February 24 - Winsome Persuasion: A Review (communication, dialogue, review, rhetoric, Richard Langer, Tim Muehlhoff, Winsome Persuasion)
February 23 - Issac Watts and His Racist Hymn (colonialism, hymnody, racism)
February 20 - The Evidential Burdens of Atheism (atheism, epistemology, evidence, evidentialism, justification)
February 18 - Abraham, Isaac, and … Anselm? A Review of The Question of God’s Perfection (biblical theology, book review, divine perfection, Dru Johnson, natural theology, Yoram Hazony)
February 17 - Good arguments don’t need to persuade everyone to be good (argument, persuasion, soundness, validity)
February 15 - Why the problem of evil is the ultimate theist/atheist standoff (apologetics, atheism, problem of evil, theism, You're not as crazy as I think)
February 12 - A Conversation with Catholic Apologist Trent Horn: Part 1 (The Magisterium) (apologetics, Catholic apologetics, Catholicism, epistemology, magisterium, Trent Horn)
February 11 - Would you support a divorce in this terrible case? (divorce, ethics)
February 10 - On Pastors Who Doubt (doubt, faith, ministry)
February 8 - Is Preachability at the Gates of Auschwitz a Proper Measure for Good Theology? (arminianism, Auschwitz, Calvinism, open theism, pastoral theology, providence)
February 6 - On Anti-Abortion Extremists (and other unhelpful rhetoric) (abortion, prochoice, prolife, rhetoric)
February 6 - Confusion on the Trinity (Cornelius Plantinga Jr., doctrine of the Trinity, theological language, Trinity)
February 5 - Formulating an Argument Against Christianity Based on Confusion About Salvation? (Christianity, revelation, soteriology, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
February 4 - Does religion impose oppressive dress codes? (atheism, dress code, freedom, religion, secularism, Stephen Law)
February 3 - Christians cannot sit on the fence concerning Ravi Zacharias (apologetics, Ravi Zacharias, RZIM, Steve Baughman)
February 2 - Let’s discuss the Confederate Flag in Pop Culture (censorship, confederate flag, General Lee, racism, slavery)
February 1 - Wow, P.Z. Myers really doesn’t like the new atheism (atheism, naturalism, new atheism, P.Z. Myers)
January 31 - Commit Hume to the Flames (David Hume, empiricism, Enlightenment, rationalism, self-referential defeat)
January 29 - My Thoughts on the Christian Version of Netflix (Crossflix, evangelicalism, fundamentalism)
January 29 - Seeking Justice from a Humanist Framework: An Interview with Sincere Kirabo (activism, ethics, humanism, interview, justice, Sincere Kirabo, social justice)
January 28 - Never Again: Remembering the Holocaust and the Church
January 27 - Solomonoff Induction and the Alpha Algorithm (apologetics, guest post, kolmogorov complexity, Mason Green, solomonoff induction)
January 26 - Notes on My “Trick Question” (Christianity, ethics)
January 26 - Some Christians say the world is getting worse. Are they right? (eschatology, ethics, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, theology)
January 25 - Debriefing the Trinity Debate: A Conversation with Dale Tuggy (Dale Tuggy, debate, Michael Brown, Trinitarianism, Trinity, Unitarianism)
January 25 - Would you rather be a Muslim who acts like Jesus or a Christian who doesn’t? (Christianity, discipleship, doctrine, holiness, Islam, salvation)
January 22 - Dumb-plin: My (Brief) Review of Dumplin (Dumplin, review)
January 22 - What can we learn from the Covington Boys Controversy? (Covington Boys, judgment, prejudice, You're not as crazy as I think)
January 22 - Can you be a Christian if you doubt? (assurance, doubt, faith, knowledge)
January 20 - A Word on Behalf of the Idiots (ethics, MAGA, racism)
January 19 - The Problem of Religious Skeptics Singling out Religious Beliefs for Criticism (epistemology, rationality, religious epistemology)
January 18 - Can You Be a Calminian? Yes … and No (arminianism, Calminian, Calvinism, election, theology)
January 18 - God in a Transcendental Signifier: A Conversation with Joseph Hinman (apologetics, atheism, Joseph Hinman, transcendental argument)
January 16 - Why Every Christian Should Be a Hopeful Universalist (eternal conscious torment, heaven, hell, hopeful universalism, universalism)
January 13 - “Nihilism is false iff theism is true”: Let’s Discuss (atheism, nihilism, theism)
January 12 - The Meaning and Rationality of Faith: A Christian and Atheist Conversation (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, epistemology, faith, Justin Schieber, rationality)
January 11 - How I wore evangelistic T-shirts in high school to try and save … myself (evangelism, fundamentalism, salvation, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
January 9 - Philosophy and Magic: What’s the difference? (magic, philosophy, Stephen Law)
January 8 - Searching for God in Mystical Experience: An interview with Joseph Hinman (apologetics, interview, Joseph Hinman, mysticism, religious experience)
January 7 - What’s So Confusing About Grace? Sale
January 6 - Why I think Christians are morally obliged to make their organs available for donation (posthumously!) (Christian ethics, organ donation)
January 6 - Van Halen and Christian Joy (joy, Van Halen)
January 2 - Christian Post readers reply to my anti-Trump article (Christianity, Donald Trump, evangelicalism)
January 2 - The Scattershot Atheist: The Dan Barker/Trent Horn Debate: A Review (Part 2) (apologetics, atheism, Dan Barker, debate, review, theism, Trent Horn)
January 1 - Does God privilege weak outsiders over powerful insiders? A response to Tim Keller (salvation, scandal of particularity, Tim Keller)

2018

December 30 - If evangelicals are pro-family, then why don’t they care about Trump’s child separation policy? (Donald Trump, ethics, evangelicalism, immigration, politics)
December 29 - Bandersnatch… or Blandersnatch? (Bandersnatch, Black Mirror, review, science fiction)
December 28 - Thoughts on the Ravi Zacharias Christmas Insult Letter (apologetics, Ravi Zacharias)
December 26 - The Dan Barker/Trent Horn Debate: A Review (Part 1) (apologetics, atheism, Dan Barker, debate, theism, Trent Horn)
December 24 - My Best Christmas Tree Ever (Christmas tree, Merry Christmas)
December 23 - Is it categorically wrong to eat other human beings? (cannibalism, ethics, moral perception)
December 21 - Could God command something morally heinous? (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, atheism, divine command ethics, divine command theory, ethics, Justin Schieber, moral epistemology, Randal Rauser, skepticism)
December 20 - Would you kill your child if God told you to? (divine command, ethics, faith, morality)
December 19 - The Lying Apologist: A Review of Cover-Up in the Kingdom (apologetics, Ravi Zacharias, Steve Baughman)
December 17 - The Solution to Christians Becoming Atheists (Part 2) (apostasy, atheism, conversion, discipleship, interview, John Marriott)
December 14 - The Solution to Christians Becoming Atheists (Part 1) (atheism, conversion, discipleship, evangelism, John Marriott)
December 11 - The Problem of Christians Becoming Atheists (atheism, discipleship, interview, John Marriott, secularism)
December 7 - How a “vaccine-hesitant” mom changed her mind, and what that can teach the apologist (anti-vax, apologetics, persuasion)
December 5 - Can a subjective, private religious experience be veridical? (epistemology, John Loftus, religious experience)
December 3 - Atheism and the Desire for Privacy (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, apologetics, atheism, Justin Schieber, theism)
December 1 - 21st Century Martyr: A conversation on the legacy of John Allen Chau (divine calling, ethics, evangelism, interview, John Allen Chau, John Stackhouse, missionary)
November 30 - Would you support a Muslim charity if it was more effective than a Christian one? (efficiency, evangelism, NGO, social justice)
November 26 - Do bad children go to hell? (damnation, hell, soteriology, theology, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
November 25 - Some Thoughts on the Bennett/Lee Dialogue on Gay Christianity (David Bennett, ethics, homosexuality, Justin Brierley, Justin Lee, Unbelievable)
November 21 - Does inerrancy apply to the human authors of the Bible? (Bible, hermeneutics, inerrancy, inspiration, Paul Franks, revelation, theology)
November 17 - In apologetics, the ability to debate is good, but the ability to listen is better (apologetics, hospitality)
November 15 - Atheism and Christmas: An interview with Rick Marazzani (atheism, Christmas, interview, secularism)
November 13 - The Problem of Animal Suffering: An Atheist and Christian in Conversation (animal suffering, apologetics, atheism, natural evil, problem of evil, Skydive Phil, theology)
November 12 - Transgender Hospitality Redux (ethics, transgender)
November 11 - In surprise settlement, United Church agrees it’s not actually a Christian church (atheism, Gretta Vosper, United Church of Canada)
November 9 - Arguments for and against God: A Christian and Atheist Discussion (apologetics, atheism, debate, interview, theism)
November 9 - Morally Indignant Humanists Take Aim at Operation Christmas Child (child evangelism, Humanists UK, Operation Christmas Child)
November 8 - Transgender Hospitality: A Response to James Anderson (hospitality, James Anderson, transgender)
November 7 - The Cross and the Lynching Tree: A Review (book review, ethics, James Cone, liberation theology, lynching, racism, review)
November 5 - Drown the Pastor! Or, beware the angry evangelical congregation (church, ecclesiology, love, Tim Schroeder)
November 3 - The Fascist Snowflake: Thoughts on the Bannon/Frum Debate (David Frum, fascism, liberal democracy, nationalism, Steve Bannon)
October 27 - A Review of Blue Babies Pink: A Southern Coming Out Story (Brett Trapp, ethics, evangelical ethics, homosexuality, LGBT)
October 26 - How to help Stephen Law enjoy horror movies again (horror film, meticulous providence, Stephen Law)
October 25 - Did a Democrat send the pipe bombs? And other conspiracy theories (conspiracy theory)
October 24 - What is Mere Christianity? Part 6: James Anderson Answers (doctrine, ecclesiology, ecumenism, James Anderson, mere Christianity)
October 22 - Hell and the Principle of Proportional Justice (hell, Ligonier Ministries, principle of proportional justice)
October 20 - The Biblical Illiteracy of Christian Fundamentalists: The Case of Ligonier Ministries (Bible, fundamentalism, hermeneutics Ligonier Ministries)
October 19 - Do three-year-olds deserve to be tortured eternally in hell? Apparently Ligonier Ministries thinks so. And they’re alarmed at those who disagree (Calvinism, hell, Ligonier Ministries, theology)
October 17 - What is Mere Christianity? Part 5: John Mark N Reynolds Answers (ecumenism, John Mark N Reynolds, mere Christianity, theology)
October 16 - What is Mere Christianity? Part 4: Eric Reitan Answers (ecumenism, Eric Reitan, Martin Luther, mere Christianity)
October 13 - What is Mere Christianity? Part 3: Myron B. Penner Answers (ecumenism, mere Christianity, Myron Penner, orthodoxy)
October 12 - Which sins are the most serious? And why? (character, ethics, leadership, morality)
October 11 - What is Mere Christianity? Part 2: John Stackhouse answers (John Stackhouse, mere Christianity)
October 9 - What is Mere Christianity? Part 1: Dale Tuggy (Dale Tuggy, mere Christianity)
October 6 - Does the success of Christianity provide a prima facie reason to believe it is true? (apologetics, argumentum ad populum, consensus, epistemology, rationality, social epistemology)
October 5 - We like protesters, but only if they agree with us
October 3 - The Kavanaugh Effect, or Coming to Terms with Rape Culture (Brett Kavanaugh, ethics, Kirsten Powers, rape culture, sexual assault)
October 2 - Is the evangelical tent getting bigger? (conservatism, evangelicalism, liberalism, orthodoxy)
October 1 - The Day I Ran for the Cure (fundraiser, fundraising, Run for the Cure)
September 25 - Does Christianity need the Homoousion? (Christianity, homoousion, orthodoxy)
September 22 - The Ways of Atheist Indoctrination (atheism, indoctrination, skepticism, You're not as crazy as I think)
September 18 - What does it mean to be evangelical? And is it worth defending? (evangelicalism, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
September 16 - Ravi Zacharias: Apologist or Fabulist? An interview with Steve Baughman (apologetics, interview, Ravi Zacharias, Steve Baughman, truth)
September 14 - On Spurious Attempts to Favor Naturalism over Theism (apologetics, epistemology, naturalism, Ockham's razor, solipsism)
September 12 - A Defense of Apatheism, sort of (apatheism, atheism, Douglas Groothuis, Jonathan Rauch, practical atheism)
September 11 - How to tell your article hit the mark (fundamentalism)
September 9 - Help me kick cancer in the teeth with my steel-toe running shoes (cancer, fundraiser)
September 9 - Dear Ravi Zacharias, Dishonesty is Always a Poor Apologetic (apologetics, dishonesty, Ravi Zacharias)
September 8 - The Top Five Problems with Contemporary Christian Apologetics (apologetics, fundamentalism)
August 31 - Can violence ever serve a redemptive purpose? (atonement, greater goods, problem of evil, redemptive violence, Rene Girard)
August 29 - Blind Faith: All the Way Down. A Review of one Chapter in Still Unbelievable. (faith, Justin Brierley, Still Unbelievable)
August 27 - Addressing some Unbelievable Fallout (apologetics, atheism, debate, Justin Brierley, Unbelievable)
August 27 - The Ultimate Elevator Pitch Continues: Defending a Worldview in Thirty (or Ninety) Seconds (atheism, Christianity, elevator pitch, worldview)
August 25 - Can we make sense of the concept of progressive revelation? A Christian/Atheist Dialogue (debate, interview, progressive revelation, revelation)
August 24 - Defending Unbelievable: Brierley and Rauser vs. Johnson and Knight (apologetics, debate, interview, Justin Brierley, Still Unbelievable, Unbelievable)
August 24 - Let’s Talk About Atheism and Charitable Dialogue
August 23 - The Ultimate Elevator Pitch: Defending a Worldview in Thirty Seconds or Less (apologetics, elevator pitch, worldview)
August 21 - The Ultimate Elevator Pitch: Can you sell your worldview in thirty seconds or less?
August 19 - Catholics are now trying to link the problem of child-molesting priests to same-sex attraction. Don’t let them. (Catholic Church, Catholicism, child molestation, homosexuality, pedophilia)
August 17 - Are Gay People More Likely to be Pedophiles? (homosexuality, pedophilia, prejudice)
August 16 - Does the systemic sexual abuse among Catholic clergy undermine the Catholic Church itself? (abuse, Catholic Church, ecclesiology, pastoral theology, problem of evil)
August 15 - Encountering Mystery at the Summer Waterslide (epistemic humility, epistemology, mystery, rationality, theology)
August 14 - Do you need to know how the internal witness of the Holy Spirit works in order to receive an internal witness of the Holy Spirit? (epistemology, religious belief, religious epistemology, sensus divinitatis)
August 12 - If you reject evolution, should you accept a flat earth? (earth science, flat-earth, hermeneutics, science, theology, young earth creationism)
August 10 - Being a former Christian doesn’t ensure you’re an informed and fair critic of Christianity (apologetics, atheism, theism)
August 9 - Can an evangelical believe this? (evangelicalism)
August 9 - Ungatz: How a Lucky atheist faces his mortality (atheism, Harry Dean Stanton, Lucky, mortality, movie review, nihilism)
August 7 - Why doesn’t God give everyone a miracle? (apologetics, problem of evil, providence, suffering, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
August 6 - Ten Years After the Atheist Bus Campaign: Some Reflections (atheism, meaning, naturalism)
August 4 - Dementia: A Philosopher’s Lament (dementia, Douglas Groothuis, lament, pastoral theology, problem of evil)
August 2 - Is atheism a more hopeful view of the future than Christianity? (atheism, eschatology, hell, justice, theodicy)
July 30 - Is divine command theory a danger in the hands of the mentally ill? (divine command ethics, divine command theory, ethics, mental illness)
July 28 - Naturalism and Faith (faith, naturalism)
July 27 - Would Jesus want you to stay married to a psychopath? (biblical ethics, hermeneutics, Jesus, marriage, psychopathy, sexual ethics)
July 25 - The Ten (or more) Commandments of Christian Fundamentalism (culture, fundamentalism)
July 24 - Jesus could not sin. So was he really tempted?
July 22 - A famous atheist contrasts philosophy, science, and theology (atheism, Bertrand Russell, philosophy, science, theology)
July 19 - Are theological theories falsifiable? (epistemology, falsification, science, theology)
July 17 - On Worthwhile Conversation (conversation, dialogue, religious dialogue)
July 17 - If Jesus has not been raised, is our faith in vain? (historical Jesus, Jesus, resurrection)
July 15 - Puritans at the Cinema (culture, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, moralism)
July 13 - Is the psychopath morally responsible for his actions? (psychopath, psychopathy, Ted Bundy)
July 12 - When is an apologetic dialogue no longer worth pursuing? (apologetics, debate, dialogue, open mind, rationality)
July 10 - Atheism, Christianity, and Naive Empiricism (atheism, empiricism, naive empiricism, skepticism)
July 9 - Reckoning with the Peaceable Kingdom: A Review of Disarming the Church (biblical ethics, Christian ethics, Eric Seibert, just war, pacifism, violence)
July 5 - The problem with a god who suffers (classical theism, God, impassibility, theology)
July 4 - Childhood may be more terrifying than you remember
July 3 - If the Bible is a map for how to get to heaven, it isn’t a very good one (Bible, bibliology, hermeneutics, special revelation)
July 2 - Does the Bible condemn same-sex relationships? A Response to Michael Brown (Part 3) (biblical ethics, homosexuality, Michael Brown, sexual ethics)
July 1 - Pastor to the Ragamuffins: A review of Pastrix (Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix, review)
June 30 - Are same-sex relations and menstrual intercourse moral abominations? A Response to Michael Brown (Part 2) (biblical ethics, homosexuality, Michael Brown, sexual ethics)
June 28 - Overcome your Cognitive Bias with the 50/50 Rule (cognitive bias, Golden Rule)
June 27 - Gay-Affirming Christians and Charismatics: A response to Michael Brown (Part 1a) (charismatic, experience, homosexuality, LGBT, Michael Brown, Pentecostal, theological method)
June 26 - Okay, so Laura Ingalls Wilder was a racist. Now what? (Laura Ingalls Wilder, Martin Luther King Jr., racism)
June 25 - Is gay culture necessarily promiscuous? A response to Michael Brown (Part 1) (homosexuality, LGBT, Michael Brown, sexual ethics)
June 22 - The Bible depicts God commanding moral atrocities. Should we believe it? (biblical ethics, biblical violence, ethics, hermenutics, moral knowledge, moral perception)
June 21 - Fundamentalist Apologetics Comes of Age: A Review of Evidence that Demands a Verdict (apologetics, Evidence that Demands a Verdict, Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell)
June 14 - What apologists typically do vs. what they always should do (apologetics, Hugh Ross)
June 13 - Strawmen, the Golden Rule, and Apologetic Hypocrisy (apologetics, hypocrisy, Josh McDowell, Paul Copan, Sean McDowell)
June 11 - The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: A Review (biblical studies, biblical violence, biblical warfare, canaanite genocide)
June 10 - If you support Donald Trump, you do not support personal liberty (demagoguery, democracy, Donald Trump, Michael Brown)
June 7 - An Unbelievable Illustration of My Problem with Christian Apologetics (apologetics, Bart Campolo, Justin Brierley, Sean McDowell, Unbelievable)
June 4 - Bauckham’s Exorcism: A Review of Jesus and the Eyewitnesses (apologetics, biblical studies, Gospels, historical Jesus, Richard Bauckham)
June 3 - Hospitality is a Two-Way Street: Gender Pronouns and Welcome of the Other (gender, gender binary, gender politics, hospitality, transgender)
June 1 - Can a Bad Apologist Produce a Good Apologetic? (apologetics, character, Dinesh D'Souza)
May 26 - Shrewd as Snakes: The Christian and the Psychopath (Christianity, psychopathy)
May 25 - What do you think of extreme grace? (grace, mercy, theology)
May 24 - If James Clapper lied in the past, can we trust that he is telling the truth about Trump and Russia? (credibility, Donald Trump, James Clapper, lying, rationality, witness)
May 24 - Tiresome: The Daunting Task of Authorship Today (authorship, commenting, online)
May 21 - A Scientist’s Creation Story (cosmogony, creation, science)
May 20 - The Conservative Echo Chamber at The Stream (bias, conservatism, Michael Brown, The Stream)
May 19 - Putting “Laurel or Yanny” into Divine Service (epistemology, Reformed epistemology, William Alston)
May 17 - On Atheists Who Want Atheism to be True (antitheism, atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Thomas Nagel)
May 15 - What’s the Most Formative Book You Ever Read? (books, classics, reading)
May 12 - If God wants to save us, why isn’t salvation simple? (salvation, soteriology, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
May 11 - On Defending Apatheism (apatheism)
May 9 - Scientists who get in trouble doing philosophy (Carl Sagan, epistemology, scientism)
May 6 - Bill Nye: Science Guy: A Review (Bill Nye, Bill Nye: Science Guy, fundamentalism, Ken Ham, review, science, scientism)
May 5 - Is marriage just for males and females? (gender binary, marriage, sexual ethics)
May 3 - Should evangelicals be denied the right to adopt? (adoption, ethics, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, sexual ethics)
May 2 - Abortion: We may never agree, but can we at least concede the other side has a point? (abortion, debate, dialogue, persuasion)
April 30 - Jesus, the God of Genocide, and William Barclay (Bible, biblical violence, hermeneutics, revelation, William Barclay)
April 29 - Does the theology of a songwriter define the song? (Bethel Music, orthodoxy, song, worship music)
April 27 - Love comes from lousy neurons (love, naturalism, reductionism)
April 26 - My Latest Article on Atheism at “The Christian Post” (atheism, new atheism)
April 25 - Despite the pessimism of many Christians, the world is improving (millennium, postmillennialism, Shirley Guthrie)
April 23 - I had a Twitter exchange with a Trump supporter … and we made progress
April 21 - Pro-life Carpet-bombers: On the moral incoherence of neocon conservative Christians (Christian ethics, ethics, Evangelium Vitae, Michael Brown, pro-life, Ted Cruz, war)
April 20 - Hymns vs. Choruses: Are the Worship Wars Worth Fighting? (church, consumerism, corporate worship, ecclesiology, What's So Confusing About Grace?, worship wars)
April 18 - An Interview with Me that You Should Read (because I said so)
April 17 - 101. Atheism vs. Christianity with Adam Lee and Andrew Murtagh (Adam Lee, Andrew Murtagh, apologetics, atheism, interview, Meta, theism)
April 15 - Can a soldier be a Christian? (Christian ethics, ethics, just war, pacifism)
April 14 - The Complementarian Dilemma (biblical ethics, complementarianism, egalitarianism, ethics, hermeneutics, sexism)
April 13 - Calvinism and God’s Love: A conversation with Guillaume Bignon (Calvinism, divine love, election, Guillaume Bignon, omnibenevolence, providence, theology)
April 13 - Trump, Comey, and Credibility (credibility, Donald Trump, James Comey)
April 10 - Bad Arguments for Atheism. Bad Arguments Against Atheism. (apologetics, atheism, Counsel of Trent, interview, podcast, theism, Trent Horn)
April 8 - Post-Apocalyptic Family Values: A Review of A Quiet Place (A Quiet Place, movie review, review)
April 7 - Ain’t Gonna Make a Monkey Out of Me! Is Darwinism Compatible with Human Dignity? (anthropology, creationism, Darwinism, evolution, image of God)
April 5 - Should we be (most) certain that God exists? (certainty, doubt, Doug Axe, epistemology, proper basicality, theism)
April 3 - God, deliver us from skepticism! (Then again, maybe not.) (Michael Brown, miracle, providence, skepticism)
April 2 - A Bad Objection to Christian Universalism (hopeful universalism, universalism)
March 31 - I Believe on the Third Day He Rose Again . . . but what about those who don’t? (Marcus Borg, orthodoxy, resurrection, theology, You're not as crazy as I think)
March 29 - Here I Stand: On Alvin Plantinga’s Luther Moment (Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief)
March 27 - Depersonalizing the Damned: Hell and the humanity of those who go there (C.S. Lewis, eternal conscious torment, hell)
March 27 - A Debate on God in Edmonton (apologetics, debate)
March 25 - Is the Exodus as important to Christian belief as Jesus’ resurrection? (Bible, bibliology, inerrancy, inspiration, revelation)
March 24 - What kind of diversity do you value most? (affirmative action, diversity)
March 23 - Christian Apologetics, Quality Control, and the Credibility Problem (apologetics, atheism, crossexamined.org, Frank Turek)
March 20 - N.T. Wright and the Universalist Strawman (eschatology, eternal conscious torment, hell, N.T. Wright, universalism)
March 18 - I Can Only Imagine: A Review (Christian movie, I can only imagine, review)
March 17 - Does Calvinism offer a basis for the assurance of salvation? (arminianism, assurance, Calvinism, epistemology, perseverance, salvation)
March 14 - Hidden in Plain View: A Review (apologetics, Bible, Hidden in Plain View, Lydia McGrew, review)
March 13 - The Hyenas Did Not Touch Him: On Writing Creeds Today (creed, doctrine, Jaroslav Pelikan, Maasai Creed)
March 10 - Failed Prayer Studies: A Response (apologetics, healing, petitionary prayer, prayer, providence)
March 8 - We especially welcome applications from women and visible minorities (affirmative action, ethics, gender politics)
March 7 - YouTube and the Christian Persecution Complex (Michael Brown, persecution complex, YouTube)
March 6 - Have you committed the Unforgivable Sin? A Devotional Reflection (grace, unforgivable sin, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
March 4 - God Became Meat: A Devotional Reflection (christology, devotional, incarnation, reflection)
March 2 - A Family Defense of the Resurrection of Jesus (apologetics, God or Godless, historical Jesus, James, resurrection)
March 1 - Why is Billy Graham Lying in State? (Billy Graham, civic religion, Establishment clause, United States)
February 28 - Feel free to sit on the fence, but don’t get caught in the lava flow (decision theory, rationality, reason, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails)
February 26 - How the Ebola Virus Taught Me About the Gospel (discipleship, Ebola, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
February 24 - Should evangelical institutions require belief in eternal conscious torment? (doctrine, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, Statement of faith, Trinity Western University)
February 23 - To Cremate or Not To Cremate? (cremation, eschatology, resurrection, theology)
February 21 - Would you disciple a Muslim child against his parents’ wishes? (ethics, evangelism, Islam, religion)
February 20 - Is God’s Love “Reckless”? (Reckless Love, theology, worship music)
February 18 - Does Christianity promise that everything sad is going to come untrue? (eschatology, hell, universalism)
February 17 - Neil deGrasse Tyson is a Partisan Hack with No Class (atheism, naturalism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, partisanship)
February 16 - In case you have any delusions of grandeur about becoming an author, here’s the reality (authorship, Christian publishing, publishing)
February 15 - What’s the Value of Social Action in the Name of Jesus? (evangelism, social action)
February 14 - Who is the Fool? How Christians misread the Bible to attack atheists (atheism, Bible, hermeneutics, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?)
February 12 - Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: Evangelism and the Ethics of Scaring the Hell out of Children (damnation, ethics, evangelism, hell)
February 10 - Can Evangelicalism Be Saved? My Debate with Frank Schaeffer (debate, Donald Trump, evangelicalism, Frank Schaeffer, Justin Brierley, Unbelievable)
February 9 - Apologetic Debate, Philosophy Robotics, and Clear Thinking (apologetics, debate)
February 8 - In Christ Alone and the Interesting Worship Wars (atonement, In Christ Alone, penal substitution, worship wars)
February 6 - Teaching the Destruction of Jericho to Children (biblical violence, children, ethics, Jericho)
February 5 - Is the biblical God ignorant about science? (apologetics, biblical revelation, debate, God or Godless, John Loftus, science)
February 3 - Would a loving God send people to hell? (damnation, eschatology, hell, judgment, problem of evil)
February 2 - Does Objective Morality Need God? A Christian and Atheist Debate (Andy Bannister, atheism, debate, ethics, Howard Nye, morality)
February 1 - Did the biblical concept of God evolve from polytheism to monotheism? (accommodation, Bible, debate, God or Godless, John Loftus, progressive revelation)
January 30 - 1 Samuel 15 and Paul Copan’s Middling Compromise (biblical violence, ethics, Greg Boyd, hermeneutics, Justin Brierley, Paul Copan)
January 29 - If you can’t define “being biblical,” don’t accuse others of failing to be biblical (biblical, heresy, heresy hunting)
January 26 - Dear Christian Apologist, Don’t Cherry-pick Quotes to Make Your Case (apologetics, atheism, nihilism)
January 24 - How I wrote an article critiquing John Piper … and got attacked by egalitarians (complementarianism, egalitarianism, ethics, John Piper, Jr. Forasteros)
January 23 - John Piper’s Sexism (complementarianism, John Piper, sexism)
January 22 - The Violent God Debate: An Unbelievable Review (biblical interpretation, biblical violence, ethics, Greg Boyd, Justin Brierley, Paul Copan)
January 21 - Conversations with Radical Doubt Part 2: How do you refute solipsism? (epistemology, skepticism, solipsism)
January 19 - Conversations with Radical Doubt Part 1: How do you refute skepticism? (Cartesian Circle, certainty, Descartes, epistemology, knowledge, skepticism)
January 18 - Secular Statistical Shenanigans? On playing with statistics to sell a secular narrative (atheism, Iceland, secularism, statistics)
January 17 - A Master List of Movies for exploring Theology and Philosophy (movies, philosophy, theology)
January 16 - What Happens to Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel? (Cameron Bertuzzi, exclusivism, inclusivism, interview, salvation, soteriology)
January 15 - Is Christian Complementarianism Immoral and Sexist? (complementarianism, ethics, feminism, sexism)
January 14 - Are Positive Stereotypes Immoral? (Donald Trump, prejudice, stereotypes)
January 13 - An Introduction to Christian Worldview: A Review (An Introduction to Christian Worldview, book review, Tawa Anderson, worldview)
January 11 - Is it proper to refer to the Trinity as “he”? (theological language, Trinity)
January 10 - The terrible tragedy of fundamentalist Christian legalism (ethics, fundamentalism, legalism)
January 9 - Help Me Put On a Christian/Atheist Devil’s Advocate Debate (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, debate, devil's advocate)
January 8 - The Problem with Debates (apologetics, debate)
January 6 - Are Angels and Demons Part of an Obsolete Biblical Worldview? (angelology, Bible, biblical cosmology, biblical inspiration, biblical worldview, demonology, inerrancy, worldview)
January 2 - The Biblical Cosmos: A Review (accommodation, biblical interpretation, review, Robin Parry, The Biblical Cosmos, worldview)

2017

December 30 - Can an atheistic worldview support the concept of the holy or sacred? (atheism, sacredness, worldview)
December 28 - Hellrazed? A Review (book review, Hellbound?, Hellrazed, Kevin Miller)
December 26 - Does atheism require more faith than Christian theism? (atheism, faith, Lee Strobel, theism)
December 24 - Debating the Virgin Birth: A Christian/Atheist Conversation (debate, Jonathan Pearce, virgin birth)
December 23 - Have aliens visited earth? Is the idea worth taking seriously? A response to Sean Carroll (rationality, Sean Carroll, skepticism, UFOs)
December 22 - Is belief in God like belief in Santa Claus? (apologetics, God, parody religion, Santa Claus)
December 20 - Pew Sitting as Performance (church, consumerism, ecclesiology, Philip Yancey)
December 19 - How to argue without seeming like a crazy person (dialogue, interview, Matt Fradd, Pints with Aquinas)
December 19 - No true Christian would subjugate and oppress other faiths (Christianity, Islam, logical fallacy, Michael Brown, no true scotsman, tolerance)
December 18 - Is the virgin birth an essential doctrine? (christology, dogma, theology, virgin birth)
December 17 - Best of Enemies: A Review (Best of Enemies, dialogue, review)
December 16 - Spending a Day at Frank’s House: A Review of Letter to Lucy (art, culture, Frank Schaeffer, fundamentalism, Letter to Lucy, review)
December 15 - Transgender Washrooms or Climate Change? (climate change, ethics, fundamentalism, transgender)
December 14 - My New Video Discussing Divine Transcendence (Finding God in the Shack, theology, transcendence)
December 13 - Alarmist evangelical apologetics and the so-called post-truth world (apologetics, culture war, evangelicalism, post-truth, postmodern, rhetoric)
December 12 - The so-called War on Christmas should be relabelled the War on Christendom (Christendom, Donald Trump, secularism, War on Christmas)
December 11 - Conservative Christians Who Pine for Christendom (Christendom, fundamentalism, Michael Brown, political theology, politics, Roy Moore)
December 9 - Is it always wrong for a Christian to buy a brand new $300,000 Ferrari? (consumerism, ethics, legalism)
December 8 - Is it time for a female Jesus? (accommodation, feminism, Jesus Christ)
December 6 - Conservative Christian Bakers, Gay Cakes, and Beyond… (Baker, free market, gay marriage, religious freedom)
December 6 - Making Sense of Gospel and Grace (10 Minute Interview) (interview, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
December 5 - Credibility, Apologetics, and the Ravi Zacharias Case (apologetics, credibility, integrity, Ravi Zacharias, RZIM)
December 3 - Debriefing the Mormon vs. Christian Debate on Unbelievable (apologetics, Justin Brierley, Mormonism, Unbelievable)
December 2 - There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to commit (character formation, Escape from nihilism, ethics, motivated reasoning, virtue)
December 1 - Liars for Atheism? If only… (atheism)
December 1 - Natural Evil and Young Earth Creationism (creationism, evolution, natural evil, problem of evil, theodicy, young earth creationism)
November 29 - Hellrazed? The Book! (eschatology, hell, Hellbound?, Hellrazed, Kevin Miller)
November 28 - The Church as Tabasco Sauce (church, ecclesiology, evangelism, missio Dei, mission, Tabasco sauce)
November 27 - Reflections on Astrophysics and Young Earth Creationism (Aksel Hallin, astrophysics, science, young earth creationism)
November 24 - 100. Evolution and Christian Faith: A Conversation with Denis Lamoureux (Denis Lamoureux, earth science, evolution, Neo-Darwinism)
November 23 - The Ten Minute What’s So Confusing About Grace? Interview (interview, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
November 22 - In Search of Salvation video
November 22 - Apologetics: Why do good apologetic arguments produce bad results?
November 22 - Do all adherents to non-Christian religions go to hell? (exclusivism, inclusivism, salvation, soteriology)
November 20 - Is it wrong for Christians to watch films containing graphic sexual content? (culture, ethics, movies, sexuality)
November 19 - Why do good apologetic arguments produce bad results? (apologetics, argument, persuasion, plausibility structure)
November 17 - Bad Language: A Quick Reply to Michael Brown (bad language, ethics, Michael Brown, Stranger Things, swearing)
November 17 - Why I’m grateful for open theism (even though I’m not an open theist) (open theism, problem of evil, problem of suffering, theology)
November 16 - Can you be prolife and vote for a prochoice politician? (ethics, politics, prochoice, prolife)
November 14 - In Search of Salvation (discipleship, gospel, In Search of Salvation, salvation, soteriology, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
November 11 - Michael Brown defends accused pedophile Roy Moore and I respond
November 11 - My Exchange with a Christian Defender of Roy Moore (Michael Brown, partisanship, Roy Moore)
November 10 - What is the most difficult Christian doctrine to defend? (apologetics, Faith lacking understanding, hell, theology)
November 9 - 99. How do you hear the voice of God? (divine providence, divine will, epistemology, prayer)
November 6 - Does Christianity need a resurrected Jesus? (dialogue, Jesus Christ, liberal Christianity, miracles, resurrection)
November 4 - If God wants us to be saved, why is grace so confusing? (grace, salvation, soteriology, theology, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
November 1 - 98. That All May Be One: An Ecumenical Conversation for Reformation Day (dialogue, ecumenism, interview, Julien Hammond, Roman Catholicism, theology)
October 31 - Ray Comfort’s Fruity Banana Argument for God’s Existence (apologetics, banana argument, natural theology, Ray Comfort)
October 30 - On the claim that believing God exists of necessity is “defining God into existence” (belief, belief in God, modality)
October 30 - An Atheist Defining Theism: The Curious Case of Sean Carroll (God, modality, necessity, Sean Carroll, Unbelievable)
October 28 - New Atheism as a failed exercise in incivility and anti-intellectualism (new atheism)
October 26 - Inerrancy: Still Hazy After All These Years (Bible, biblical inspiration, evangelicalism fundagelicalism, fundamentalism, inerrancy)
October 25 - The Humility of True Leaders (humility, leadership)
October 22 - When Christian fundamentalism is at its ugliest (ethics, fundamentalism)
October 20 - The Storymen Podcast on What’s So Confusing About Grace? (interview, Storymen Podcast, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
October 17 - Which Conversations Will You Sponsor? (debate, dialogue, free speech, young earth creationism)
October 17 - If you don’t debate young earth creationists, are you stifling the debate? (young earth creationism)
October 16 - The Top Five Reasons I didn’t like the Young Earth Creationist on “Unbelievable” (science, Unbelievable, young earth creationism)
October 15 - Conservative Christians find sex and violence offensive. But what about mediocrity? (Christian film, film, Netflix, Pureflix)
October 13 - 97. Redemption and Omar Khadr (ethics, forgiveness, interview, Omar Khadr, redemption, Roy Berkenbosch)
October 12 - Thoughts and Prayers and the Atheist’s Scorn (atheism, evil)
October 10 - I’m Thankful for Old Friends (thanksgiving)
October 8 - Why is it that folks who call themselves “free thinkers” tend to think alike? (free thought)
October 8 - Want to control guns? Change people’s minds (David Frum, gun control, worldview)
October 5 - On Fundamentalism: The Best Thing Alvin Plantinga Ever Wrote (Alvin Plantinga, dialogue, fundamentalism, rhetoric)
October 3 - Pat Robertson identifies lack of respect for Trump as catalyst for Las Vegas Massacre (Donald Trump, fundamentalism, Pat Robertson)
October 3 - Make America Godly Again? (America, holiness, justice, society)
October 2 - What is the case for citizens being able to access (semi) automatic weaponry? (gun control)
October 2 - Would The Message work in an exorcism? (Bible translation, exorcism, The Message)
September 30 - Promiscuous Gay People (ethics, heterosexuality, homosexuality, promiscuity)
September 29 - Help! Let’s kick cancer’s butt together (cancer, fundraiser, Run for the Cure)
September 28 - Alvin Plantinga’s Surprisingly Deflationary Take on his own Ontological Argument (Alvin Plantinga, Justin Brierley, ontological argument, philosophy of religion, theistic proof, Unbelievable)
September 26 - The Provincial Atheist (A.C. Grayling, atheism, naturalism, provincialism)
September 25 - A “Confusing” Dialogue with Dale Tuggy … and more
September 24 - Teetotalism Reconsidered (alcohol, ethics, teetotalism)
September 22 - God, Natural Disasters, and My Next Book (divine action, natural disasters, natural evil)
September 21 - Gender-neutral Pronouns in Grade 5 (ethics, gender, gender politics, sex)
September 20 - Apologetics without the hardcore bit (apologetics, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
September 19 - My Book What’s So Confusing About Grace? is FREE Today (promotion, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
September 18 - Do atheists get their moral values from humanism? (atheism, Christianity, ethics, morality)
September 18 - Is it wrong for First Nations people to refer to non-indigenous people as “settlers”? (discrimination, first nations, racism)
September 17 - My Biggest … and Most Frustrating Publishing Success (Encontre Deus na Cabana, Finding God in the Shack, publishing, royalties)
September 17 - What is wrong with this Ancestry DNA ad? (commercial, DNA, genetics, reductionism)
September 11 - Good Christian song. Bad theology (Christian music, ethics, Margaret Becker, theology)
September 11 - What’s wrong with this atheist meme? (atheism, epistemology, faith, knowledge, meme)
September 8 - God and the Weather Revisited (God, hermeneutics, natural evil, providence, weather)
September 6 - Confusing Grace: The Unfundamentalist Christians Review (review, Unfundamentalist Christians, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
September 5 - Because Jesus would build a wall, that’s why! (Bible, ethics, hermeneutics, immigration)
September 4 - How inhumane would it be to end DACA? (DACA, Dreamers, ethics)
September 3 - Tooting my own horn again… (review, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
September 2 - What is the Trinity? A Review (Dale Tuggy, doctrine, reason, review, theology, Trinity, What is the Trinity?)
September 1 - Ashamed of Jesus? Go to hell
August 31 - Two New Reviews for What’s So Confusing About Grace? (review, theology, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
August 30 - All Saints: A Christian movie for non-fundamentalists (All Saints, Christian movie, movie review, review)
August 30 - The “Nashville Statement”: Three Problems with the Preamble (divorce, ethics, homosexuality, LGBT, The Nashville Statement, transgender)
August 29 - The latest review of What’s So Confusing About Grace? (review, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
August 29 - “I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth…” Could God be punishing Texas? (Bible, hermeneutics, natural evil, problem of evil)
August 27 - On Keeping a Closed Mind: Lessons from The Friendly Atheist (critical thinking, fundamentalism, Hemant Mehta, indoctrination, open mind, steelman, strawman, the Friendly Atheist)
August 25 - Is it technically morally wrong to proselytize for something other than the true religion? (belief, epistemology, rationality)
August 24 - Evangelicalism, Academic Freedom, and Robert Gagnon (academic freedom, evangelicalism, Robert Gagnon)
August 23 - What’s So Confusing About Grace? My Interview with Bob Dutko (Bob Dutko, grace, interview, salvation, soteriology, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
August 23 - Effective Altruism and the Christian: A Conversation with Joshua Parikh (effective altruism, ethics, interview, Josh Parikh)
August 22 - Cross Abuse: One reason you might not want to work for a Christian organization (business culture, cross abuse, NGO, parachurch)
August 20 - Back When Kids Did Things: Lamenting the time before smartphones (childhood, social media)
August 19 - Confused About Grace? Read my new interview with myself (interview, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
August 18 - A Case Where I Spend WAY TOO MUCH Time Analyzing a Snide Atheist Meme (atheism, bullshit, evil, falsification, problem of evil, providence, rhetoric)
August 16 - Against Trump’s Absurd Moral Equivalence Thesis (Donald Trump, racism)
August 15 - What Christians (and everyone else) can learn from Peter Singer: A Review of The Most Good You Can Do (effective altruism, ethics, morality, Peter Singer)
August 11 - Read Chapter 14 of What’s So Confusing About Grace? and find out how to be damned by a cookie (damnation, hell, sin, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
August 10 - Edward Babinski reviews Is the Atheist My Neighbor? (Edward Babinski, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, review)
August 10 - “A fundamentalist radical Christian is just as misguided and frightening as a fundamentalist radical Muslim.” Discuss (Christianity, fundamentalism, Islam, religious violence)
August 9 - Genuine Inquiry vs. Partisan Advocacy: A Couple Comments (apologetics, indoctrination, Jeff Lowder, rhetoric, truth)
August 8 - The Confusing Revelation Objection to Christianity (apologetics, revelation)
August 5 - If this is God’s Word, why isn’t it easier to understand? (Bible, hermeneutics, inspiration)
August 4 - Review Copies of What’s So Confusing About Grace? are Now Available
August 1 - The Latest Review for What’s So Confusing About Grace? (review, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
August 1 - In a Heartbeat: Changing Attitudes among Christians Toward Same Sex Attraction (Bible, biblical ethics, ethics, homosexuality, In a Heartbeat)
July 31 - The Book that’s Bringing People Together (What's So Confusing About Grace?)
July 30 - Saved from Birth?
July 30 - For the umpteenth time, certainty is not the problem (certainty, epistemology, ethics, knowledge)
July 29 - A Review of The Moral Arc Part 3: From Absurdities to Atrocities (ethics, Michael Shermer, review, The Moral Arc, utilitarianism)
July 28 - The Kindle Version of What’s So Confusing About Grace? is Now Available (Kindle, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
July 27 - The First Review for What’s So Confusing About Grace? (review, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
July 26 - Two Days of Right Wing Talk Radio and I’m Depressed (radio, right wing dialogue)
July 26 - My New Book is now Available in Canada (What's So Confusing About Grace?)
July 24 - What’s So Confusing About Grace? The Endorsements (endorsements, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
July 22 - Launching My New Website ConfusedAboutGrace.Com (What's So Confusing About Grace?)
July 20 - What’s So Confusing About Grace? My New Book has Arrived! (What's So Confusing About Grace?)
July 20 - A Review of The Moral Arc Part 2: Reason as Rhetoric (empiricism, humanism, Michael Shermer, review, secularism, The Moral Arc, witches)
July 18 - This is how strange a free market approach to healthcare looks to a Canadian like me (ethics, Good society, healthcare, politics)
July 17 - A Review of The Moral Arc Part 1: Abortion (atheism, Christianity, Enlightenment, humanism, Michael Shermer, secularism)
July 15 - Atheists who celebrate intellectual regression (Dan Barker, fundamentalism, indoctrination, rationality, reason)
July 13 - Christian Bookstores, Eugene Peterson, and Same Sex Marriage (Christian bookstore, curation, Eugene Peterson, LifeWay, same same marriage)
July 13 - Ode to the Corner Store (community, retail)
July 12 - The Title of My New Book (grace, salvation, soteriology, What's So Confusing About Grace?)
July 8 - Unveiling My New Press Imprint (2 Cup Press, self-publishing)
July 7 - Trump in the light of history: A review of On Tyranny (Donald Trump, On Tyranny, review, Timothy Snyder)
July 4 - Can we all get along? (debate, dialogue)
July 3 - I intended to write this article. So much the worse for reductionism. (dualism, intentionality, mental events, philosophy of mind, reductionism)
June 30 - Today I Think of Bob Jyono (Bob Jyono, Catholic Church, Deliver us from Evil, pedophile, problem of evil)
June 28 - The Most Bizarre Rejoinder I Ever Heard From a Christian Fundamentalist (environmentalism, ethics, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, Gnosticism, gospel)
June 26 - False Witness, Lies, Delusions, and Bullshit … and Why the Difference Matters (bullshit, delusion, Donald Trump, lying, truth)
June 24 - Holy Hilarity: A Funny Study of Genesis: A Review (Bible, Genesis, Holy Hilarity, humor, Mark Roncace, review)
June 24 - Islamophobia? Secular Bernie Sanders meets the Conservative Evangelical (Bernie Sanders, Islam, pluralism, salvation, secularism, soteriology, tolerance)
June 22 - Gnu Atheism? Wildebeest and the Problem of Natural Evil (apologetics, natural evil, problem of evil, providence)
June 20 - An Update on My Next Book (book, writing)
June 18 - The Power of the Law of Reciprocity (law of reciprocity)
June 14 - Transgender at the Spa? The Culture War Heats Up (culture war, dialogue, ethics, transgender)
June 13 - How to make yourself feel smarter
June 11 - The Birth of a Nation: A Powerful but Flawed Film (ethics, exegesis, film, hermeneutics, Nat Turner, Nate Parker, review, The Birth of a Nation)
June 9 - Evangelicals, Trump, and the Death of Contrition (contrition, Donald Trump, evangelicalism, Michael Brown)
June 7 - Learning to Speak in Tongues: A Pentecost Sermon
June 7 - Should you get a Philosophy PhD? (academia, employment, humanities, Job, philosophy)
June 6 - Worldviews and “Defending the Truth” (dialogue, worldview)
May 31 - Special Pleading or Therapy? The J. Warner Wallace Dilemma (Amalekites, Bible, ethics, genocide, moral knowledge, Warner Wallace)
May 29 - From Aliens to Meh: A Review of Alien: Covenant (Alien: Covenant, review)
May 29 - Is it wrong for Christians to troll Trump? (Donald Trump, ethics, social commentary, trolling)
May 27 - Do ID theorists have an agenda? And does it matter if they do? (evidence, intelligent design, politics)
May 25 - Intelligent Design Explanations are not Science Stoppers (intelligent design, philosophy of science, science stopper)
May 24 - Cultural Relativism: at least they meant well (cultural relativism, ethics, morality, philosophy)
May 22 - What did Jesus believe about Noah and Lot’s wife? A response to Justin Schieber (hermeneutics, Jesus, Justin Schieber, omniscience)
May 20 - Unbelievable: Justin Brierley’s Book is Landing! (apologetics, Justin Brierley)
May 18 - The Devil Made Him Do It? A look at the conservative Christian defense of Trump (demons, Donald Trump)
May 16 - Exercises in Missing the Point: A Response to Counter Apologist’s Scorched Earth Review (apologetics, Counter Apologist, evidence, faith, knowledge, rationality, review, sermon)
May 14 - Let’s Talk About Sex … and Porn (ethics, Matt Fradd, pornography, sexual ethics, The Porn Myth, Unbelievable)
May 11 - Can divine wrath explain divinely commanded genocide? (biblical ethics, biblical violence, ethics, genocide, Miroslav Volf, Paul Copan)
May 10 - Three Ways Atheists Try to Rise Above the Hoi Polloi (atheism, faith, rationality)
May 9 - My Eyes are Mirrors: A reflection on my dog staring out the window (Elton John, freedom, Skyline Pigeon)
May 7 - Impervious to Reason? On the rhetoric of atheistic fundamentalism (cognitive bias, delusion, faith, fundamentalism, John Loftus, Unapologetic)
May 7 - Did Stephen Colbert Go Too Far? (Donald Trump, Stephen Colbert)
May 5 - Faith, Story, and The Shack Controversy (Faith Today, interview, The Shack)
May 5 - Conservative evangelicals think Donald Trump is the next Constantine (Constantine, Donald Trump, politics)
May 1 - Does Faith Make Sense? A Sermon on Christianity and Evidence (evidence, faith, rationality, sermon)
April 30 - A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing, or the biggest problem with popular Christian apologetics (apologetics, education, indoctrination)
April 29 - Who is Eric Schneider and why is he defaming Bruxy Cavey? (Bruxy Cavey, doctrine, Eric Schneider, heresy, heresy hunting)
April 28 - Charity and Confession: The case of Bruxy Cavey and Tyndale Seminary (Bruxy Cavey, doctrine, orthodoxy, principle of charity, Tyndale Seminary)
April 26 - Universalism, Evangelicalism, and The Shack (Christian mind, evangelicalism, heresy, The Shack, universalism)
April 26 - An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a (Coffee) Bar: The Brew Podcast (Drake De Long-Farmer, interview, Justin Schieber, podcast)
April 25 - Universalism for Evangelicals? A Review of Heaven’s Doors (George Sarris, Heaven's Doors, review, soteriology, universalism)
April 23 - Teaching the Controversy on Earth Day? (Bill Nye, climate change, CNN, Earth Day, global warming, propaganda)
April 21 - Strange Revelations I’ve Received in the Mail (Part 2) (rationality, revelation)
April 21 - Strange Revelations I’ve Received in the Mail (Part 1) (Bible, revelation, Warren Jeffs)
April 14 - And Now for Something Completely Different: The Outline of My New Book
April 11 - What are Human Rights Based On? A Response to Andy Bannister (Andy Bannister, anthropology, atheism, existentialism, humanism, meaning, Unbelievable)
April 8 - The Bible as God’s Anthology (Bible, hermeneutics, inspiration, Norton Anthology of American Literature, revelation)
April 7 - How I’ll Know When I’m Ready For Heaven (Hint: it has to do with dog turds) (ethics, heaven, holiness, sanctification, self-sacrifice)
April 5 - This is Not Normal: The Importance of Satire in the Age of Donald Trump (Donald Trump, media, politics, satire)
April 1 - Will Jesus Return in 1988? (dispensationalism, eschatology, rapture, second coming)
March 31 - To Shun or Not to Shun: That is the Question (Bible, biblical ethics, Church discipline, ecclesiology, ethics, Paul, shunning)
March 29 - How the atheist rhetoric of “reason” undermines reason (atheism, freethought, indoctrination, reason, rhetoric, secularism)
March 28 - The Conditional Premiss of the Moral Argument – Peoples, Rauser, Hannestad, Moore
March 28 - {UN}APOLOGETIC Interview
March 28 - Evangelical and Atheist Communities: Closer than you might think (atheism, community, culture, evangelicalism, humanism, skepticism)
March 25 - The Moral Argument: A Discussion and Debate (apologetics, Capturing Christianity, moral argument)
March 23 - Does God exploit individuals for the benefit of others? (ethics, exploitation, God, providence)
March 22 - Apologetic Dialogue Today: A Discussion on The Brew Podcast (apologetics, Drake De Long-Farmer)
March 21 - Atheism in Arizona: Debriefing the Book Tour (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, Arizona, atheism, book tour, freethought, Justin Schieber)
March 17 - On accusing a brother or sister in Christ of heresy (Christian charity, heresy, orthodoxy)
March 16 - Justin Schieber and Randal Rauser at Sherwood Park Alliance Church
March 15 - Rauser v. Schieber-The 2017 Debate (apologetics, atheism, debate, dialogue, Justin Schieber, Randal Rauser, theism)
March 14 - An Atheist and a Christian in Church (atheism, dialogue, Justin Schieber, Randal Rauser)
March 13 - Should people have the freedom not to have medical coverage? (libertarianism, medical coverage, Republican)
March 9 - “That’s Not Biblical”: Three Scary Words for any Evangelical to Hear (Bible, biblicism, dialogue, evangelicalism)
March 6 - C.A.N.C.E.R. (Architects, cancer, suffering)
March 6 - An Atheist and a Christian Debate and then Walk into Two Churches This Weekend! (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, apologetics, debate, dialogue, Justin Schieber)
March 5 - Doing right because … it feels good? (atheism, ethics, theism)
March 3 - To See or Not to See The Shack Movie: That is the Question (idolatry, The Shack, Tim Challies)
March 2 - An Atheist and a Christian Do a Ten Minute Interview (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, apologetics, atheism, interview, Justin Schieber)
March 1 - Would you advise an abused wife to divorce her husband? (divorce, ethics)
March 1 - An Invitation to My Edmonton Debate/Dialogue with Justin Schieber (atheism, debate, Edmonton, Justin Schieber)
February 27 - The Hiddenness of God: Thoughts on the Giunta-Schieber Debate (apologetics, argument from divine hiddenness, atheism, Blake Giunta, divine hiddenness, J.L. Schellenberg, Justin Schieber, problem of evil)
February 24 - A Christian/Atheist Dialogue in Church (atheism, debate, dialogue, Justin Schieber, theism)
February 24 - Today I finished the penultimate draft of my next book
February 21 - On Praying for Milo (Dead Man Walking, ethics, evil, forgiveness, Milo Yiannopoulos, pedophilia, prayer, sin)
February 20 - Being the Right Kind of Fool for Christ Ain’t Easy (church, culture, discipleship, evangelism, Jesus Christ, witness)
February 18 - Even if theism may be rationally justified, can the same be said of a specific religion? (atheism, Christianity, Counter Apologist, rationality, skepticism)
February 14 - Gotcha! The Worst Part of Debates (Dan Barker, debate, ethics, gotcha)
February 11 - Would God Necessarily Create Perfect Creatures? The Rauser/Schieber Debate (atheism, debate, Justin Schieber, perfect creatures, theism)
February 8 - How Skeptical Theism Justifies Religious Doubt: A Response to Rauser (epistemology, Jason Thibodeau, skeptical theism, skepticism)
February 7 - An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Book Tour (sort of) (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, book tour, debate, Justin Schieber)
February 6 - Contributing to a new political blog (Donald Trump, Opposing Trump, politics)
February 3 - The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: A Review (Abby Hafer, creationism, Darwin, Discovery Institute, evolution, intelligent design, Neo-Darwinism, review)
January 31 - Transgender Boy Scouts: A Crazy Idea? (boy scouts, ethics, Russell Moore, transgender)
January 30 - Skeptical Theism and Skepticism Simpliciter: A Response to Jason Thibodeau (apologetics, Jason Thibodeau, problem of evil, skeptical theism, skepticism)
January 26 - Elective abortion as the right to kill your children (abortion, bioethics, ethics)
January 24 - Responding to Four Popular Arguments for Atheism (apologetics, interview, Matt Fradd, Pints with Aquinas)
January 24 - If it’s okay for God to allow horrors, then we don’t know much about God (Part 2) (ethics, God, Jason Thibodeau, problem of evil, skeptical theism, skepticism)
January 22 - If it’s okay for God to allow horrors, then we don’t know much about God (Part 1) (ethics, God, Jason Thibodeau, problem of evil, skepticism)
January 21 - The Ethical Principle Behind #NotMyPresident (Donald Trump, ethics, misogyny, sexual predator)
January 19 - “You’re an atheist with respect to every other God. I just go one God further”: A Brief Reply (apologetics, atheism)
January 18 - God, Evolution, and Creation: A Short Interview (Darwinism, doubt, evolution, interview, Todd Petkau)
January 16 - Does the hostility of the universe toward life support atheism? (interview, Justin Schieber, Serious Inquiries Only Podcast)
January 15 - Faith That’s Not Blind: A Review (apologetics, Faith that's Not Blind, J. Steve Miller, philosophy of religion, review)
January 14 - Does doctrinal agreement constitute evidence against God’s existence? (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, apologetics, interview, Justin Brierley, Justin Schieber)
January 12 - Some Unbelievable Reflections (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, apologetics, Justin Brierley, Justin Schieber, religious disagreement, Unbelievable)
January 10 - Bad Atheist Memes: God, Sexuality, and Bacteria (atheism, meme, sexuality)
January 10 - Who are the Hollywood Elites? (dialogue, Hollywood elites, rhetoric)
January 9 - I feel love. It’s about love: Still Alice as Theodicy (Alzheimer's Disease, dementia, God, natural evil, problem of evil, Still Alice, theodicy)
January 6 - On Rejecting Expert Consensus: Don’t Blame Donald Trump (Donald Trump, knowledge, rationality, social epistemology, testimony)
January 5 - Enter to Win a Free Copy of An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar
January 5 - Congratulations to Jeff Lowder for Posting the 80,000th Comment at My Blog! (blog, comments, Jeff Lowder)
January 4 - Naturalism or Theism? A Review of The Lowder-Turek Debate (apologetics, atheism, debate, Frank Turek, Jeff Lowder, theism)
January 3 - How to pick a church: Advice from Eugene Peterson (church, Eugene Peterson)
January 3 - Do imperfect creatures count against God? (apologetics, atheism, Justin Schieber, Strange Notions)
January 1 - The Best Movies of 2016 You Probably Haven’t Heard Of (movies, popular culture, review, zombie)

2016

December 31 - Secular Intolerance: Evaluating the Principles of the Oasis Network Part 1 (dogma, Oasis Network, secularism)
December 30 - Finding her Oasis: Gretta Vosper and secular intolerance (atheism, Gretta Vosper, Oasis Network, secularism)
December 29 - Randal and Justin Debate on Line of Fire with Michael Brown
December 28 - Gender and Sexuality Any Damn Way You Please? (ethics, LGBT, sexual ethics)
December 27 - Gleason: A Review (ALS, documentary, movie review, problem of evil, Steve Gleason)
December 24 - A Journey Through Christmas Posts Past (Christmas)
December 23 - Mock beliefs, not people, Revisited (dialogue, ethics, free society, mockery)
December 23 - An Atheist and a Christian on Bob Dutko’s Show (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, Bob Dutko, interview, Justin Schieber)
December 22 - God and Answered Prayer: A response to Justin Schieber (Justin Schieber, prayer, problem of evil, providence)
December 21 - On not having enough faith to be an atheist (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, faith, theism)
December 21 - Are you (ever) embarrassed to be human? (Grayson Smith, hamartiology, humanity, internet, sin)
December 20 - God sacrificed himself to himself, blah blah blah (atonement, village atheism)
December 20 - On Scientific (and Philosophical and Theological) Ignorance (epistemology, philosophy, science, theology)
December 19 - Omran and the Angels of Aleppo (ethics, Kingdom of God, social justice, Syria, White Helmets)
December 17 - An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Podcast (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, interview, Justin Schieber, Storymen Podcast)
December 16 - Milestones without God: An interview with Secular Celebrant Galen Broaddus (atheism, CFI, Galen Broaddus, secular celebrant, secularism)
December 15 - Top 30 Atheist Blogs (according to Feedspot) (atheism, blog, Feedpost, Tentative Apologist)
December 15 - Sending Out Christmas Curses (Christmas, curse, imprecatory psalms, satire)
December 14 - Somebody Goofed comes alive: Fundamentalism like you’ve never seen it before (evangelism, fundamentalism, Jack Chick, salvation, tract)
December 13 - On Getting a Review Copy of An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, review copy)
December 13 - If Jesus had been sent to the gallows: On the felicitous outcome of attempted sacrilege (atheism, atonement, cross, scandal, soteriology)
December 10 - God, Serial Killers, and Natural Evil (divine action, God, natural disaster, prayer, problem of evil, Stephen Law)
December 10 - Politically Incorrect Roadside Signs (ethics, political correctness, racism)
December 8 - These Folks Are My Kind of Christians (Praynksters)
December 8 - Everyday Miracle, or A Divine Sign in Douala (Bill Muller, divine sign, miracle, providence)
December 7 - Two Atheists (both friendly), One Theist, and a Discussion of Religion and Violence (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, Justin Schieber, religious violence)
December 6 - An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar is Shipping! (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar)
December 6 - An Atheist, a Christian, a Bar, and Mike D’s Concluding Thoughts (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into Bar, Mike D, review)
December 5 - An Interview on Atheist/Christian Dialogue (dialogue, Galen Broaddus, interview, Justin Schieber)
December 5 - An Atheist and a Christian Dialogue Review of An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, Dan Wilkinson, Justin Schieber, review)
December 5 - Notes on the David Wood-Michael Shermer Debate (apologetics, atheism, David Wood, debate, Michael Shermer)
December 3 - The Trailer for The Shack
December 3 - Life is a Highway: Dreams of the Free Thinker (atheism, Bill Clinton, free thought, secularism)
December 2 - Big news on An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, apologetics, atheism, Justin Schieber, theism)
December 1 - Village Atheism and Appalachian Snake Handlers (Appalachian Snake Handlers, village atheism)
December 1 - The Shack on the Silver Screen (Christian movie, Finding God in the Shack, The Shack, William Paul Young)
November 28 - Do average Christians believe in the God of classical theism? (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, classical theism, God, Justin Schieber)
November 27 - Responding to John Loftus’ attack on my co-author Justin Schieber (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, debate, dialogue, John Loftus, Justin Schieber)
November 26 - When will the millennials realize that Goodwill beats the mall? (consumerism, Goodwill, millennials, shopping)
November 26 - Two Early Reviews for An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, John Loftus, Mike D, review)
November 23 - A Child Dying of Cancer Should Change Us All (cancer, moral formation, natural evil, problem of suffering)
November 22 - An Atheist and a Christian in a Commercial (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, commercial, Justin Schieber)
November 22 - Is the Atheist My Neighbor? reviewed in “The Humanist” (Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, review, Sincere Kirabo, The Humanist)
November 21 - Should Christians be afraid of Islam? (Christianity, culture, Enlightenment, Islam, political theology, religious tolerance)
November 20 - Why Roger Ebert could have given God’s not Dead 2 Four Stars (culture war, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, God's not Dead 2, movie, propaganda, review)
November 19 - An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar … and two guys wrote a book about it (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, apologetics, dialogue, Justin Schieber, philosophy of religion)
November 18 - Fairyology vs. Goo: Atheists and Christians in Conversation (atheism, Del Tackett, dialogue, principle of charity, theism)
November 16 - Arrival: A Review (alien, Amy Adams, Arrival, Denis Villeneuve, review, science fiction)
November 15 - Blood Coming Out of Her Wherever: On Donald Trump’s misogynistic war (culture, Donald Trump, feminism, misogyny, sexism, shifting baselines)
November 14 - The Oft-Overlooked Sins of Omission (ethics, genocide, guilt, repentance, sin)
November 13 - Trump: The Christian Conservative Case for Civil Disobedience (Donald Trump, ethics, health care, justice, Michael Brown, Obamacare)
November 11 - God Bless the Peaceful Protesters (democracy, ethics, Michael Brown, protest)
November 10 - How to Pray for President Trump (blessing, Donald Trump, prayer, providence)
November 8 - Are missionaries unwittingly spreading damnation? (apologetics, damnation, ethics, evangelism)
November 6 - Being a Baptist on Reformation Day (Baptist, Catholicism, dialogue, ecumenism, Lutheranism, Reformation, theology)
November 5 - Sodden Dead Flies: How a bad experience at church can have long-term effects (church, ecclesiology)
November 4 - More than half of American Christians are now gay-affirming (biblical ethics, ethics, evangelicalism, homosexuality, LGBT)
November 3 - On Being Sorry for the Iraq War
November 2 - You can’t make America great again because it is now better than it ever was (Donald Trump, ethics, Make America great again, politics, society)
October 29 - Is the human species sufficiently unimpressive that it supports naturalism over theism? (apologetics, atheism, humanity, naturalism, Paul Draper, theism)
October 27 - What does gay marriage have to do with packing Christmas boxes? (ethics, evangelicalism, gay marriage, homosexuality, Samaritan's Purse, sexual ethics, theology)
October 26 - Lights Out: A Review (horror, Lights Out, movie review)
October 26 - The rhetorical indulgences of some Christian testimonies (rhetoric, testimony)
October 25 - Which is a bigger threat to the church: homosexuality or greed? (biblical ethics, ethics, greed, homosexuality, New Testament, sexual ethics)
October 23 - It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown reaches 50! Some reflections (Charlie Brown, epistemology, existentialism, religious belief)
October 20 - Jesus vs. the Volcano: How Christians disagree on atonement and why it matters (atonement, christology, penal substitution, soteriology)
October 19 - Watching Borrowed Time (animation, grief, guilt, Pixar)
October 18 - The depth of current atonement debates in a tweet (atonement, Brian Zahnd, christology, Jesus Christ, soteriology)
October 17 - How evangelical kids can get their faith shaken on the first day of university (atheism, evangelicalism, skepticism)
October 14 - Stephen Law’s Evil God Challenge. In Under Four Minutes. With Animation. And my response. (atheism, evil god, humanism, Stephen Law)
October 12 - Calvinism and the Problem of Evil: A Review (arminianism, Calvinism, problem of evil, providence, review, theodicy)
October 12 - The Fight over the Fetus: Abortion, Ethics, and Politics (abortion, bioethics, ethics, Hemant Mehta, Hillary Clinton, Norman Geisler, politics)
October 10 - Wayne Grudem retracts his Trump endorsement … but why’d he give it in the first place? (Donald Trump, ethics, evangelicalism, Wayne Grudem)
October 9 - The First Review for An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar
October 9 - Stephen Colbert, Paul Ryan, and their subtly sexist critiques of Donald Trump (Donald Trump, misogyny, Paul Ryan, sexism, Stephen Colbert)
October 8 - Thanks to Donald Trump I will no longer call myself an evangelical (Donald Trump, evangelicalism, gospel)
October 7 - Swinburne and Homosexuality: A Response to Jason Thibodeau (dialogue, ethics, homosexuality, Jason Thibodeau, natural law, Richard Swinburne)
October 5 - Homosexuality, Academic Freedom, and the Swinburne Controversy (ethics, homosexuality, political correctness, Richard Swinburne)
October 4 - When you can’t believe, the church can do it for you (church, doubt, ecclesiology, faith, Krista Tippett, Nadia Bolz-Weber)
October 3 - Ran for the Cure 2016
September 30 - Move Over Jesus, Here Comes Donald Trump (Donald Trump, evangelicalism, idolatry)
September 30 - The Problem of Evil Explained in terms of Belgian Strong Dark Ale (beer, problem of evil)
September 29 - The Irrationality of Conversion: Christianity and Atheism compared (atheism, conversion, rationality, skepticism, theism)
September 28 - Why shouldn’t I just kill myself? A physicist replies (Brian Greene, existentialism, Krista Tippett, nihilism, suicide)
September 27 - Still Further Thoughts on Christian Atheism (Christian atheism, dialogue, Gretta Vosper, liberal Christianity, secularism)
September 27 - Further Thoughts on Christian Atheism (Christian atheism, dialogue, Gretta Vosper, liberal Christianity, orthodoxy)
September 26 - Are Christian denominations permitted to expect theism of their ministers? (atheism, dialogue, Gretta Vosper, religious freedom)
September 26 - If you appreciate my blog, please make a donation to fight cancer (cancer, fundraising, Run for the Cure)
September 25 - Is the Christian minister Gretta Vosper being persecuted just because she’s an atheist? (atheism, Gretta Vosper, persecution, religious dialogue)
September 24 - Why you can’t say the total evidence supports (or does not support) Christianity (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, evidence)
September 23 - On Rota’s Wager: Pascal and epistemic virtue (apologetics, Dale Tuggy, epistemology, Michael Rota, Pascal's wager, philosophy of religion)
September 22 - “There is no evidence for…” On the unqualified and indefensible claims of bad apologists (apologetics, evolution, historical Jesus, science, Victor Stenger)
September 21 - The Best Religious Joke Ever isn’t About Religion (and why that matters) (atheism, Emo Philips, humor, religion)
September 20 - Atheist apologists who dislike apologetics (apologetics, atheism)
September 19 - That’s Why We Love Unbelievable: Two impressive moments from the latest show (apologetics, cosmic fine-tuning, Jeff Zweerink, Justin Brierley, multiverse)
September 18 - Christian apologists need to lead by example and stop caricaturing their opponents (Andy Bannister, apologetics, atheism, polemics, worldview)
September 17 - Sports, violence, and irrational secularists (atheism, religion, religious violence, skepticism, violence)
September 16 - Does religion cause violence? (religion, violence)
September 16 - The Fallacy of Charitable Interpretation (charitable interpretation fallacy, comedy, principle of charity, Ricky Gervais)
September 16 - Haha. Imagine that. (atheism, incredulity, religion, religious violence, Ricky Gervais, skepticism)
September 14 - Jesus meets Mike Pence (ethics, Jesus, Mike Pence, refugee)
September 14 - Goddidit and Golden Hammers (Goddidit, Golden Hammer, rhetoric, skepticism)
September 14 - How do you defend the Bible to those who dismiss it as the product of savage minds? (Bible, inspiration, revelation, Richard Dawkins)
September 13 - Should Protestants accept the Deuterocanon? (Apocrypha, Bible, bibliology, canon, Deuterocanon, inspiration)
September 12 - Should additions to the biblical texts be treated as canon? (Bible, canon, inspiration, textual criticism)
September 11 - An Atheist and a Christian Walk Into a Bar: The Table of Contents Revealed! (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, apologetics, atheism, Justin Schieber, Table of Contents)
September 10 - How the British Humanist Association Promotes Propaganda (atheism, British Humanist Association, epistemology, humanism, indoctrination, naturalism, propaganda, scientism)
September 9 - Is there a better way to know than science? (epistemology, knowledge, science, scientism)
September 8 - How the British Humanist Association undermines Humanism (atheism, British Humanist Association, epistemology, humanism)
September 7 - Do Calvinists and Arminians worship the same God? (arminianism, Calvinism, Christianity, Islam, philosophy of language, pluralism, religious dialogue, William Lane Craig)
September 3 - The Irony of the Critique: A Response to Richard Carrier (atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, review, Richard Carrier)
September 1 - The Imprecatory Psalms at Daylight Church
August 31 - How to Hate Your Enemies: A Sermon (curses, imprecatory psalms, sermon)
August 30 - No, he didn’t think of you “above all”: Or, the hubris of popular Christian piety (anthropocentrism, evangelicalism, narcissism, piety)
August 30 - Don’t try to redeem immoral practices by appealing to culture (bull-fighting, culture, ethics)
August 29 - The Question that Never Goes Away: A Review (pastoral theology, Philip Yancey, problem of evil, providence, theodicy)
August 29 - Evangelicals love Trump (or hate Hillary … or both) (Donald Trump, evangelicalism)
August 27 - On Donald Trump: Pity the psychopath, but don’t vote for him (Donald Trump, psychopathy)
August 26 - On those who call for an end to philosophy of religion (atheism, John Loftus, philosophy of religion, theism)
August 25 - New endorsements for An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, blurb, endorsement)
August 24 - Unveiling the New Tentative Apologist Logo (and its retro roots) (80s, culture, Escape from New York, John Carpenter, pop culture, Stranger Things)
August 22 - Belief in God as Properly Basic? The Debate Continues (epistemology, God, properly basic, Stephen Law, Tyler McNabb, Unbelievable)
August 21 - The Sobering Case of a Serial Plagiarist (Martin Stone, plagiarism)
August 20 - Richard Carrier reviews Is the Atheist My Neighbor? (Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, review, Richard Carrier)
August 18 - I am Evel Knievel: A Review (Evel Knievel, I am Evel Knievel, review)
August 17 - Dan Fincke endorses An Atheist and a Christian Walk Into a Bar (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, blurb, Dan Fincke, endorsement, Justin Schieber)
August 17 - On God and Volcanoes (atheism, Krakatoa, plate tectonics, science, scientism, Simon Winchester, volcanoes)
August 16 - A Conversation with Atheist/Humanist Blogger Sincere Kirabo (atheism, dialogue, humanism, Sincere Kirabo)
August 15 - Doubters and Questioners (Cormac McCarthy, doubt, existentialism, Sunset Limited)
August 13 - On the Use of People to Benefit Other People: A response to Jason Thibodeau (atheism, divine hiddenness, doubt, Jason Thibodeau, skepticism)
August 11 - On Divine Hiddenness: J.L. Schellenberg Responds to My Review (atheism, divine hiddenness, John Schellenberg, philosophy of religion, theism)
August 9 - Fundamentalism sells … and moderation is a voice crying in the wilderness (atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Michael Brown, Ray Comfort, Rebellion Thesis)
August 7 - The Hiddenness Argument Revealed: A Review (apologetics, argument from divine hiddenness, atheism, divine hiddenness, J.L. Schellenberg, philosophy of religion, problem of evil, review, theism)
August 5 - What would Jesus say to Caitlyn Jenner? (Caitlyn Jenner, Christianity, ethics, LGBT, transgender)
August 5 - Mystics, Skeptics, and Nothing Buttery (Donald MacKay, idealism, mysticism, nothing buttery, Oliver Sacks, reductionism, science, skepticism)
August 3 - The Top Five Reasons Millennials Are Leaving The Evangelical Church (According to ME) (evangelicalism, millennials)
August 3 - The First Blurb for An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, blurb, Trent Horn)
August 1 - Donald Trump declares his power over the past, can prevent Russia from entering Ukraine (Donald Trump, satire)
August 1 - The Problem of Evil and Mindfulness (apologetics, C.S. Lewis, Chris Burkard, mindfulness, problem of evil)
July 29 - Wayne Grudem’s Endorsement of Donald Trump and the Moral Bankruptcy of Evangelicalism (Donald Trump, ethics, evangelicalism, theology, Wayne Grudem)
July 29 - A Bully for President? (Bully, Donald Trump)
July 28 - Share Your Candidate for the Best Argument Against Christianity (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, defeaters, skepticism)
July 24 - Can a person be a fundamentalist about atheism? (atheism, fundamentalism, John Loftus, reason)
July 22 - Keith Olbermann argues that Donald Trump is a psychopath (but we already knew that) (Donald Drumpf, Donald Trump, Keith Olbermann, psychopathy)
July 22 - The Republican Road to Hell (demagogue, Donald Drumpf, Donald Trump, Republican)
July 22 - Atheist Fundamentalism Lives (atheism, fundamentalism, John Loftus, Peter Boghossian)
July 21 - Ted Cruz Behaving Badly? Ms. Manners vs. Moral Obligations (Donald Trump, ethics, moral obligation, politics, Ted Cruz)
July 21 - Ted Cruz’s Five Most Beautiful and Powerful (but very UnChristian) Words (civil religion, freedom, politics, Ted Cruz)
July 19 - He is Not Your Guru: A Review of I am Not Your Guru (documentary, I am not your Guru, review, Tony Robbins)
July 18 - The Ethical Problem of Vegetarian Cannibal Burgers (ethics, vegetarianism)
July 17 - Have a question about God? Ask the scientist! (science, scientism)
July 16 - We’re not laying pipe! We’re talking about poetry. (knowledge, science, scientism)
July 15 - On Stoning the Children (biblical violence, Deuteronomy, Eugene Merrill, stoning)
July 15 - Godless of the Gaps (atheism, Dan Barker, God of the gaps, theism)
July 13 - God of the Gaps and Mind of the Gaps (atheism, Dan Barker, God of the gaps, reductionism)
July 13 - Do theists need a proof for God to be rational? A response to Dan Barker (atheism, Dan Barker, epistemology, evidence, faith, reason, theism)
July 12 - And Now for a Word From Banksy (Banksy, peace, social justice)
July 11 - All Lives Matter. But Black Lives Still Matter. (Black lives matter, prejudice, social justice)
July 10 - Credulity at the Skeptic Convention (skepticism)
July 10 - Sabbatical and Public Speaking
July 9 - On reading a few sentences of Dan Barker’s Godless (apologetics, atheism, Dan Barker, Godless, polemics, skepticism)
July 8 - Ken Humphreys’ strange prejudice against the Bible (Jesus Mythicism, Justin Brierley, Ken Humphreys, Sean McDowell, Unbelievable)
July 8 - Andy Bannister on God, Human Beings, and Intrinsic Value (Andy Bannister, atheism, God, meaning, theism, value)
July 6 - Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy is living history … in the worst kind of way (demagoguery, Donald Trump, politics)
July 5 - Faith is Irrational: Reflections on the Worst Arguments Against Christianity (Part 5) (apologetics, atheism, faith, Peter Boghossian, reason, skepticism)
July 2 - Humanism, Christianity, and Human Dignity (Andy Bannister, anthropology, Christianity, ethics, humanism, image of God, metaphysics)
July 1 - 75,000 Comments (and then some) (blog)
July 1 - Religious Fanatics (fanaticism, fundamentalism, Noam Chomsky, religion)
June 30 - I just believe in one less god than you: Reflections on the Worst Arguments Against Christianity (Part 4) (apologetics, atheism, ethics, theism)
June 28 - Fetus as Parasite? A disturbing trend in pro-choice rhetoric (abortion, bioethics, ethics, pro-choice, pro-life, rhetoric)
June 27 - The Bottom Feeders in Academic Publishing (publishing mill, VDM)
June 27 - Another reason to be disgusted by politicians (Donald Trump, ethics, Machiavelli, politics)
June 27 - Divine Violence and the Church: Is Joshua Ryan Butler’s answer sufficient? (Bible, biblical violence, Brian Zahnd, divine violence, Joshua Ryan Butler, Justin Brierley)
June 25 - On the Prolife rationale behind showing aborted fetuses (abortion, ethics, prolife)
June 24 - The Cover for An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, atheism, Justin Schieber)
June 24 - You are insignificant; therefore, God doesn’t exist: Reflections on the Worst Arguments Against Christianity (Part 3) (apologetics, existentialism, LSD, meaning, skepticism, undercutting defeater)
June 23 - Jesus Mythicism: Reflections on the Worst Arguments Against Christianity (Part 2) (apologetics, Bible, Jesus Mythicism, Raphael Lataster, Richard Carrier)
June 22 - Dawkins’ Central Argument: Reflections on the Worst Arguments Against Christianity (Part 1) (apologetics, atheism, design argument, Richard Dawkins)
June 21 - Share Your Candidate for the Worst Argument Against Christianity (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, defeaters)
June 20 - A Review of OJ: Made in America (crime, documentary, O.J.: Made in America, review)
June 19 - Cursing the Killer: On Praying the Imprecatory Psalms (biblical violence, curse, evil, forgiveness, God, imprecatory psalm, problem of evil, sermon)
June 18 - Is right action more important than right belief? (ethics, orthodoxy, orthopraxis)
June 18 - 96. Those Without Religion: Cory Seibel on the Nones (agnosticism, atheism, Cory Seibel, nones, religious skepticism, spirituality)
June 12 - The Trent Horn – Raphael Lataster Debate (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, debate, Raphael Lataster, theism, Trent Horn)
June 10 - Update on An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, apologetics, atheism, debate, Justin Schieber)
June 9 - Emotions as a way to moral reflection and theological truth (evangelicalism, moral epistemology, moral intuition, parable, Prodigal Son, revelation)
June 8 - The most blatant case of a company man apologist (apologetics, company man, Jeffrey Lord)
June 6 - The Pastafarians have infiltrated my daughter’s school (atheism, Flying Spaghetti Monster, parody, Pastafarian, religion, satire)
June 6 - Muhammad Ali on the contrast between Islam and Christianity (Christianity, Islam, Muhammad Ali)
June 3 - Speaking in Louisville (public speaking)
June 2 - Does God demand love under threat of damnation? (apologetics, God, heaven, hell, theodicy, theology)
June 2 - 95. The Problem of God-Breathed Violence (Bible, biblical violence, hermeneutics, inspiration, theodicy)
June 1 - TWU Today Archives Part 6: Would Jesus smoke a doobie? (cannabis, culture, discipleship, ethics, Jesus, marijuana)
May 31 - TWU Today Archives Part 5: The mixed fruit of Charismatic Christianity (Charismatic Christianity, Pentecostal, revival, Toronto Blessing)
May 30 - If atheists are offended by a theodicy, does that give them a right to be rude? (apologetics, atheism, debate, discourse, Golden Rule, public square, theodicy)
May 29 - The complex ethical problem of the Mega-Church (church, consumerism, ecclesiology, ecumenism, mission)
May 28 - TWU Today Archives Part 4: A Plea Against Evangelical Kitsch (bumper stickers, evangelicalism, evangelism, kitsch, popular culture)
May 26 - God and the Problem of Suffering: An Interview with Paul Buller (apologetics, evil, interview, Paul Buller, problem of evil, suffering, theodicy, theology)
May 25 - A plea for a greener evangelicalism (Christianity, doctrine of creation, environmentalism, ethics, evangelicalism, stewardship)
May 25 - TWU Today Archives Part 3: My first apologetics article ever in which I demolish scientism! (Not really.) (apologetics, atheism, scientism, secularism, TWU)
May 24 - Confession: A Sermon (confession, sermon)
May 23 - Why John Sanders won the Unbelievable Debate on Open Theism and Heresy (Calvinism, doctrine, heresy, James White, John Sanders, Justin Brierley, open theism, orthodoxy, providence, Unbelievable)
May 22 - TWU Today Archives Part 2: A Defense of Annihilationism (annihilationism, eschatology, eternal conscious torment, hell)
May 22 - TWU Today Archives Part 1: The Bike Shed Blunder (autobiography, Intruder, TWU)
May 20 - 94. For those who doubt, this book’s for you: Bill Anderson on Ecclesiastes (Bible, Bill Anderson, Ecclesiastes, existentialism, interview, philosophy)
May 20 - On visiting Alcoholics Anonymous. A lesson for the church? (church, ecclesiology, missio Dei, mission)
May 18 - A simple thought experiment to show that the world is getting better (ethics, premillennialism)
May 16 - Many Christians think the world is getting worse. Are they right? (culture, ethics, society)
May 14 - Understand Why You Believe? The Problem of Confabulation (apologetics, confabulation, rationality, reason)
May 14 - A Quick Review of the Gagnon-Kirk Debate on Homosexuality (Bible, biblical ethics, Daniel Kirk, ethics, homosexuality, Robert Gagnon, sexual ethics)
May 12 - The Apologist Who Wrote About the Atheist Who Didn’t Exist: My Interview with Andy Bannister (Andy Bannister, apologetics, Bold Cup of Coffee, interview)
May 11 - An Evening of Christianity and Islam in Dialogue (Andy Bannister, Christianity, Imam Sherif Ayoup, Islam, religious dialogue)
May 10 - Violent readings of the Bible and Defending the Indefensible (Bible, biblical ethics, ethics, violence)
May 10 - 93. Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God? A conversation with Andy Bannister (Andy Bannister, apologetics, interview, Islam, Larycia Hawkins, theology)
May 7 - Two Conferences, One Busy Week (atheism, conference, homosexuality, transgender)
May 2 - The Trump Bible (David Marshall, Donald Drumpf, Donald Trump, politics)
April 29 - Gamora, Peter Quill and the Ethics of Human/Alien Romance (aliens, District 9, ethics, Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy, Peter Quill)
April 27 - Should we shun Christians that we believe are living an immoral life? (Apostle Paul, biblical ethics, Church discipline, ecclesiology, ethics, homosexuality, shunning)
April 25 - Christianity and Islam: A Bold Cup Conversation (Andy Bannister, Bold Cup of Coffee, Christianity, Drake De Long-Farmer, interview, Islam, religious dialogue)
April 22 - 92. God is everywhere: James Gordon on Divine Omnipresence (Analytic theology, classical theism, interview, James Gordon, omnipresence, philosophy, systematic theology)
April 20 - The Problem with Hell in One Cartoon (cartoon, eternal conscious torment, hell, punitive punishment, retributive justice, The Far Side)
April 17 - Thoughts on Certainty: The Evangelical Leader and the Liberal Bishop (Part 2) (certainty, doubt, epistemology, evangelical, liberal)
April 15 - When did common sense become victim blaming? A vote for John Kasich (DNC, ethics, John Kasich, sexism)
April 15 - Thoughts on the Evangelical Leader and the Liberal Bishop (Part 1) (Dave Tomlinson, doctrine, emergent Christianity, evangelicalism, liberalism, post-evangelicalism, postliberalism)
April 13 - 91. Andy Bannister on Atheism, Morality, and the Meaning of Life (Andy Bannister, atheism, Euthyphro dilemma, existentialism, God, meaning, morality, theism)
April 12 - God or Godless has arrived in Korean translation (God or Godless, Korean, translation)
April 10 - A busy weekend of dialogue on Islam and atheism (Andy Bannister, atheism, Bold Cup of Coffee, dialogue, Drake De Long-Farmer, Imam Sherif Ayoup, Islam)
April 8 - Should a Christian support a pro-choice candidate? Should a Christian support a pro-torture candidate? (abortion, democracy, Democracy Now, Eric Fair, pro-choice, pro-life, Ted Cruz, torture)
April 6 - The Gospel in the lungs of a Las Vegas street preacher (evangelism, Las Vegas, street preachers)
April 4 - 90. Apologetics Today: A Conversation with Tawa Anderson (apologetics, Christianity, skepticism, Tawa Anderson)
April 3 - On helping the poor (ethics, Golden Rule)
April 2 - Thoughts on Being at the Center of Everything (cosmos, Phil Plait, universe)
March 30 - The A-Unicornist reviews Is the Atheist My Neighbor? (atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Rebellion Thesis, The A-Unicornist)
March 30 - Irrational? Faith from Ignatius of Loyola to Carl Sagan (Carl Sagan, faith, Ignatius of Loyola, new atheism, reason, Richard Lewontin)
March 25 - 89. What did the cross achieve? Oliver Crisp on Atonement (atonement, doctrine, Easter, Jesus Christ, Oliver Crisp, penal substitution, theology)
March 24 - Islam and Christianity in Dialogue (Andy Bannister, dialogue, Islam, Sherif Ayoup)
March 23 - The omniscient God as the jilted lover (God, hermeneutics, omniscience, passibility, suffering, theology)
March 21 - Ed Buckner reviews Is the Atheist My Neighbor? (Ed Buckner, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?)
March 21 - God, Science, and the Universe: A Debate between Krauss, Meyer, and Lamoureaux (atheism, Denis Lamoureux, intelligent design, Lawrence Krauss, science, Stephen Meyer, theology)
March 20 - The Atheist and the Antitheist: The Lecture (antitheism, atheism, Concordia University, Rebellion Thesis)
March 19 - God in the terrifying image of a jilted lover (God, impassibility, love, Philip Yancey)
March 17 - A Career in the Pulpit (calling, ministry, vocation)
March 15 - 88. Euthanasia, Death, and the Good Life: A Conversation with Heidi Janz (bioethics, ethics, euthanasia, Heidi Janz, problem of evil, problem of suffering, suffering, theology)
March 14 - Consumerism in its purest form (consumerism)
March 11 - The Unimaginable Torments of Hell (damnation, eschatology, eternal conscious torment, hell)
March 10 - A new review of Faith Lacking Understanding (Faith lacking understanding, review, theology)
March 9 - Sorry, this pew is paid for (church, evangelism, gospel, hospitality)
March 7 - 87. From the Bible to Doctrine: A conversation with Stephen Holmes (Bible, bibliology, doctrine, doctrine of scripture, hermeneutics, Stephen Holmes, systematic theology, theology)
March 6 - Muslims, Christians, and Worship of the Same God: A quick response to the Unbelievable debate (Christianity, Islam, Joseph Cumming, Justin Brierley, Nabeel Qureshi, Unbelievable)
March 4 - What happens when your abstract moral convictions encounter concrete reality? (ethics, social policy)
March 2 - Unveiling the title for my forthcoming book with Justin Schieber… (An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, atheism, Justin Schieber)
March 1 - Do atheists marginalize God? Do apologists marginalize atheists? (Investigative Apologist, Rebellion Thesis, Romans 1)
February 29 - Rebranding Donald Trump: Lessons from John Oliver (branding, Donald Trump, John Oliver)
February 27 - The Silver Lining on Is the Atheist My Neighbor? (atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?)
February 26 - Paul Beach and Jonathan Strand debate the Rationality of Belief in God (apologetics, atheism, epistemology, Jonathan Strand, Paul Beach, rationality, theism)
February 25 - 86. Making Sense of the Incarnation: A Conversation with Timothy Pawl (Analytic theology, christology, interview, Jesus Christ, philosophical theology, systematic theology, Tim Pawl)
February 25 - Help Name My Next Book (atheism, book, Justin Schieber, theism)
February 25 - How do you celebrate five + years of blogging? (blogging)
February 23 - The Blustery Word Salad White Noise of Donald Trump’s Campaign Manager (baloney, Corey Lewandowski, truth)
February 23 - The Irrationality of Anti-Theism: A response to Paul Beach (anti-theism, atheism, Paul Beach, rationality, Rebellion Thesis, theism)
February 22 - Bernie’s Biggest Blindspot? The problem of advertising in democratic elections (advertising, Bernie Sanders, ethics, persuasion, politics)
February 20 - Republican presidential candidates on torture: Ted Cruz really is a liar and Donald Trump is a brute (Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, torture)
February 19 - The Testimony of Atheist Converts to Christianity (atheism, Rebellion Thesis, Stephen Graham)
February 17 - 85. No Easy Answers: Kelly Kapic on God, theology, and suffering (ethics, interview, Kelly Kapic, pastoral theology, problem of evil, problem of suffering, providence, suffering)
February 16 - No Eagles of Death Metal Frontman, everybody shouldn’t have guns (Eagles of Death Metal, gun control, guns)
February 16 - Chocolate Cake, Chicken, and Other Metaphors of Truth and Error (culture, Finding God in the Shack, fundamentalism, reading)
February 14 - Did the Church of England troll Richard Dawkins? (Church of England, new atheism, prayer, Richard Dawkins, trolling)
February 13 - Is Life Meaningless without God? A Look at Andy Bannister’s Arguments (Andy Bannister, apologetics, atheism, meaning, purpose, theism)
February 12 - A Christian and Atheist Dialogue and Debate: My new book with Justin Schieber (atheism, Justin Schieber)
February 10 - A Limited Appetite for Wonder (An Appetite for Wonder, materialism, naturalism, Richard Dawkins)
February 8 - 84. Is belief in God rational? A Christian and atheist in debate (apologetics, atheism, debate, interview, Jonathan Strand, Paul Beach, rationality, theism)
February 6 - Why Christian presidential candidates need more Christianity in their campaigns (atheism, nones, politics, religion, religious diversity, religious pluralism, secularism)
February 5 - Wouldn’t it be nice? A review of Love and Mercy (Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Love and Mercy, review)
February 4 - Ted Cruz and Climate Change Denial (climate change, science, Ted Cruz, truth)
February 4 - How can you do this to anybody? A review of The Stoning of Soraya M. (biblical violence, review, The Stoning of Soraya M.)
February 3 - Natural, Supernatural, and … Scientism? (atheism, natural, scientism, supernatural, theism)
February 3 - I Object! A Conference on Biblical Violence … and Beyond (apologetics, Bible, biblical violence, conference, Daylight Church)
February 2 - The Atheist and the Antitheist (atheism, dialogue, Rebellion Thesis)
February 1 - My Suggestion for Bernie Sanders’ New Campaign Slogan (Bernie Sanders, campaign slogan, Dave Mustaine, Megadeth, politics)
February 1 - The View from Up There: Gravity and Aningaaq (Alfonso Cuaron, Aningaaq, astronomy, Gravity, outer space, Sandra Bullock)
January 30 - Only One Savior: politics and religious exploitation (Marco Rubio, politics, religion)
January 29 - 83. God’s Story: A Conversation with Mark Roncace (Bible, interview, Mark Roncace, narrative, violence)
January 27 - Christianity and Atheism in Dialogue … and Debate (atheism, debate, dialogue, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Jonathan Strand)
January 26 - The Popularity of Donald Trump as a spiritual exam of conservative Christianity (conservative Christianity, Donald Trump, ethics, evangelicalism, morality)
January 26 - Sin Junkies: addiction, punishment, and the new problem of hell (addiction, eternal conscious torment, hell, Michael Botticelli, sin)
January 23 - Notes on My Devil’s Advocate Debate with Michael Ruse (apologetics, atheism, debate, devil's advocate, Justin Brierley, Michael Ruse, theism, Unbelievable)
January 22 - The Ongoing Trials of the Minister Who Was an Atheist (atheism, Gretta Vosper, liberalism, orthodoxy, United Church)
January 22 - When Conservative Christianity Wore Aviators (culture, evangelicalism, kitsch)
January 20 - The Act of Killing: A Review (documentary, evil, genocide, review, The Act of Killing)
January 20 - 82. Is the Church Making Us Stupid? A conversation with John Stackhouse (Christian mind, culture, ethics, interview, John Stackhouse, political philosophy, rationality)
January 18 - You can dis the minorities, but don’t mess with Ted! (conservatism, Donald Trump, evangelicalism, GOP, Ted Cruz)
January 17 - Freethinking children? Not so much. (atheism, education, freethought, ideology, indoctrination, Richard Dawkins)
January 15 - I just finished debating Michael Ruse and… (atheism, debate, devil's advocate, Justin Brierley, Michael Ruse, theism)
January 14 - I Miss The Wittenburg Door (parody, satire, The Wittenburg Door)
January 13 - In my next debate I’ll be defending … atheism (atheism, debate, Justin Brierley, Michael Ruse, Unbelievable)
January 10 - Read Chapter 1 of Is the Atheist My Neighbor? (atheism, dialogue, doubt, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Rebellion Thesis, skepticism)
January 9 - Apologetics and the Flying Spaghetti Monster (apologetics, Flying Spaghetti Monster)
January 8 - Wheaton College, Larycia Hawkins, and Freethought (academic freedom, freethought, Larycia Hawkins, reason, Wheaton College)
January 7 - 81. Robin Parry on the Biblical Cosmos (Bible, biblical cosmology, biblical interpretation, hermeneutics, Robin Parry, worldview)
January 6 - A Modest Defense of Wheaton College’s inquiry into Larycia Hawkins (academic freedom, evangelicalism, exclusivism, Islam, Larycia Hawkins, Wheaton College)
January 6 - Vintage Bible Tracts: “Good News” (evangelicalism, evangelism, kitsch, tract)
January 5 - Disciples of the Prince of Peace are following the Hater in Chief?! (church, Donald Trump, evangelicalism)
January 4 - Is Freedom the Cost of Freedom? A Quick Review of Citizenfour (Citizen Four, Edward Snowden, free society, surveillance)
January 2 - Logically incoherent and frankly silly (plausibility structure, rationality, worldview)
January 1 - The Humanist Chaplain: A Response to the Bart Campolo / Friendly Atheist Interview (atheism, Bart Campolo, chaplaincy, existentialism, humanism, pastoral theology, skepticism)

2015

December 30 - The Meaning of Life: A New Year’s Eve Reflection (existentialism, meaning, meaning of life, purpose)
December 29 - You now have permission to admit The Force Awakens is lame (J.J. Abrams, review, Star Wars)
December 29 - 80. The Problem with Porn: A conversation with Matt Fradd (ethics, holiness, interview, Matt Fradd, podcast, pornography, sanctification)
December 27 - Making a Murderer: A Review (criminal justice, documentary, jurisprudence, Making a Murderer, Netflix, review, Steven Avery)
December 24 - How young was the Virgin Mary … and was that too young? (Christmas, Mary, virgin birth, virgin conception)
December 22 - Should you risk your children getting malaria … or affluenza? (affluenza, consumerism, ethics, mission)
December 20 - Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God? A Question Explored Through Sheep and Goats (Christianity, exclusivism, inclusivism, Islam, Rwanda, salvation)
December 20 - Upcoming Lecture on “Is the Atheist My Neighbor?” (atheism, dialogue, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, lecture)
December 19 - False Analogies or the Fallacy Fallacy? (argument by analogy, dialogue, fallacy fallacy, informal logic, logical fallacies)
December 19 - Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense: A review (Cherie Miller, critical thinking, rationality, reason, review, Steve Miller, Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense)
December 17 - Why would an atheist respect the Calvinist God? (atheism, Calvinism)
December 17 - 79. Bringing the Gospel to the poorest nation on earth (Africa, community development, evangelism, mission, Niger)
December 17 - How to tell if somebody is demon possessed: points 3-5 (demon possession, exorcism, naturalism, Ockham's razor)
December 15 - On Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: A Review of God’s Story (Bible, Brothers Grimm, Mark Roncace, review)
December 13 - How to tell if somebody is demon possessed: 2. hidden knowledge (demon possession, exorcism)
December 12 - Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed: A Review (Austin Fischer, Calvinism, problem of evil, providence, review)
December 11 - How to tell if somebody is demon possessed: 1. Do they have an aversion to holy things? (demonic possession, demons, Ockham's razor, psychosomatic, Voodoo death)
December 9 - Demon-possessed or mentally ill? (demons, exorcism, mental illness, Ockham's razor, Patrick Coffin, psychiatry, supernaturalism)
December 7 - 78. Hugh Ross on God, Science, and Reasons to Believe (apologetics, astronomy, Hugh Ross, interview, podcast, Reasons to Believe, science)
December 6 - Jerry Falwell Jr: Jesus follower … or hate monger? (gun control, Islam, Jerry Falwell Jr., terrorism)
December 4 - The irrational fear of Islam, or why “radical Islam” is like the Ebola virus (fundamentlism, gun control, gun violence, Islam, religious violence)
December 1 - Should a Christian support Donald Trump for President? Of course not. Can they? I don’t think so. (Christianity, democracy, Donald Trump, ethics, politics)
November 30 - The Church, homosexuality, and the role of personal experience (Bible, David Gushee, ethics, hermeneutics, homosexuality)
November 28 - Demon Possession: The book I should write someday… (demon possession, demonology)
November 27 - On Ape-Men and Grand Illusions (evolution, indoctrination, Merchants of Doubt, Terry Mortenson, young earth creationism)
November 24 - Is it wrong to tell your children about Santa Claus? (children, deception, lying, Santa Claus)
November 24 - 77. Kenton L. Sparks on the Bible as Sacred and Broken Word (Bible, biblical authority, bibliology, inspiration, interview, Kent Sparks, podcast)
November 21 - Politicians, fascists, and used car salesmen (bullshit, civil discourse, Donald Trump, politics, truth)
November 19 - On reading (and singing) the prayers of others (corporate worship, liturgy, prayer)
November 18 - The real scandal over Starbucks cups (Christmas, ethics, evangelicalism, garbage, Marketplace, recycling, Starbucks, War on Christmas)
November 17 - Hell and Holiness (doctrine, eternal conscious torment, hell, sanctification, Unfundamentalist Christians)
November 17 - How absurd is atheist offense at calls to Pray For Paris? Very. (anarchism, atheism, Paris, solidarity)
November 15 - Why atheists shouldn’t object to the call to “Pray for Paris” (atheism, open society, Pray for Paris, providence, solidarity, terrorism)
November 13 - Atheist Arguments and Uncritical Anthropomorphism (God, Justin Schieber, omniscience, privacy, providence)
November 10 - Should you hope God doesn’t exist so you can have some privacy? (Part 1) (God, Justin Schieber, omniscience, privacy, providence)
November 10 - 76. Keith L. Johnson on Theology as Discipleship (discipleship, Keith Johnson, spiritual formation, theology)
November 8 - Everyone’s Daughter: A Review of India’s Daughter (ethics, India's Daughter, misogyny, review, social change)
November 6 - Meticulous Providence, Open Theism, and Twittery: A response to Greg Boyd (Greg Boyd, meticulous providence, open theism, twitter, twittery)
November 5 - Atheism and Christianity: the CHRI FM Interview (atheism, Brock Tozer, CHRI, interview, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?)
November 4 - Atheist as Neighbor Chapel Talk (atheism, hospitality, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, talk)
November 3 - How to damn God with faint praise (God, praise, thanksgiving)
November 3 - Did Jesus know absolutely everything? (christology, incarnation, Jesus Christ, omniscience)
November 2 - Want to lose friends and alienate people? Tell ’em about Jesus. (evangelism, Jesus, Jim Gaffigan)
November 1 - Five Things You Could Have Done For Halloween (culture, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, Halloween)
October 31 - My Best Halloween Memory Ever. What’s Yours? (childhood, Halloween, memory)
October 30 - Hell and Mr. Fudge: A Review (doctrine, eschatology, fundamentalism, hell, Hell and Mr. Fudge, review)
October 28 - Those who ignore the causes of Palestinian violence… (dialogue, Israel, Middle East, rationality, violence)
October 27 - What Joe Biden can teach us (atheism, dialogue, Joe Biden, theism)
October 26 - Offensively trite suburban reasons to believe in God # 257: New earbuds just when you need them (apologetics, humor)
October 25 - The Atheist My Neighbor on “The God Show” (interview, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, The God Show)
October 24 - Misoatheism: A New Label for Anti-Atheist Prejudice (bigotry, misoatheism, prejudice, Rebellion Thesis)
October 24 - Thoughts on The Martian (science, scientism, The Martian)
October 23 - Gift Shop Wisdom (truth)
October 22 - Does the religious status of New Testament documents undermine their historical veracity? (Bible, biblical inspiration, history, New Testament, skepticism)
October 20 - Koukl responds to Feser and I respond to Koukl (atheism, Greg Koukl, Rebellion Thesis)
October 19 - Does Wintery Knight believe the sun orbits the earth? (Bible, hermeneutics, inerrancy, inspiration, Wintery Knight)
October 18 - Slandering atheists (atheism, bigotry, Rebellion Thesis, Wintery Knight)
October 17 - Songs Jesus Would Sing: 2. The Alarm, “How the Mighty Fall” (How the Mighty Fall, justice, The Alarm)
October 16 - Aliens in our backyard? (alien, ETI, outerspace)
October 14 - Can we handle the truth? A reflection on Lincoln Chafee’s bizarre honesty (democracy, legislation, Lincoln Chafee)
October 12 - A Smile Can Hide All the Pain: A Review of “I’ll Be Me” (Glen Campbell; Alzheimer's Disease; suffering)
October 10 - An Atheist at Thanksgiving (Revisited) (thankfulnss; grace; G.K. Chesterton; atheism; providence)
October 9 - Do some Christian apologists spin their academic credentials? (apologetics, dishonesty, truth)
October 5 - Are atheists rebelling against God? Greg Koukl says “No Duh!” (atheism, doubt, Greg Koukl, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Rebellion Thesis)
October 4 - Is the Golden Rule now a luxury we can ill afford? ("God's not Dead", atheism, dialogue, Golden Rule)
October 4 - Ran for the Cure (cancer, fundraiser)
October 3 - On Kinda Hoping God Doesn’t Exist (antitheism, atheism, Jeff Kesterson, rationality)
October 2 - Songs Jesus Would Sing: 1. Tesla, “Be a Man” (Be a Man, Jeff Keith, Songs Jesus Would Sing, Tesla)
October 2 - Songs Jesus Would Sing: The birth of a new series (Jesus, Kingdom of God, music, pop culture, worship)
September 30 - Another failed attempt to demonstrate that Calvinism is irrational (due to a contradiction) (Calvinism, election, rationality)
September 30 - Running to make cancer history, one step at a time (cancer, fundraiser)
September 30 - All about Eve: Wm. Paul Young Speaking in Edmonton (Eve, William Paul Young)
September 29 - The Golden Rule of Caricaturing the Beliefs of Others (caricature, dialogue, fundamentalism)
September 29 - Calvinism is perfectly coherent. In which I continue defending a view I reject (Calvinism, election, God, Zeno)
September 28 - Calvinism as a logical contradiction (Calvinism, election, guest post, rational intuition, Zeno)
September 28 - Debriefing Calvinism and an article on hell (Calvinism, eternal conscious torment, hell, Unfundamentalist Christians)
September 27 - If the God of Calvinism exists, would you worship him? (Calvinism, God, moral intuition, perfect being theology, rationality, theism)
September 26 - I refuse to repent to a god who…? A response to Justin Schieber (atheism, God, Justin Schieber, perfect being theology, protest theism)
September 26 - God’s not Dead in 7 Minutes
September 25 - The point is to become holy. Happiness comes later: Christianity Against Culture Part 2 (culture, happiness, holiness)
September 23 - The Making of an Enemy? The Tuggy-Spiegel Interview on Atheism (atheism, Dale Tuggy, epistemology, interview, James Spiegel, podcast, Rebellion Thesis, sin, The Making of an Atheist)
September 21 - Rethinking short-term missions … and other forms of voluntourism (evangelism, mission, short-term mission, voluntourism)
September 20 - The Rights of the Creator (AI, God, providence)
September 18 - You Don’t Own Yourself: Christianity Against Culture Part 1 (anthropology, meaning, meaning of life, purpose, worldview)
September 18 - How big is the Solar System? (cosmos, Solar System, universe)
September 15 - Apathy, Hostility, and Is the Atheist My Neighbor? (atheism, dialogue, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?)
September 14 - Still Talking Atheism on The Trinities Podcast (atheism, Dale Tuggy, interview, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Trinities)
September 14 - Does William Lane Craig care about the truth of Christianity? (apologetics, atheism, debate, Jeff Lowder, theism, truth, William Lane Craig)
September 12 - Can Christians and Atheists Stop Fighting? The Rauser/Shaha Conversation (Alom Shaha, atheism, dialogue, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Justin Brierley)
September 11 - Joe Biden talking about loss with Stephen Colbert (faith, Joe Biden, problem of evil, Stephen Colbert, suffering)
September 11 - The Skeptic Community and Irrational Doubt: A second response to Justin Schieber (epistemology, Justin Schieber, rationality, reason, skepticism)
September 9 - Atheist tweets on faith: A response to Justin Schieber (belief, doubt, epistemology, Justin Schieber, reason)
September 8 - Running for a Good Cause (fundraiser, Habitat for Humanity)
September 7 - Talking Atheism on The Trinities Podcast (atheism, Dale Tuggy, interview, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Trinities)
September 7 - Human value revisited: Could divine attachment contribute to human value? (Andy Bannister, atonement, God, incarnation, value)
September 6 - Human value and the atonement: A Reply to Andy Bannister (Andy Bannister, anthropology, apologetics, meaning, Unbelievable, value)
September 5 - The Berenstain Conspiracy and beyond… (conspiracy theory, evidence, humor, rationality)
September 4 - Are Christians being hypocrites about marriage? (divorce, ethics, marriage)
September 2 - Christians standing against gay marriage need to be consistent on divorce (civil disobedience, ethics, gay marriage, homosexuality, Kim Davis)
August 31 - Atheism and Christian Hospitality: A conversation with Father Ron (atheism, hospitality, interview, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?)
August 29 - Why I don’t like agnostics calling themselves atheists (agnosticism, atheism)
August 27 - The Contemptuous Atheist (atheism, contempt, dialogue, Simon Blackburn)
August 27 - Upcoming media appearances for Is the Atheist My Neighbor? (interview, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?)
August 26 - A Slap of Persuasion? A Review of Os Guinness, Fool’s Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion (apologetics, dialogue, Os Guinness, persuasion, review, rhetoric)
August 24 - Stephen Colbert on providence and the problem of suffering (problem of evil, providence, Stephen Colbert, suffering, theodicy)
August 23 - Is Jeff Lowder a philosopher? (Jeff Lowder, John Loftus, philosopher, philosophy)
August 23 - God and the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald (natural evil, problem of evil, theodicy)
August 22 - What chance has she? (education, freethought, pedagogy, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, worldview)
August 21 - The Bitterness of Redemption (grace, murder, redemption)
August 20 - The hack of AshleyMadison.com accompanied by the world’s smallest violin (AshleyMadison.com, cheating, ethics, hacktivism, internet)
August 18 - The Myth of the Free Thought Parent (atheism, critical thinking, free thought, rationality, skepticism, worldview)
August 17 - Real Atheology considers whether a meaningful life requires God (apologetics, atheism, existentialism, God, Justin Schieber, meaning of life, Real Atheology, theism, William Lane Craig)
August 16 - 14. Is Allah the god of the Bible? (Allah, Bible, Christianity, Islam, language, reference, theism, truth)
August 15 - Matthew Manry reviews Is the Atheist my Neighbor? (atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Matthew Manry, review)
August 15 - Faith-Head Christians vs. Brain-Dead Atheists (atheism, Christianity, dialogue, open society, theism)
August 7 - Christology, Anthropology, Theodicy. Inconsistency? (anthropology, christology, problem of evil, theodicy)
August 6 - Should Christian clergy be expected to believe that God exists? (atheism, church, doctrine, dogma, liberalism, modernism, theism)
August 5 - On the Awkward Romanticism and Individualism of Popular Christian Music (CCM, Christian music, worship)
August 4 - A Primer to Irenic Biblical Debate on Contentious Moral Issues (Bible, biblical ethics, corporal punishment, ethics, homosexuality, Michael Brown, William Webb)
August 1 - The Apologist’s Dilemma (apologetics, dialogue, skepticism, theology)
July 30 - We’re All James Palmer (more or less) (animal rights, ethics, Gary Francione, James Palmer)
July 29 - Another illustration of the deep problems with imputation theories of atonement (atonement, imputation, jurisprudence, justice, penal substitution)
July 27 - Patience: A Sermon (ethics, patience, sanctification, sermon, spiritual fruit, virtue)
July 25 - What is a Christian movie? (Hint: It isn’t merely a movie that’s marketed to Christians) (Christian movie, movie)
July 24 - My exchange with Matt Fradd on God’s not Dead ("God's not Dead", atheism, Matt Fradd, movie)
July 24 - An Unfundamentalist reviews Is the Atheist My Neighbor? (Dan Wilkinson, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, review, Unfundamentalist Christians)
July 22 - Christians and Atheists: My “Strange Notions” Article (atheism, Christianity, dialogue, theism)
July 22 - Is American Religious Conservatism driving people away from the church? (evangelicalism, fundamentalism)
July 21 - 13. What about the ontological argument? (59 Second Apologist, apologetics, ontological argument)
July 21 - 12 Minutes with the 59 Second Apologist (59 Second Apologist, apologetics)
July 17 - Randal talks atheism on “The Ride Home with John and Kathy” (atheism, hospitality, interview, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, radio)
July 15 - How not to advise a wannabe activist (activism, atheism, emotional intelligence, wisdom)
July 15 - A day after Pluto, a look back at the Pale Blue Dot (Carl Sagan, God, Pale Blue Dot, religion, science, universe)
July 14 - The first Amazon.com review for Is the Atheist My Neighbor? (Is the Atheis, review)
July 14 - Is the Bible Reliable? The Sermon (Bible, hermeneutics, inspiration, revelation, sermon)
July 14 - Is the Atheist My Neighbor? gets a mention on “Catholic Answers Live” (atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Trent Horn)
July 12 - The Commie Bible, and other ideological influences on Bible translation (Bible, fundamentalism, NIV, RSV, translation wars)
July 11 - My Conversation on Heaven with Paul Arthur (heaven, Insight, interview, Paul Arthur, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven)
July 11 - Randal on Atheism: The Bob Dutko Interview (atheism, Bob Dutko, interview)
July 10 - Does abstinence belong in sex education? (abstinence, ethics, Justin Schieber, sex, sex education)
July 10 - My interview on atheism with Dr. Michael Brown (atheism, interview, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Michael Brown)
July 9 - Is the Atheist My Neighbor? is now available in Kindle (Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Kindle)
July 9 - The death of the Christian bookstore (Blessings, Christian bookstore, consumerism)
July 8 - Christians and Atheists: The Matt Fradd Interview (interview, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Matt Fradd)
July 7 - The 59 Second Apologist is on YouTube (59 Second Apologist, apologetics, YouTube)
July 7 - Should you ever shun anybody? (grace, shunning, the ban)
July 6 - Keith Parsons on Atheism, Theism, and Irenicism (atheism, irenicism, Keith Parsons, Secular Outpost)
July 5 - 12. The 59-Second Apologist: What is apologetics? (apologetics)
July 4 - All the world is not a courtroom: The problematic metaphor of religious conservatives (conservative, fundamentalism)
July 4 - Jeff Lowder on Is the Atheist My Neighbor? (atheism, dialogue, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Jeff Lowder, naturalism)
July 3 - Randal Talks Atheism, Neighbors, and Back to the Future on The Storymen Podcast (atheism, Clay Morgan, interview, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Jr. Forasteros, Matt Mikalatos, Storymen Podcast)
July 2 - How to tell you were raised dispensational (dispensationalism, rapture)
July 2 - The Perplexities of Privileging Particular Parents (adoption, arts, gay marriage, homosexuality)
July 1 - A simple way to allay fears of religious discrimination: stop marrying for the state (gay marriage, homosexuality, religious freedom)
July 1 - The Parable of the Good Atheist (atheism, hospitality, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Parable of the Good Atheist)
June 30 - The Parable of the Good Atheist (atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?)
June 29 - Ten things that are more disturbing than gay marriage (ethics, evangelicalism, gay marriage, morality)
June 28 - Review copies of Is the Atheist My Neighbor? for Bloggers (blog, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?)
June 26 - Many Bad Bibles … and the Worst of them All (Bible, Bibleman, capitalism, consumerism, marketing)
June 26 - Barack Obama on Is the Atheist My Neighbor? (Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Obama)
June 24 - God and Moral Obligation: A Review (C. Stephen Evans, ethics, God, God and Moral Obligation, metaethics, morality, philosophy, review)
June 24 - Are we there yet? The long journey to Pluto (astronomy, Pluto, science, space exploration)
June 23 - 11. The 59-Second Apologist: Is the incarnation a contradiction? (christology, incarnation, logic, theology)
June 22 - Would you sacrifice your son if God told you to? (atheism, divine command ethics, ethics, Richard Dawkins, theism)
June 21 - Knocking Down the Strawman Theist (atheism, Julian Baggini, naturalism, strawman, theism)
June 20 - Further reflections on Baggini’s Atheism: A Very Short Introduction (atheism, Julian Baggini, naturalism)
June 18 - 75. Allan Effa on Religious Pilgrimage (Allan Effa, pilgrimage)
June 18 - Is the Atheist My Neighbor? is now in stock at Amazon (atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?)
June 17 - All my books together in one place! (books, Randal Rauser)
June 16 - Remaining a Christian doesn’t make you stupid any more than becoming an atheist makes you smart (atheism, Christianity, fundamentalism, theism)
June 15 - Reductionism Propaganda? On the wily ways of the open-minded dogmatist (atheism, materialism, propaganda, reductionism, worldview)
June 14 - Was the Bible written by God or men? And other false dichotomies (Bible, dichotomy, fundamentalism, revelation, strawman)
June 13 - Buy the book all the smart and cool atheists are reading!
June 11 - 74. The Problem with Jebus (dialogue, Jebus, rhetoric)
June 10 - My new book on atheism is already bringing Christians and atheists together (atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Richard Dawkins)
June 10 - Is the Atheist My Neighbor? The Promo Flyer (Is the Atheist My Neighbor?)
June 9 - Is the Atheist My Neighbor? Support the Book and Change the Conversation (atheism, dialogue, hospitality, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?)
June 8 - My abortive Nuskeptix conversation with atheist Raphael Lataster (debate, dialogue, fundamentalism, interview, Nuskeptix, Raphael Lataster)
June 6 - Animal Resurrection (animal pain, Dale Tuggy, theodicy, Trent Dougherty)
June 5 - What makes you really, really angry? (anger, culture war, Matt Walsh)
June 4 - 73. Randal interviews Randal on the Atheist as Neighbor (atheism, dialogue, interview, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Randal)
June 3 - Religion without God : A Review (Part 1) (atheism, naturalism, religion, Religion without God, Ronald Dworkin)
June 2 - Is the Atheist My Neighbor? The Cover (book cover, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?)
June 2 - Is the Atheist My Neighbor? The J.L. Schellenberg Endorsement (atheism, dialogue, endorsement, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, J.L. Schellenberg)
June 1 - Scientism and Sneer Quotes (atheism, naturalism, scientism. Edward Babinski)
May 31 - One simple way to tell that a particular atheist lacks intellectual credibility (atheism, dialogue, faith, rhetoric)
May 30 - Yahweh vs. Thor (evidence, justification, Thor, Yahweh)
May 30 - Science is no substitute for religion: A Reader’s Journey Through God or Godless (Part 7) (atheism, Christianity, God or Godless, John Loftus, review, science, scientism)
May 28 - One of the dumber things Christopher Hitchens said (Christopher Hitchens, dialogue, epistemology, Hitchens's Razor, rationality)
May 27 - When you are so free that you’re not free to choose evil (culture, free will, freedom, heaven)
May 25 - 10. The 59-Second Apologist: Will we have free will in heaven? (afterlife, eschatology, free will, heaven)
May 24 - The Biblical God Required Child Sacrifices for His Pleasure: A Reader’s Journey Through God or Godless (Part 6) (biblical violence, child sacrifice, God or Godless, John Loftus, revelation)
May 22 - Minding the Memes (dialogue, free society, incivility, Jeff Lowder, meme)
May 21 - 72. You’re not as Crazy as I Think (dialogue, truth, You're not as crazy as I think)
May 20 - If There Is No God, Then Everything Is Permitted: A Reader’s Journey Through God or Godless (Part 5) (apologetics, atheism, ethics, God or Godless, John Loftus, metaethics, morality, virtue)
May 18 - Reading Glasses (aging, mortality)
May 17 - Pigliucci the Prophet (atheism, Massimo Pigliucci, skepticism)
May 15 - A More Christlike God: A (very long and detailed) Review (atonement, Brad Jersak, christology, evangelism, gospel, mission, redemption, salvation, theology)
May 13 - The Biblical Concept of God Evolved from Polytheism to Monotheism: A Reader’s Journey Through God or Godless (Part 4) (apologetics, atheism, Bible, Christianity, debate, God or Godless, John Loftus, monotheism, polytheism, revelation, theism)
May 12 - A Primer to my Reader’s Journey Through God or Godless (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, debate, dialogue, God or Godless, John Loftus, meaning, naturalism, theism, worldview)
May 11 - More heat than light? Debriefing the Gagnon/Ozanne Debacle (Bible, dialogue, ethics, homosexuality, Jayne Ozanne, Justin Brierley, Robert Gagnon, Unbelievable)
May 10 - 71. Can the Church Be Saved? A conversation with Philip Kenneson (church, consumerism, ecclesiology, evangelism, interview, mission, Philip Kenneson, podcast)
May 8 - Should women be allowed to preach if it is carried out under the authority of a male elder? (complementarianism, feminism, gender, John Piper, sexism, women)
May 7 - If there is no God, then life has no meaning: A Reader’s Journey Through God or Godless (Part 3) (atheism, existentialism, John Loftus God or Godless, meaning, purpose, theism)
May 5 - If you want to see folk damned, there is something wrong with you! (grace, hell, judgment, universalism)
May 5 - Too short for its own good? A Reader’s Journey Through God or Godless (Part 2) (apologetics, God or Godless)
May 4 - Blowback: A Reader’s Journey Through God or Godless (Part 1) (apologetics, blowback, debate, dialogue, John Loftus)
May 1 - 70. Brad Jersak on a more Christlike God (atonement, Bible, biblical violence, Brad Jersak, christology, inspiration, redemption, scripture)
April 28 - Justifying Naturalism? (atheism, justification, Justin Schieber, naturalism)
April 27 - A Primer for (Generous) Transgender Theological Reflection (ethics, theology, transgender)
April 26 - Can Christianity guarantee your happiness? (atheism, Brad Pitt, depression, existentialism, God, meaning, theism)
April 24 - Justin Schieber’s objections to the proper basicality of theism considered (apologetics, Christianity, epistemology, foundationalism, Justin Schieber, proper basicality, religious experience, theism)
April 23 - Transcript for the Rauser/Schieber Debate (apologetics, debate, Justin Schiber)
April 22 - 69. Danielle Strickland on the Gospel and Kingdom (Danielle Strickland, evangelism, gospel, Kingdom of God, social gospel)
April 21 - Intelligent Design and Astrology (intelligent design, Michael Behe, naturalism, science)
April 20 - Belief and Doubt in the 21st Century
April 20 - Does God Exist? The Rauser/Schieber Debate
April 20 - Interview: What on Earth Do We Know About Heaven?
April 20 - Interview: Healthy Debate and Discussion
April 20 - Interview: A Discussion on Apologetics
April 20 - A Reader’s Journey through God or Godless this May (apologetics, atheism, debate, God or Godless, John Loftus, theism)
April 19 - The Anthropocentrism Switcheroo? (anthropocentrism, atheism, hostility, Justin Schieber, naturalism, theism, universe)
April 18 - Lessons from the tragicomic aging rock star (aging, existentialism, purpose)
April 17 - Can you hear the groaning of creation? (creation, fallen, natural evil, problem of evil)
April 16 - Belief and Doubt in the 21st Century (atheism, belief, Christianity, dialogue, doubt, faith, Justin Schieber)
April 15 - Meaningful relationship and propositional knowledge: A response to Justin Schieber (Part 2) (apologetics, divine hiddenness, Justin Schieber, problem of evil)
April 13 - Meaningful relationship and propositional knowledge: A response to Justin Schieber (Part 1) (atheism, divine hiddenness, Justin Schieber, theism)
April 13 - Does God Exist? The Rauser/Schieber Debate mp3 (apologetics, atheism, debate, God, Justin Schieber, theism)
April 11 - Debating God: The Rauser/Schieber Debate is Up! (agnosticism, atheism, debate, God, Justin Schieber, theism, University of Alberta)
April 10 - 68. Justin Schieber on knowledge, God and morality (apologetics, atheism, debate, dialogue, ethics, Justin Schieber, metaethics, naturalism, theism)
April 9 - Mocking Atheism (atheism, mockery, religion)
April 8 - Crucify! Crucify! The standard evangelical response to the Christian provocateur? (dialogue, Eric Seibert, evangelicalism)
April 7 - 67. Justin Schieber on rationality and religious disagreement (defeater, epistemology, evidence, foundationalism, proper basicality, rationality)
April 5 - Easter and the Resurrection to Judgment (atonement, eschatology, final judgment, Frederick Buechner, Jesus Christ, resurrection)
April 3 - Are We Alone? How Nova gets the ultimate question wrong (and why it matters) (God, naturalism, Nova, science, scientism)
April 2 - Joe Walsh and the Problem of Evil (Joe Walsh, problem of evil, providence, the Eagles)
March 31 - In defense of rational disagreement (defeater, epistemology, foundationalism, justification, rationality, Reformed epistemology)
March 31 - The Wrath of God was Satisfied: A Passion Week Sermon (atonement, christology, cross, Jesus Christ, penal substitution)
March 30 - Insight TV interview – March 2015
March 28 - 66. Reformed Epistemology: A Conversation with Myron Penner (epistemology, justification, Myron A. Penner, Reformed epistemology, warrant)
March 27 - Beyond so-called Friendship Evangelism (ethics, evangelism, friendship, street witnessing)
March 26 - Randal provides some heavenly insight to “Insight” (heaven, Insight, interview, Paul Arthur)
March 25 - Atheist Hate Speech at the Prayer Breakfast? (atheism, hate speech, morality, Phil Robertson)
March 24 - Preparing Christian kids for the university faith-buster class (apologetics, Darrell Bock, discipleship, education, indoctrination, Lee Strobel, university)
March 23 - Apologetics and the cult of concision or, not every conversation can be had in under four minutes (apologetics, biblical violence, canaanite genocide, indoctrination, Noam Chomsky)
March 22 - Can evangelicalism save you from spiritual confusion? (dogma, evangelicalism, indoctrination, Lee Strobel)
March 20 - Do you have to love Jesus more than your children? (afterlife, death, God, grief, Jesus)
March 17 - 65. Ten Things a Seminarian Can Learn from St. Patrick (church history, sermon, St. Patrick)
March 16 - Honor and the Problem of Evil (God, honor, problem of evil, theodicy)
March 13 - 64. Michael Rea on Naturalism (atheism, Michael Rea, naturalism, science)
March 12 - The Man I am Today: One soldier’s testimony and the problem of evil (apologetics, God, problem of evil, providence, suffering)
March 11 - Awesome Pictures from the Rauser/Schieber Belief and Doubt Dialogue (atheism, dialogue, Justin Schieber, theism)
March 10 - Reflections on the Rauser/Schieber Debate and Dialogue (apologetics, atheism, debate, dialogue, Justin Schieber, theism)
March 8 - The Rauser/Schieber Debate: A very brief debrief (apologetics, atheism, debate, Justin Schieber, theism)
March 7 - 63. Michael Rea on Philosophy of Religion and Analytic Theology (Analytic theology, Michael Rea, philosophical theology, philosophy of religion)
March 5 - Is God the same thing as “magic”? (atheism, God, magic, metaphysics, theism)
March 3 - Is the problem of evil a matter of interpretation? (atheism, problem of evil, theism, worldview)
March 2 - The editor comments on Is the Atheist My Neighbor? (Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Robin Parry)
March 1 - Ignorance as a badge of honor? Fundamentalism among Christians and atheists (atheism, fundamentalism, Richard Dawkins, theism, theology)
February 27 - 62. Paul Helm on God, Time, and Eternity (God, interview, open theism, Paul Helm, podcast, providence, theism, theology, time)
February 26 - The Rauser-Schieber Dialogue Revisited (atheism, interview, Justin Schieber, podcast, theism)
February 25 - 9. The 59-Second Apologist: If the Bible is God’s Word, then why isn’t it clearer? (Bible, hermeneutics, inspiration, perspicuity, revelation)
February 23 - Belief and Doubt in the Twenty-First Century is Coming! (March 8th) (apologetics, atheism, belief, doubt, Justin Schieber, theism)
February 23 - Divine Violence Revisited: My Response to Joshua Ryan Butler on “Unbelievable” (Bible, biblical violence, ethics, genocide, Joshua Ryan Butler, Unbelievable)
February 22 - Can you be Gay and Christian? My review on Amazon.com (ethics, homosexuality, Michael Brown, review)
February 22 - Belief and Doubt in the Twenty-First Century: A Christian-Atheist Dialogue (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, dialogue, doubt, Justin Schieber, theism)
February 21 - I love Tabasco after all: An invitation to rediscover the church (church, Tabasco sauce)
February 21 - My Calgary Debate on God’s Existence with Justin Schieber (March 8th) (apologetics, atheism, Calgary, debate, Justin Schieber, theism)
February 20 - Love has no shelf life: The goodness of life forever (afterlife, atheism, eschatology, eternity, skepticism)
February 19 - How should atheists think about theists who have a problem with atheism? (atheism, existentialism, theism)
February 19 - How should we think about atheists who have no problem with atheism? (afterlife, atheism, existential argument, meaning, theism)
February 18 - Do you have enough faith to be a theist? Or an atheist? (atheism, faith, rationality, theism, worldview)
February 17 - Healthy dialogue in a polarized world (Boldcupofcoffee.com, dialogue, interview, open society, You're not as Crazy as You Think)
February 16 - I Believe in Science! (atheism, Nacho Libre, naturalism, scientism)
February 16 - My March 7th Debate on God’s Existence with Justin Schieber (apologetics, atheism, debate, Justin Schieber, Reasonable Doubts, theism)
February 15 - My Hope is Built on Nothing Less than … Gopher Wood? The Case for Minimalist Apologetics (apologetics, Bible, heremeneutics)
February 14 - Wise Words on the Crazy Train: Things evangelicals can learn from Ozzy Osbourne (dialogue, evangelicalism, Ozzy Osbourne, understanding)
February 12 - My review of Did God Really Command Genocide?: The Shorter Version (apologetics, biblical ethics, biblical violence, divine command theory, genocide, God, Matthew Flannagan, Paul Copan, review, theism)
February 11 - 61. The Chaplains: Notes from the Frontlines (chaplaincy, evil, interview, ministry, problem of evil, suffering)
February 10 - Did God Really Command Genocide? A Review (Part 3) (apologetics, biblical ethics, biblical violence, Did God really command Genocide?, divine command ethics, ethics, genocide, Matthew Flannagan, Paul Copan, review)
February 8 - Why I don’t take young earth creationism seriously (even though I do take young earth creationists seriously) (dialogue, plausibility structure, worldview, young earth creationism)
February 8 - How to become a Christian when you’re not sure you believe (apologetics, Christianity, conversion, evangelism, God or Godless)
February 5 - Start with Christianity. Because it works. (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, theism)
February 1 - Apologetics and the Problem of the William Lane Craig Clones (apologetics, William Lane Craig)
January 30 - Did God Really Command Genocide? A Review (Part 2) (apologetics, biblical violence, divine command ethics, ethics, genocide, hermeneutics, Matthew Flannagan, Paul Copan)
January 28 - My Two Upcoming Debates on God’s Existence (atheism, debate, Justin Schieber, theism)
January 27 - Did God Really Command Genocide? A Review (Part 1) (Bible, biblical ethics, biblical violence, divine command ethics, ethics, genocide, Matthew Flannagan, morality, Paul Copan, review)
January 26 - What we can learn from “Loftus Logic” (or why John Loftus isn’t the Fonz) (David Marshall, John Loftus, logic, rhetoric)
January 25 - John Loftus bizarrely rants against me on Unbelievable. Sadly, all too believable. (David Marshall, John Loftus, Justin Brierley, Matthew Flannagan, outsider test for faith, Unbelievable)
January 24 - What’s splitting your church redux (church, genocide, Regent College, worship music)
January 24 - “Putting down wolves” and other chilling rhetoric (Chris Kyle, Don Mann, police, rhetoric, violence, war)
January 23 - 60. Worldview and Apologetics: A Conversation with Tawa Anderson (apologetics, Be Thou My Vision, review, Tawa Anderson, worldview)
January 21 - A Wolf in Sheepdog’s Clothing? A review of American Sniper (American Sniper, Bradley Cooper, Clint Eastwood, ethics, nationalism, review, war)
January 20 - Does Neil deGrasse Tyson know the meaning of meaning? (meaning, Neil deGrasse Tyson, philosophy)
January 19 - The Magic of Boyhood: A Review (Boyhood, review, Richard Linklater)
January 18 - When is a Christian going to write a book defending atheists? (atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?)
January 17 - Did you hear the one about the boy who went to heaven … except that he didn’t? (Christian publishing, credibility, heaven)
January 16 - Standing up against prejudice … and being called a hypocrite (ethics, free speech, homosexuality, hypocrisy, morality)
January 14 - 59. A Response to Bill Maher on Religion and Free Speech (Bill Maher, free speech, Islam, liberalism, Muslim, public square, religious violence)
January 13 - 58. Matthew Flannagan on God and Genocide (Bible, biblical ethics, biblical violence, Did God really command Genocide?, divine command, ethics, genocide, interview, Matthew Flannagan)
January 11 - Buddha statues and Saddam statues: The problem of toleration (religious pluralism, religious tolerance, secularism, toleration)
January 9 - What is a jerk? (jerk)
January 8 - The Tentative Apologist (that’s me) talks apologetics with Boldcupofcoffee.com (apologetics, dialogue, epistemology, interview)
January 7 - David Marshall takes on John Loftus (David Marshall, How Jesus Passes the Outsider Test: The Inside Story, John Loftus)
January 5 - 57. Terry Mortenson on Creationism (Bible, creationism, evolution, Genesis, hermeneutics, science, six day creationism, Terry Mortenson, young earth creationism)
January 4 - The Hope of Holy War? A Review of The Skeletons in God’s Closet (Part 3) (biblical ethics, biblical violence, holy war, Joshua Ryan Butler, morality, Old Testament, review, The SKeletons in God's Closet, war)
January 3 - Don’t buy that car! Why I read Jalopnik (automotive journalism, Jalopnik)
January 1 - A great deal on Burt’s Bees lip balm (Burt's Bees, marketing, Rexall)

2014

December 31 - Randal’s New Book on Heaven is Now Out
December 30 - 8. The 59-Second Apologist: Perfect Being Theology (perfect being theology, philosophical theology, philosophy of religion)
December 29 - Should theistic arguments tell you which God exists? (apologetics, atheism, David Eller, explanation, God, theism)
December 28 - On believing God (or Santa Claus) doesn’t exist (atheism, definition)
December 26 - The Surprise of Judgment? A Review of The Skeletons in God’s Closet (Part 2) (Joshua Ryan Butler, judgment, justice, review, The SKeletons in God's Closet)
December 24 - Christmas Greetings from RandalRauser.com (Merry Christmas)
December 21 - The Mercy of Hell? A Review of The Skeletons in God’s Closet (Part 1) (Bible, biblical interpretation, biblical violence, biblical warfare, genocide, hell, Joshua Ryan Butler, The SKeletons in God's Closet)
December 19 - I don’t want your money. I just want you to save the world. (elephants, environmentalism, ivory, Kiva, social justice)
December 18 - 56. Deborah Haarsma on BioLogos, God, and Evolution (Biologos, Deborah Haarsma, evolution, science, theistic evolution)
December 17 - My heaven interview with a Bold Cup of Coffee (Bold Cup of Coffee, eschatology, heaven, interview)
December 15 - Then We Shall See Face to Face: Some reasons for divine hiddenness (apologetics, atheism, divine hiddenness, doubt, problem of evil, unbelief)
December 14 - Is Citigroup the Anti-Christ? You might be forgiven for thinking so. (Citigroup, corporatoracy, Elizabeth Warren)
December 12 - Why the Friendly Atheist is Wrong. Or, for goodness sake, just thank goodness (atheism, discrimination, prejudice, the Friendly Atheist)
December 11 - Overly Uptight Atheist Activists? (atheism, comedy, Daily Show, Dan Barker, discrimination, parody)
December 10 - What happens after we die? (death, eschatology, eternity, existentialism, intermediate state, naturalism)
December 8 - 7. The 59-Second Apologist: The Argument from Divine Hiddenness (apologetics, divine hiddenness, J.L. Schellenberg, problem of evil, theodicy)
December 6 - Is God like Buckley’s cough syrup? (God, theology)
December 4 - 55. Does the Trinity make sense? A conversation with Michael Rea (Analytic theology, doctrine, Michael C. Rea, mystery, paradox, Trinity)
December 2 - Fundamentalists aren’t losing the battle. They’re merely changing sides. (Bible, fundamentalism, inspiration, revelation)
November 30 - “I got a Dyson”: Notes from the frontlines of Black Friday (Black Friday, consumerism, consumption, materialism)
November 28 - Oprah interviews Rob Bell … and Randal too! (Oprah, Rob Bell, satire)
November 25 - 54. William Lane Craig on Apologetics and Debates (apologetics, God, interview, Tentative Apologist Podcast, William Lane Craig)
November 21 - On the professorial pipe dream (academy, humanities, jobs, religion)
November 17 - 6. The 59-Second Apologist: How does the atonement work? (atonement, podcast, salvation, soteriology, The 59-Second Apologist, theology)
November 16 - Contempt for dissenting opinion (dialogue, discourse, open society)
November 14 - Advice on politely educating ridiculous religious people (atheism, dialogue, fundamentalism, religion, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)
November 12 - Can you be Gay and Christian? A review (Part 4): Can you be remarried and Christian? (Can you be gay and Chri, ethics, homosexuality, Michael Brown, review, sexual ethics)
November 10 - “Can You Be Gay and Christian?” A review (Part 3): The Weak Harmony Thesis (Can you be Gay and Christian?, ethics, homosexuality, Michael Brown, review, sexal ethics)
November 8 - “Can You Be Gay and Christian?” A review (Part 2): On moral abominations (Bible, Can you be Gay and Christian?, ethics, homosexuality, Michael Brown, sexual ethics)
November 5 - Lawrence Krauss believes religion might disappear in a generation (atheism, Lawrence Krauss, religion, science, secularism)
November 4 - Science and religion: Are they really in conflict? Yeah, sometimes. (conflict thesis, Discovery Institute, faith, religion, science, warfare thesis)
November 3 - Does “The God Delusion” kill people? (atheism, Richard Dawkins, scapegoat, suicide, The God Delusion)
November 1 - “Can You Be Gay and Christian?” A review (Part 1): Theology through experience (Bible, Can you be Gay and Christian?, ethics, homosexuality, Michael Brown, sexual ethics)
October 31 - The Assertive Agnostic. The Dogmatic Doubter. The Sure Skeptic. (agnosticism, dogmatism, Ed Babinski)
October 30 - When did everything become sexy? (language, sexy)
October 28 - 53. Peter Enns Tells Me So: The Interview (Bible, bibliology, inspiration, interview, Peter Enns, The Bible Tells Me So)
October 26 - Can evangelicals support active euthanasia? (ethics, euthanasia, evangelicalism)
October 22 - Changing Christian attitudes about atheism (atheism, Christianity, Hemant Mehta, Rob Bell)
October 21 - 52. Women in Ministry (church, complementarianism, ecclesiology, egalitarianism, feminism, ministry, spiritual gifts, women)
October 20 - Is there still a place to tremble before God? (church, fear, ideology, indoctrination)
October 16 - Do spirits have a ghost of a chance to persuade a skeptic? (afterlife, atheism, ghost, naturalism, supernaturalism, theism)
October 14 - The Atheist as Neighbor (atheism, prejudice, The Atheist as Neighbor)
October 11 - The Aesthetics of Design, Automotive and Religious (aesthetics, Aztek, Bob Lutz, church, ecclesiology, Peter Hitchens)
October 8 - 5. The 59-Second Apologist: God, Santa Claus and Absurdity (59 Second Apologist, atheism, God, parody argument, podcast, Santa Claus)
October 7 - Peter Enns is coming to Edmonton. Or should I say Ennsmonton? (Bible, conference, OnWord, Peter Enns, The Bible Tells Me So)
October 4 - Why debates on the existence of God tend to do more harm than good (apologetics, debate, existence of God)
October 1 - 51. On God and Comedy: Trading jokes with comedian and pastor Dan Taylor (arts, comedy, Dan Taylor, interview)
September 29 - The Evidential Problem of Evil (Part 2) (apologetics, atheism, Bible, defeater, divine deception, Erik Wielenberg, God, Reasonable Doubts, revelation, skepticism)
September 27 - On the Future of the Tentative (and 59 Second) Apologist (blog Tentative apologist podcast, blogging, Tentative Apologist)
September 24 - The Bible Tells Me So: A Review (Bible, biblical inspiration, Peter Enns, revelation, scripture, The Bible Tells Me So)
September 11 - The Tentative Apologist Goes on Hiatus (blog)
September 10 - Mother Teresa said we find Jesus in the poor. Was she right? (hermeneutics, Jesus, Mother Teresa, salvation, social justice)
September 8 - The delusion of the non-creedal atheist (American Atheists, atheism, free thought, ideology, worldview)
September 7 - Does religion make conflict worse? (conflict, religion, violence)
September 6 - If we all reasoned like the atheistic ideologue (atheism, ideology, ISIS)
September 6 - Could it ever be right to deny Christ? (ethics, evangelism, Joseph Fletcher, martyrdom, situation ethics, theology, witness)
September 4 - Religion provides the motivation to destroy the world. So let’s get rid of religion! (apologetics, epigram, pragmatism, religion, secularism)
September 2 - Victor Stenger, religion and violence (new atheism, religion, rhetoric, Victor Stenger, violence)
September 2 - Why does God always seem to call the best pastors to the best churches? (calling, career, vocation)
August 30 - What are we made of? Star dust or stellar nuclear waste? (anthropology, star dust, worldview)
August 29 - On calling God a murderer (Part 2) (apologetics, divine action, God, murder, theodicy)
August 28 - An atheist about one less god than you (atheism, Frank Schaeffer, God, theism)
August 27 - On calling God a murderer (Part 1) (God, murder, natural evil, problem of evil, theodicy)
August 26 - On seeking some Oprah inspiration (inspiration, Oprah)
August 25 - At the risk of beating a dead horse…a look at the “most helpful” review of “God’s not Dead” ("God's not Dead", evangelicalism, fundamentalism, propaganda)
August 24 - Defending the sharper edge: A modest defense of my “God’s not Dead” review ("God's not Dead", culture, propaganda)
August 22 - If Richard Dawkins were king (Down Syndrome, ethics, eugenics, Richard Dawkins, secularism, society)
August 21 - Yo! He is Yahweh (God, reverence)
August 20 - David as Goliath and Goliath as David (Bible, David and Goliath, reading)
August 19 - The beheading of Goliath and the beheading of Syrian soldiers (beheading, Bible, corpse, David, ethics, violence)
August 18 - Beyond the Red-Letter Bible (Bible, red-letter)
August 16 - The Atheist Bogeyman? Critiquing Christian paranoia about the secular conspriacy (atheism, Richard Rorty, secularism)
August 15 - “God’s not Dead”: The Review (atheism, God is not Dead, movie, review)
August 15 - A simple explanation for how atheists can hate God (antitheism, atheism)
August 14 - “50 Great Myths About Atheism”: A Review (50 Great Myths About Atheism, apologetics, atheism, review, Russell Blackford, Udo Schüklenk)
August 13 - From weak scientism to atheism? “WIBA”: A Review (Part 15) (John Loftus, review, science, scientism, theology, Why I became an Atheist)
August 11 - “Deep Church Rising”: A Review (Andrew Walker, Deep Church Rising, ecclesiology, orthodoxy, orthopraxis, review, Robin Parry, schism)
August 10 - God and Morality? “WIBA”: A Review (Part 14) (apologetics, atheism, ethics, John Loftus, metaethics, normative ethics, Why I became an Atheist)
August 9 - God as an abusive boyfriend? (Friendly Atheist, God is an Abusive Boyfriend, Hemant Mehta, parody)
August 2 - Summer Blogging Break (break)
August 2 - The Loftus Apologists (apologetics, atheism, John Loftus, Jonathan Pearce)
August 1 - Philosopher’s God? “WIBA”: A Review (Part 13) (apologetics, atheism, cosmological arguments, John Loftus, theism, Why I became an Atheist)
July 31 - “Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 12) (apologetics, atheism, John Loftus, ontological argument, Why I became an Atheist)
July 31 - The beauty of laughter (Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, comedy, humor, Jerry Seinfeld, John Stewart)
July 30 - “Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 11) (apologetics, atheism, John Loftus, review, Why I became an Atheist)
July 29 - 4. The 59-Second Apologist: What are Calvinism and Arminianism? (arminianism, Calvinism, doctrine, podcast, providence, The 59-Second Apologist, theology)
July 28 - “Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 10) (apologetics, atheism, John Loftus, outsider test for faith, review, Why I became an Atheist)
July 27 - “Why I Became an Atheist”: Debriefing Parts 1-9 (apologetics, atheism, John Loftus, review, Why I became an Atheist)
July 26 - “Heaven is for Real” A Review (afterlife, eschatology, heaven, Heaven is for Real, movie, NDE, OBE, review)
July 26 - Podcasting: why the interlude? (For anyone who cares) (podcasting)
July 26 - Should you consider Christianity first? (apologetics Craig Hazen, Christianity)
July 24 - “Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 9) (apologetics, atheism, historical biblical criticism, John Loftus, revelation, review, Why I became an Atheist)
July 24 - My interview on heaven at Theologues (heaven, interview, Theologues)
July 23 - “Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 8) (Alvin Plantinga, epistemology, foundationalism, John Loftus, review, Why I became an Atheist)
July 22 - “Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 7) (apologetics, atheism, John Loftus, review, Why I became an Atheist, worldview)
July 22 - “Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 6) (Alvin Plantinga, defeaters, epistemology, externalism, foundationalism, internalism, John Loftus)
July 21 - Hi. You’re awesome. (consumerism, God, holiness, parody, satire)
July 20 - “Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 5) (atheism, epistemology, John Loftus, pragmatism, review, The Will to Believe, Why I became an Atheist, William James)
July 20 - “Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 4) (apologetics, atheism, Clifford's maxim, epistemology, John Loftus, rationality, review, W.K. Clifford)
July 18 - The Atonement in Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” (atonement, Clint Eastwood, Girardean theory, Gran Torino, Ken Pulliam, theology)
July 17 - “Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 3) (apologetics, atheist, John Loftus, review, Why I became an Atheist)
July 16 - “Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 2) (apologetics, atheism, John Loftus, review, theism, Why I became an Atheist)
July 15 - “Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 1) (apologetics, atheism, John Loftus, Why I became an Atheist)
July 14 - Can animals sin? (agency, chimpanzee, evolution, humanity, moral nature, morality, personhood)
July 13 - We’re probably not friends … but don’t take it personally (friendship)
July 12 - Homosexuality and Christianity: A Review of the Brown-Vines Debate (Part 4) (Bible, debate, ethics, homosexuality, Matthew Vines, Michael Brown)
July 10 - Divine action, answered prayer, and a zero/sum game (divine action, God, prayer, providence, theology)
July 10 - My psychic powers can turn street lamps off. Seriously. (Or not) (chance, paranormal, Street light interference phenomenon)
July 9 - Homosexuality and Christianity: A Review of the Brown-Vines Debate (Part 3) (Bible, debate, ethics, homosexuality, Matthew Vines, Michael Brown)
July 8 - Damning the disordered? An argument against eternal conscious torment (eschatology, eternal conscious torment, hell, judgment, theology)
July 7 - Homosexuality and Christianity: A Review of the Brown-Vines Debate (Part 2) (Bible, Christianity, debate, ethics, homosexuality, Matthew Vines, Michael Brown)
July 6 - The tale of the man who wiped his bum with silk napkins (and how it damns us all) (Christian discipleship, economics, ethics, externality)
July 6 - Bestiality, Pederasty, Incest … and Homosexuality: The “Big Four”? (bestiality, ethics, homosexuality, moral perception, morality, pederasty)
July 5 - Apologist Michael Brown responds to Part 1 of my review of the Brown-Vines Debate (debate, ethics, homosexuality, Michael Brown)
July 4 - Homosexuality and Christianity: A Review of the Brown-Vines Debate (Part 1) (apologetics, Christianity, debate, ethics, homosexuality, Julie Roys, Matthew Vines, Michael Brown, Moody Radio)
July 3 - Evolution plus Secular Dogma? A Response to Victor Stenger (apologetics, atheism, evolution, God, naturalism, Victor Stenger)
July 3 - Why John W. Loftus Became an Atheist: A Prolegomenon to the Review (apologetics, atheism, John W. Loftus, review, Why I became an Atheist)
July 1 - Crap to Tap? On the idea of recycling water (environmentalism, Last Call at the Oasis, recycling, review, water)
June 30 - 3. The 59-Second Apologist: What is the best argument for God’s existence? (59 Second Apologist, apologetics, arguments for Gods existence, bad arguments, podcast)
June 30 - Cosmos meets Logos: If Carl Sagan had been a conservative Christian (Carl Sagan, cosmos, Jeremy Beahan, Reasonable Doubts, satire)
June 29 - Would you rather be a great artist or a commercially successful one? (aesthetics, artistry, commerce, illustrator, Michael Bay)
June 28 - Is it time to teach the controversy? (church, dialogue, evangelicalism, open society, Teach the Controversy)
June 27 - Snakes and Christians: When atheist rhetoric runs amok (atheism, Christianity, rhetoric)
June 26 - 2. The 59-Second Apologist: Are atheists all fools? (59 Second Apologist, apologetics, atheism, Bible, podcast)
June 26 - Three wheel Christianity (apostasy, atheism, Christianity, deconversion, skepticism)
June 24 - “Christianity on Trial”: A Review (apologetics, Christianity on Trial, IVP, juridical apologetics, Mark Lanier, review)
June 23 - 1. The 59-Second Apologist: What is truth? (59 Second Apologist, apologetics, podcast, truth)
June 22 - “Faith is Like Skydiving”: A review (apologetics. Rick Mattson, evangelism, Faith is like Skydiving, review)
June 21 - Open a window: Fundamentalism and the thoughtful heretic (evangelical, fundamentalism, heresy, Karl Barth, orthodoxy, Ronald Osborn, Rudolf Bultmann)
June 20 - Two new books for review … and one of them is Loftus, “Why I Became an Atheist” (apologetics, atheism, John Loftus, review, W. Mark Lanier)
June 20 - 0. Randal launches The 59-Second Apologist (apologetics, satire, The 59-Second Apologist)
June 18 - 50. The Evidential Problem of Evil (Part 1) (apologetics, Erik Wielenberg, Jeremy Beahan, Justin Schieber, philosophy of religion, problem of evil, Reasonable Doubts, theism)
June 17 - In fact, you don’t know everything: A lesson from John Loftus (dialogue, discourse, John Loftus, knowledge)
June 17 - The Philosophy Fashionistas, or Sitting at the Adult Table (Chris Hallquist, fashion, God, Peter Boghossian, philosophy of religion, theism)
June 16 - Environmentalist hubris? (Do we really hold the fate of the world in our hands?) (anthropocentrism, environmentalism)
June 15 - Reflections on the Gnu Bible (Bible. Steve Wells, biblical studies, confirmtion bias, gnu atheism, rationality, selection bias, Skeptic's Annotated Bible, skepticism)
June 14 - Did God really harden Pharaoh’s heart? (divine action, Exodus, God, hardening heart, Pharaoh, problem of evil, providence, theology)
June 12 - Atheists aren’t looking for converts … said The Atheist Missionary (apologetics, atheism, dialogue, evangelism)
June 12 - A faith once lost is hard to find again (atheism, belief, Christianity, doubt, faith, skepticism)
June 11 - Why a perfect God might have hardened Pharaoh’s heart (apologetics, Bible, divine action, Pharaoh, problem of evil, providece, theology)
June 10 - Why did God harden Pharaoh’s heart? On the failure of a popular apologetic response (apologetics, divine action, free will, God, hardening heart, Pharaoh, problem of evil, providence)
June 9 - Why it is good to love material things (consumerism, ethics, love, materialism)
June 8 - When is a fundamentalist a fundamentalist? (dialogue, fundamentalism)
June 7 - Apologetics and the Crisis Apparition (apologetics, atheism, crisis apparition, ghost, Michael Licona, naturalism, NDE, OBE, skepticism)
June 6 - 49. David Goa on Christianity and the Religions (Christianity, David Goa, dialogue, interview, religion, theology)
June 6 - “Unbelievable? The Conference 2014”: For unbelievable people (in a good way) (2014, conference, Justin Brierley, Unbelievable)
June 5 - J.B. Phillips and the Ghost of C.S. Lewis (afterlife, apologetics, C.S. Lewis, ghost, God, J.B. Phillips, naturalism, NDE, OBE, paranormal, supernaturalism)
June 5 - My Book “What on Earth Do we Know About Heaven?” is FREE June 5 (eBook only) (free, heaven, Kindle, promotion, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven)
June 4 - A call for the abolition of tipping (Andrew Coyne, tipping)
June 3 - Has Boghossian’s bulldog been neutered? (bullshit, faith, John Loftus, Peter Boghossian)
June 2 - Intersexuality: the pastor’s dilemma (ethics, intersexuality, pastoral ethics)
June 1 - “I just have faith?” How atheists go wrong in understanding the concept of faith (belief, Christian, epistemology, evidence, faith, Peter Boghossian, rationality)
May 31 - Male and female he created them, but not always? Christianity and intersexuality (ethics, image of God, intersexuality, theology)
May 30 - Boghossian’s bulldog … or his lapdog? (John Loftus, Peter Boghossian)
May 29 - Check out the new edition of The Journal of Analytic Theology (Analytic theology, Journal of, philosophy of religion)
May 28 - Ronald E. Osborn against the idea of a global flood (Genesis, global flood, Ronald Osborn, young earth creationism)
May 27 - 48. God is not a white man: Terry LeBlanc on Indigenous Theology (contextualization, first nations, indigenous theology, native, Terry LeBlanc)
May 26 - Take a short survey on faith (from Tom Gilson) (faith, Peter Boghossian, Thinking Christian, Tom Gilson)
May 26 - Peter Boghossian is a bigot. But is Tim McGrew brain-damaged? (atheism, bigotry, Peter Boghossian, Tim McGrew)
May 25 - Tim McGrew gives Peter Boghossian an unbelievable public drubbing (debate, faith, indoctrination, Justin Brierley, Peter Boghossian, reason, Tim McGrew, Unbelievable)
May 24 - When you play RPGs, is the devil playin’ you? (Dark Dungeons, fundamentalism, Jack Chick, RPG, trailer)
May 23 - Do you dare place God on trial? (Bible, covenant, film, God on Trial, Jew, Nazis, problem of evil, theodicy)
May 22 - Is Owen Strachan guilty of theological malpractice? (fundamentalism, heresy, orthodoxy, Owen Strachan, Rachel Held Evans, theological malpractice)
May 22 - Hunting heretics ’cause you’ve nothing better to do (heresy, heterodoxy, orthodoxy, Owen Strachan, Rachel Held Evans)
May 21 - You can’t judge a book by its cover: A Review of “Death Before the Fall” (animal suffering, creationism, evolution, fundamentalism, hermeneutics, natural evil, review, Ronald Osborn, theodicy, theology)
May 20 - Maternal God, Godly Mothers (feminist theology, image of God, motherhood, sermon, theology)
May 19 - Scientism and Metaphysics-of-the-Gaps (God of the gaps, metaphysics, philosophy of science, science, scientism)
May 17 - What are the chances? (atheism, cosmic fine-tuning, God, intelligent design, Richard Dawkins, theism, universe)
May 16 - Is evolution the easiest theory to disprove? A Response to Denis Lamoureux (Denis Lamoureux, falsification, philosophy of science, science, theory)
May 15 - An Evolving Evangelical Debate: A review of “Four Views on The Historical Adam” (Bible, book review, Darwin, evolution, Four views on The Historical Adam, hermeneutics, interpretation, review, theology)
May 14 - Worship. It’s a feeling, right? (church, feeling, subjectivity, worship)
May 13 - 47. The Devil’s in the Music: On growing up evangelical in the 80s (backmasking, culture, demons, devil, dispensationalism, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, Hal Lindsey, Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven)
May 11 - Does religion cause more conflict than politics or sports? (conflict, religion)
May 10 - Here comes the Sensus Divinitatis again! (epistemology, justification, knowledge, rationality, sensus divinitatis)
May 9 - God and the Burden of Proof (atheism, burden of proof, debate, theism)
May 7 - 46. Kelly Kapic on A Little Book for New Theologians (A little book for new theologians, doctrine, God, Kelly Kapic, systematic theology, theologian, theology)
May 7 - A Look at Fraternite’s Thesis (relativism, subjectivism, truth)
May 6 - Is “God’s not Dead” a modern classic? (aesthetics, film criticism, movies)
May 5 - Is it elitist to lament the popularity of superhero movies? (culture, elitism, film, movies)
May 4 - Who can save the box office from superhero movies? (humor, movies, pop culture, superhero)
May 3 - Comb-overs, rationality, and eternal decisions (comb-over, damnation, providence, salvation)
May 3 - 45. Randal on Divine Violence in the Bible (Bible, ethics, hermeneutics, inspiration, revelation)
May 1 - Chicken soup for the motorcycling soul (motorcycle, philosophy, wisdom)
April 30 - How do you preach killing babies? A sermon on the Imprecatory Psalms (Bible, hermeneutics, imprecatory psalms, inspiration, revelation, scripture, sermon)
April 29 - Has morality been hijacked by religion? (ethics, God, metaethics, morality, theism)
April 29 - Canadian war criminals? (ethics, nationalism, Noam Chomsky)
April 28 - To bomb or not to bomb. Is this really a question? (bomb, ethics, Japan, war)
April 26 - Does God’s perfection undermine petitionary prayer? (Anselm, foreknowledge, God, perfect being, petitionary prayer, providence)
April 25 - 44. Travis Dumsday on the atheist’s duty to pray
April 25 - How to destroy your enemies: An excerpt from “You’re not as Crazy as I Think” (dialogue, You're not as crazy as I think)
April 23 - Solitary Nation: A foretaste of hell? (criminal justice, Frontline, hell, jurisprudence, justice, punishment, review, Solitary Nation)
April 23 - Joshua 6 in Zondervan’s True Images Bible (Bible, genocide, herem, hermeneutics, inspiration, Joshua, Larry Norman, revelation)
April 22 - Hell and the so-called liberal mind (eternal conscious torment, ethics, Francis Chan, hell)
April 20 - Was Dennis Jernigan miraculously delivered from homosexuality? (deliverance, ethics, God, homosexuality, miracle)
April 20 - He is risen, isn’t he? (doctrine, doubt, doxastic community, faith, resurrection)
April 19 - One person’s wrestling with tales of mass murder is another person’s belly laugh (culture, perspectivalism, rationality, reason, village atheism)
April 18 - 43. Can pedophiles be saved? A conversation with Scott Drennan (ethics, jurisprudence, pedophile, redemption, retributive justice, salvation, sex offender, sin)
April 17 - Must you set aside your beliefs when addressing problems with them? (inquiry, intellectual honesty, truth)
April 16 - Let’s talk about violence: Discussions on the Bible (Bible, church, ethics, hermeneutics, interpretation, violence)
April 15 - The Bible and Violence: A Bibliography (Bible, ethics, hermeneutics, inspiration, violence)
April 14 - Gays don’t become straight. So what now? (Bible, Christianity, ethics, homosexuality, Justin Lee, reparative therapy, theology)
April 13 - Reciprocal Altruism: an adequate basis for moral action? (ethics, metaethics, morality, reciprocal altruism)
April 12 - “We do not know what a Jew is. We know only men.” Hospitality by example (definition, hospitality, parable)
April 11 - For Jesus and Angels? The off-putting side of Christian hospitality (ethics, hospitality)
April 10 - Should Christians keep speaking of paradise lost? (Eden, natural evil, protology, science, the fall)
April 9 - 42. Peter Enns on Inerrancy and the Bible (Bible, inerrancy, inspiration, interview, Peter Enns, scripture, theology)
April 8 - God? Science? Evolution? Historical Adam? Explore the issues with Denis Lamoureux (Bible, creation, creationism, Denis Lamoureux, evolution, historical Adam, science, theology, webinar)
April 7 - Why more atheists need to speak out against village atheism (atheism, skepticism, village atheism)
April 5 - Does the Copernican Principle favor atheism? (atheism, Carl Sagan, cosmology, Jeffery Jay Lowder, metaphysics, naturalism, universe)
April 4 - The Mystery of the Dreaming Mind (dream, mind, sleep)
April 4 - Are we horrified by hell because we aren’t holy enough? (eternal conscious torment, eternity, God, hell, holiness, judgment)
April 3 - How we try to avoid coming to terms with hell (Part 1): Make it small (C.S. Lewis, character formation, doctrine, hell, sanctification, spiritual formation)
April 2 - Hell, right doctrine, and right character (Augustine, Bible, Eric Seibert, hell, hermeneutics, Robin Parry, violence)
April 1 - Two visions of the Good: Cadillac vs. Ford (Cadillac, consumerism, Ford, materialism)
April 1 - Heaven, hope, and my dad’s eightieth birthday (existentialism, heaven, hope, immortality)
March 31 - 41. Robin Parry on Universal Salvation (atonement, doctrine, hell, orthodoxy, Robin Parry, salvation, soteriology, universalism)
March 29 - Finding Jesus at the movies, but not in the Jesus movies (Jesus, movies, review, Short Term 12)
March 28 - Fundraising and the ethics of child evangelism (child evangelism, compassion, conversion, ethics)
March 27 - Outraged at homosexuality, but unaware of genocide, and not angered by poverty? (ethics, evangelicalism, gay marriage, genocide, homosexuality, hypocrisy, morality, World Vision)
March 26 - Stop supporting World Vision? On the ethical vision of some conservative evangelicals (Bible, ethics, gay marriage, homosexuality, Matthew Anderson, World Vision)
March 25 - God, the Bible, and the Skeptics: A Wrap Up and Debrief (Bible, defeater, hermeneutics, inspiration, Jason Thibodeau, revelation)
March 24 - Attacking the Bible by endorsing the absurd? (Bible, ethics, hermeneutics, inspiration, Jason Thibodeau, revelation)
March 23 - The Bible and the Moral Artist Principle: A response to Jason Thibodeau (Bible, biblical violence, hermeneutics, inerrancy, inspiration, Jason Thibodeau)
March 22 - God and Gus Van Sant: Two morally irresponsible artists? (Bible, biblical violence, defeater, hermeneutics, inspiration, revelation)
March 21 - The Bible, the Americana Omnibus, and the brilliantly subtle classic (Bible, defeater, hermeneutics, inspiration, revelation)
March 20 - 40. Oliver Crisp on the God of the Philosophers and the God of the Bible (Bible, hermeneutics, Oliver Crisp, philosophy, theology)
March 19 - Trash the text? The Bible and its critics (Bible, hermeneutic, inspiration)
March 18 - Existential musings on Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 (Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, mystery, technology)
March 17 - Thoughts on universalism and hope (a response to Nate) (defeater, hope, justification, rationality, universalism)
March 15 - Heaven and the occasional evidentialist (doctrine, evidentialism, heaven, skepticism, theology)
March 14 - Peter Boghossian’s Manual for Wasting Paper (Part 9): Don’t be a jerk (A Manual for Creating Atheists, atheism, evangelism, Peter Boghossian, review)
March 13 - Atheism, free thought, and Bible burning (atheism, free society, free thought, The atheist missionary, theism)
March 12 - Change the world, one loan at a time (charity, development, Kiva, support)
March 12 - The stellar new “Cosmos”: A Review (cosmos, Neil deGrasse Tyson)
March 11 - 39. Matthew Flannagan on God, ethics, and divine commands (Bible, biblical violence, divine command, ethics, hermeneutics, interview, Matthew Flannagan, metaethics, podcast)
March 10 - Books on heaven and evidence for heaven (book, heaven)
March 9 - How rational is atheist disbelief? (atheism, Christianity, Emma Tom, evidence, rationality, theism)
March 8 - The problem of suffering and the Napkin Note Dad (God, problem of evil, suffering, theodicy)
March 7 - Randal talks heaven on CHRI 99.1 FM (heaven, radio interview)
March 7 - Peter Boghossian’s Manual for Wasting Paper (Part 8): Anti-religious indoctrination (atheism, indoctrination, Peter Boghossian, review, secularism, skepticism)
March 6 - Why Ken’s Ark really is a bad idea (Ken Ham, kitsch, Noah's ark, theme park)
March 5 - Limiting technological interruption as Lenten Observance (fasting, Lent, observance)
March 5 - When God goes to church does he wear a suit and tie? (casual, church, formal, liturgy, prayer)
March 3 - 38. Justin Schieber on atheism and theism (atheism, God, interview, Justin Schieber, philosophy of religion, podcast, theism)
March 2 - Celebrating the publication of my 1500th article with a look back… (blog, Tentative Apologist)
March 1 - A defense of Ken Ham’s fake Noah’s Ark (creationism, evolution, fundamentalism, Ken Ham, Noah's ark, satire)
March 1 - All is Lost: A Review (All is Lost, review, Robert Redford)
March 1 - God, Christianity, and the Bad Hyundai Objection (confirmation bias, God, religion)
February 28 - Christians hate homosexuals because they haven’t narrated their lives
February 28 - Can the saved lose their salvation? (arminianism, Calvinism, election, knowledge, reprobation, salvation)
February 27 - Former Christian heavy metal singer Tim Lambesis convicted of conspiracy to commit murder (As I Lay Dying, conviction, murder, Tim Lambesis)
February 26 - Should conservative Christians care about the persecution of Uganda’s homosexuals? (Christian, ethics, homosexuality, persecution)
February 25 - Peter Boghossian’s Manual for Wasting Paper (Part 7): Doxastic Closure (A Manual for Creating Atheists, doxastic closure, indoctrination, Peter Boghossian, review)
February 24 - Atheists have lots of religious beliefs, and why it matters (atheism, epistemology, justification, knowledge, rationality, reason, religion)
February 24 - Randal talks heaven on Faith Radio Mornings (heaven, interview, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven)
February 24 - Peter Boghossian’s Manual for Wasting Paper (Part 6): Defining Agnosticism (A Manual for Creating Atheists, agnosticism, definition, Peter Boghossian, review)
February 22 - Boghossian’s book helps explain John Loftus’ recent meltdown (ideology, John Loftus, Peter Boghossian)
February 22 - The Problem of Testimonial Underdetermination (epistemology, justification, knowledge, rationality, testimony)
February 21 - Loftus admits Boghossian doesn’t care about truth. I call that bogusian! (bullshit, ethics, John Loftus, Peter Boghossian, rhetoric, truth)
February 21 - 37. Mark Roncace on Raw Revelation (Bible, ethics, hermeneutics, inspiration, interview, Mark Roncace, revelation)
February 20 - John Loftus wants me to exercise the principle of charity … and Pig Pen wants Charlie Brown to take a bath (hermeneutics, John Loftus, Peter Boghossian, principle of charity)
February 20 - John Loftus defends Boghossian’s “rhetoric” because the man has found “the truth” (A Manual for Creating Atheists, evangelism, fundamentalism, John Loftus, Peter Boghossian, rhetoric, village atheism)
February 20 - John W. Loftus defends Peter Boghossian (John Loftus, Peter Boghossian, strawman)
February 18 - Testimony, God, and, er, a glass of milk (epistemology, God, justification, knowledge, rationality, testimony)
February 17 - Peter Boghossian’s Manual for Wasting Paper (Part 5): Defining Atheism (A Manual for Creating Atheists, atheism, fundamentalism, Peter Boghossian, review, village atheist)
February 16 - Is atheism a default position? (atheism, Julian Baggini, naturalism, theism)
February 14 - Peter Boghossian’s Manual for Wasting Paper (Part 4): Faith (A Manual for Creating Atheists, epistemology, faith, Peter Boghossian, review)
February 14 - Bore-hole samples and bad methods (apologetics, ethics, method, Peter Boghossian)
February 14 - Peter Boghossian’s Manual for Wasting Paper (Part 3): Deepities (A Manual for Creating Atheists, Daniel Dennett, deepity, hermeneutics, Peter Boghossian, review)
February 12 - Peter Boghossian’s Manual for Wasting Paper (Part 2) (A Manual for Creating Atheists, atheism, epistemology, Peter Boghossian, philosophy, review)
February 12 - Peter Boghossian’s Manual for Wasting Paper (Part 1) (A Manual for Creating Atheists, apologetics, atheism, fundamentalism, Michael Shermer, Peter Boghossian, review)
February 11 - 36. David Goa on Religion in the Public Square (David Goa, ethics, interview, podcast, political theology, religion)
February 10 - The Quest for the Trinity: A Review (God, review, Stephen R. Holmes, The Quest for the Trinity, Trinity. theology)
February 9 - What I’ve learned from the scary balloon (balloon, ethics, wisdom)
February 9 - God knows when you tip (and other benefits of providence) (God, justice, providence, tip)
February 8 - Farewell Jay Leno (Jay Leno, Tonight Show)
February 7 - Do human beings have spectral bodies? (afterlife, anthropology, death, dualism, ghost)
February 6 - Keeping an open mind about aliens (aliens, ET, skepticism)
February 5 - 35. Kevin Miller on The Chicken Manure Incident (church, documentary, ethics, homelessness, Kevin Miller, movie, poverty)
February 4 - NDEs and those determined not to believe in them (afterlife, dualism, evidence, NDE, OBE, Sam Harris, science)
February 4 - Sprites and near death experiences (NDE, OBE, science, sprite)
February 3 - If Woody Allen is a pedophile, should we boycott his movies? (abuse, Dylan Farrow, ethics, film, pedophilia, Woody Allen)
February 1 - An Unbelievable debate on heaven with the Friendly Atheist (afterlife, Friendly Atheist, heaven, Hemant Mehta, Justin Brierley, NDE, OBE, Unbelievable)
February 1 - Is God a user? A response to Nate’s Principle (apologetics, defense, Nate, problem of evil, theodicy, utilitarianism)
January 31 - I was creeped out by a happy face balloon (balloon, fear, rationality)
January 31 - Will cowards inherit the kingdom of God? (eschatology, heaven, problem of evil, theodicy)
January 30 - Evil and Nate’s Principle (atheism, ethics, God, philosophy, problem of evil, providence, utilitarianism)
January 30 - A Martian’s perspective on the problem of evil (apologetics, defense, Eleonore Stump, problem of evil, suffering, theodicy)
January 29 - 34. Wes Olmstead on the Sermon on the Mount (Bible, ethics, gospel, interview, Jesus, New Testament, podcast, Sermon on the Mount, Wes Olmstead)
January 28 - Are all atheists irrational? (atheism, Chris Hallquist, debate, rationality, Reasonable Doubts, theism)
January 28 - Wandering in Darkness: A Review (apologetics, defense, Eleonore Stump, epistemology, philosophy, problem of evil, review, theodicy, Wandering in Darkness)
January 26 - “That says it all for me!” Free thinkers who are the enemies of free thought (atheism, Daniel Dennett, free thought, Jonathan Pearce, skepticism)
January 25 - Will Bibleman defeat Boghossian’s Epistemic Knight? (Bibleman, kitsch, Peter Boghossian, pop culture)
January 24 - Does Greater Goods theodicy undermine moral action? (defense, God, problem of evil, providence, theodicy)
January 24 - 33. Paul Copan on Apologetics (apologetics, interview, Paul Copan, philosophy, theology)
January 22 - Is Peter Boghossian guilty of hate speech? (atheism, fanatic, hate speech, ideology, open society, Peter Boghossian, theism)
January 22 - 40,000 comments … and counting (blog)
January 21 - The rationality of theism and the problem of evil (atheism, Chris Hallquist, problem of evil, rationality, Reasonable Doubts, theism)
January 21 - Peter Boghossian on his opponents (A Manual for Creating Atheists, atheism, dogma, fundamentalism, Peter Boghossian)
January 20 - What does it mean to be an atheist today? (Part 2) (analysis, atheism, definition, theism)
January 19 - Is belief in God rational? My Reasonable Doubts debate with Chris Hallquist (atheism, belief, Chris Hallquist, epistemology, knowledge, rationality, reason, Reasonable Doubts, theism)
January 19 - What does it mean to be an atheist today? (Part 1) (atheism, definition, God, theism, theology)
January 16 - One man’s theist is another man’s atheist (atheism, concepts, theism, theology)
January 16 - Thomas Nagel vs. the Atheistic Fundamentalists (apologetics, atheism, Counter Apologist, Thomas Nagel)
January 14 - Can you be indoctrinated into atheism? (atheism, delusion, indoctrination, Mike D, theism)
January 14 - 32. Fred Sanders on the Trinity (Fred Sanders, The Deep Things of God, theology, Trinity)
January 12 - Christians reason from Christian assumptions! Who woulda thunk it? (Christianity, Edward Babinski, presuppositions, theology, worldview)
January 12 - The scandalous ‘Sound of Music’ and other favorite examples of Christian legalism (Christianity, ethics, God, legalism, morality, mores)
January 10 - Why Jesus almost certainly had some errant theological beliefs (christology, doctrine, Jesus, kenoticism, omniscience, paradox, theology)
January 10 - Will there be deafness in heaven? What about cancer? (cancer, culture, Deaf, deafness, healing, heaven)
January 8 - 31. Eric Seibert on biblical violence and the Canaanites (Bible, Eric Seibert, ethics, hermeneutics, Old Testament, violence)
January 8 - Atheism, apologetics, and the revealing off-hand comment (apologetics, atheism, Jonathan Pearce, theism dialogue)
January 5 - Russell Blackford, the Vacuous Atheist Critic (atheism, fundamentalism, God or Godless, John Loftus, naturalism)
January 4 - John Hagee needs help insulting atheists (atheism, despotism, John Hagee)
January 3 - Is it wrong to shape Christian doctrine by human experience? (Bible, doctrine, ethics, theology)
January 1 - 30. Roger Olson on Calvinism and Arminianism (arminianism, Calvinism, election, predestination, providence, Roger Olson, theology)

2013

December 31 - The ethics of the bank error (ethics, Monopoly)
December 31 - Rage against the dying of the light: A New Year’s Wish (Christianity, existentialism, mortality, theology)
December 29 - RD Miksa on the evidentiary value of eye-witness testimony (epistemology, evidence, rationality, RD Miksa, testimony)
December 27 - A taste worth acquiring: A review of “Inside Llewyn Davis” (Coen Brothers, film, Inside Llewyn Davis, Oscar Isaac, review)
December 27 - Why “The Wolf of Wall Street” is an evil, despicable film (evil, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorcese, psychopath, psychopathy, The Wolf of Wall Street)
December 25 - What is the point of counterfeit covers? Bah, humbug. (cover, Greg Lake, Honeymoon Suite, music, recording)
December 24 - These are a few of my favorite things (where “things” = Christmas songs) (Christmas songs, Dan Fogelberg, Extreme, Jim Croce, Smashing Pumpkins, Vince Guaraldi)
December 23 - Miracles and the old “testimony is unreliable so we can ignore miracle claims” chestnut (apologetics, epistemology, justification, miracles, reason, skepticism)
December 23 - 29. Craig Keener on miracles (apologetics, Craig Keener, David Hume, history, miracles, providence)
December 22 - Twelve (or more) Reasons to Listen to The Tentative Apologist Podcast (apologetics, interview, Tentative Apologist Podcast, theology)
December 21 - Don’t confuse moral courage with irrational dogmatism (Calvinism, courage, divine nature, epistemology, God, rationality, theology)
December 20 - If God wants to damn your children, should you agree? (Calvinism, election, John Piper, providence, Reformed, reprobation, theology)
December 19 - What’s so Calvinistic about John Piper’s “The Calvinist”? (arminianism, Calvinism, election, John Piper, Reformed, theology)
December 17 - People who ride scooters aren’t all wusses (humor, prejudice)
December 16 - Randal talks on The Bob Dutko Show (Bob Dutko, dialogue, interview, radio, You're not as crazy as I think)
December 15 - 28. Robin Parry on demons (Bible, demon possession, demons, exorcism, Jesus, Robin Parry, supernatural)
December 13 - God or Godless-The Other Cover (cover, God or Godless)
December 13 - God was in Christ reconciling the world … but how exactly? (atonement, doctrine, reconciliation, theology, theory)
December 11 - My interview on The Debbie Chavez Show is available (Debbie Chavez, heaven, interview, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven)
December 11 - Stephen and Steven both review “God or Godless” (apologetics, God or Godless, John Loftus, review)
December 11 - My heaven interview on The Debbie Chavez Show (Debbie Chavez, heaven, interview)
December 10 - 27. Yoram Hazony on the Bible as philosophy (Bible, hermeneutics, interpretation, philosophy, reason, revelation, Yoram Hazony)
December 8 - Liar, Liar, soul on fire! (Bible, blog, dishonesty, evolution, fundamentalism, Peter Enns)
December 7 - Blessed are the unreflective? (freedom, orthodoxy, theology)
December 6 - The Cool Pastor (Clay Morgan, culture, Jr. Forasteros, Matt Mikalatos, pastor, Storymen)
December 5 - A theologian muses on “Avatar” (Avatar, film, review, science fiction)
December 4 - 26. Peter Enns on faith, the Bible, and evolution (Bible, Darwin, inspiration, interview, Old Testament, Peter Enns, science. evolution)
December 3 - Jesus was a conservative, wasn’t he? (ethics, Jesus, politics)
December 2 - Snapshots from Baltimore (Part 5): Inactive activists for environmental justice (environmentalism, ethics, evangelicalism)
December 1 - How (not) to make Jesus in your image: A review of “Imaginary Jesus” (humor, Imaginary Jesus, Matt Mikalatos, review)
November 30 - My debate with John Loftus on YouTube (apologetics, debate, God, John Loftus)
November 30 - Randal on The Storymen Podcast (Clay Morgan, interview, Jr. Forasteros, Matt Mikalatos, podcast, The Storymen)
November 29 - The right to die? You don’t know Jack. A review (Al Pacino, bioethics, euthanasia, HBO, physician-assisted suicide, review, You Don't Know Jack)
November 26 - 25. Do the gospels have errors? Michael Licona’s new insights on ancient history (Bible, historiography, history, interview, Michael Licona)
November 24 - Snapshots from Baltimore (Part 4): The Gideons Bible (Bible, culture, enculturation)
November 23 - Snapshots from Baltimore (Part 3): The evolution of theology (evolution, science, theology)
November 22 - Snapshots from Baltimore (Part 2): The perpetually missing thirteenth floor (belief, justiication, rationality, reason, superstition)
November 22 - Snapshots from Baltimore (Part 1) (Baltimore, complementarianism, egalitarianism, ETS, evangelicalism)
November 19 - 24. Travis Dumsday on evil and divine hiddenness (intelligent design, interview, philosophy, philosophy of science, science, Travis Dumsday)
November 17 - Straw men and straw characters (straw character, straw man, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails)
November 15 - Reading the Bible informed by conscience (Bible, general revelation, hermeneutics, inerrancy, inspiration, Martin Luther, moral perception, natural law)
November 14 - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford charged with hating Christmas and heading drug cartel (Rob Ford, satire)
November 14 - Materialist epiphanies, reductive delusions (atheism, free thought, materialism, naturalism, skepticism)
November 13 - A review of “God or Godless”, inerrancy, and begging the question (God or Godless, inerrancy, inspiration, review)
November 10 - Theism, naturalism, and strawmen (atheism, invisible gardener, naturalism, strawman, theism)
November 9 - Smith, Jones, and wandering into “Wandering in the Darkness” (analytic philosophy, Eleonore Stump, evil, narrative, Wandering in the Darkness)
November 7 - Still more evangelistic tracts so bad that they’re good (damnation, Jack Chick, Pelagianism, salvation, soteriology, tracts)
November 6 - 23. In Search of the Gospel: A Reformation Day Talk by Randal (doctrine, podcast, Reformation, salvation)
November 6 - More evangelistic tracts so bad that they’re good (evangelism, tract)
November 5 - Is it time to reestablish state-based beheading? (capital punishment, ethics, Slate)
November 4 - Are the orthodox better off than the heretical? (Dale Tuggy, epistemic virtue, heresy, orthodoxy, Trinity, Unitarianism)
November 4 - Randal talking Heaven on Amplify with Father Ron (Amplify, Father Ron, heaven, interview, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven)
November 3 - Two hours on heaven (heaven, interview)
November 2 - A Review of William Alston, “A Sensible Metaphysical Realism” (A Sensible Metaphysical Realism, antirealism, metaphysics, philosophy, realism, review, William Alston)
October 31 - 22. Father Matthew Hysell on God, the Church and the Deaf (Catholicism, Deaf, interview, Matthew Hysell, Roman Catholic)
October 30 - The Swedish Atheist ebook is free on October 30th only! And half-price for November (free, promotion, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails)
October 28 - Is naturalism in crisis? A review of “Naturalism: A Critical Analysis” (apologetics, atheism, J.P. Moreland, materialism, naturalism, physicalism, review, theism, William Lane Craig)
October 26 - The Church in a Postliberal Age: A Review (George Lindbeck, postliberalism, review, The Church in a Postliberal Age, theology)
October 25 - The chimera of “In light of the best current arguments and evidence, is it rational to believe a god exists?” (evidence, justification, rationality)
October 24 - Randal talks God or Godless on 99.1 CHRI FM (God or Godless, interview, John Loftus)
October 23 - Is belief in God irrational? My soon-to-be-released debate with Chris Hallquist (Chris Hallquist, God, Justin Schieber, rationality, theism, You're not as crazy as I think)
October 22 - Rethinking Fundamental Theology: A Review (Gerald O'Collins, prolegomena, Rethinking Fundamental Theology, review, theological method, theology)
October 20 - 21. Depression and Christianity: An interview with Stefano Piva (depression, interview, podcast, Stefano Piva)
October 18 - Predestination. Biblical and Theological Paths: A Review (Calvinism, God, Matthew Levering, predestination, providence, review, theology, Thomism)
October 17 - Process Theology. A Guide for the Perplexed: A Review (Bruce Epperly, Process theology, review)
October 15 - Why Jesus was NOT “tempted” (and why it matters) (christology, hamartiology, impeccability, Jesus Christ, sin)
October 14 - 20. Theologian Michael Hardin on violence and atonement (atonement, Michael Hardin, Rene Girard, violence)
October 12 - The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: A Review (Bible, ethics, Hebrews, Israel, philosophy, reason, revelation, Yoram Hazony)
October 12 - A new direction for the blog (blog)
October 11 - Further changes at the website
October 11 - Blogger Mark Hamilton reviews What on Earth do we Know About Heaven? (heaven, review, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven)
October 11 - The New Reviews Section (review)
October 10 - If Malala had died, would she have gone to hell? (damnation, exclusivism, hell, inclusivism, Malala, salvation, soteriology)
October 7 - 19. Mark Buchanan on becoming an Acts church (church, ecclesiology, evangelism, gospel, kingdom, Mark Buchanan, mission)
October 5 - Cooling Twilight reviews “What on Earth Do We Know About Heaven?” (afterlife, eschatology, heaven, review, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven)
October 5 - Randal talks heaven on The Bob Dutko Show (afterlife, Bob Dutko, eschatology, heaven, interview, Randal Rauser)
October 4 - What I’ve been up to (not that you care) (Randal Hellbound?)
September 30 - 18. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here? Filmmaker Kevin Miller reconsiders the doctrine of hell (eschatology, hell, Hellbound?, interview, Kevin Miller, universalism)
September 30 - “God or Godless” is reviewed in Faith Today (Faith Today, God or Godless, review)
September 28 - 17. Randal asks “Does Heaven Need a Makeover?” (afterlife, eschatology, heaven, Randal Rauser)
September 27 - What hath zombies to do with theology? An interview with Clay Morgan (afterlife, Clay Morgan, popular culture, resurrection, theology, vampires, zombies)
September 27 - Bruno Mars on beauty and happiness: An exercise in taking vacuous pop lyrics seriously (Bruno Mars, happiness, pop culture)
September 25 - 16. Gordon T. Smith on Christian conversion (Christianity, church, conversion, discipleship, evangelism, Gordon T. Smith, holiness, interview)
September 24 - Mark Roncace, Provocateur (Bible, inspiration, Mark Roncace, Raw Revelation, revelation)
September 23 - How raw the revelation? A review of Mark Roncace’s “Raw Revelation” (Bible, biblical violence, Mark Roncace, Raw Revelation, revelation, review)
September 22 - Quantum Gravity? Wow
September 20 - Evangelistic tracts so bad that they’re good (evangelism, tract)
September 19 - From pious Christian to German atheist in ten easy steps (atheism, theology)
September 18 - Randal’s book on Heaven is now in stock at Amazon.com! (heaven, Randal Rauser, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven)
September 17 - 15. Was Jesus an anarchist? An interview with the Pirate Pastor (anarchism, pastor, podcast, Shawn Briss)
September 16 - Putting Away Childish Things: A Review (Marcus Borg, novel, review, theology)
September 14 - On Fermi’s Paradox and the earth as a wildlife preserve (alien, ETI, Fermi's paradox)
September 11 - 14. Do pastors know what to do with the Bible? An interview with Pastor Tyler Williams (Bible, inerrancy, inspiration, Tyler Williams)
September 10 - Neil deGrasse Tyson’s incredibly confused comments on atheism and agnosticism (agnosticism, atheism, Neil deGrasse Tyson)
September 10 - Attention bloggers interested in reviewing my new book on heaven (heaven, review, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven)
September 9 - Responding to Christians who are skeptical that we can know anything about heaven (David Marshall, epistemology, heaven, knowledge)
September 8 - Do churches really care about truth? (Acts, church, debate, Paul, truth)
September 6 - Randal interviews himself on his new book “What on Earth do we Know about Heaven?” (Baker Books, eschatology, heaven, Randal Rauser, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven)
September 4 - Is it egotistical to think God answered a prayer about the weather? (God, prayer, providence, weather)
September 3 - Voodoo and beyond: A response to Tyler Wunder (epistemology, foundationalism, proper basicality, Tyler Wunder)
September 2 - A Second Quick Response to Randal Rauser’s Critique of Universal Sanction (by Tyler Wunder) (epistemology, foundationalism, proper basicality, reason, Tyler Wunder)
September 2 - A Quick Response to Randal Rauser’s Critique of Universal Sanction (by Tyler Wunder) (Alvin Plantinga, epistemology, foundationalism, proper basicality, rationality, Tyler Wunder)
August 31 - Puppeteer and predator, cannibal and … Christian? (predation, psychopath, Robert Brown)
August 30 - 13. Is John Loftus still a fundamentalist? (The Loftus Rauser Road Trip Part 5)
August 28 - Jerry Coyne attributes the return of measles to religion (atheism, Jerry Coyne, religion)
August 27 - A spooky Jesus? (art, Jesus, piety)
August 26 - Must properly basic beliefs have universal sanction? A reply to James F. Sennett (Part 2) (Alvin Plantinga, epistemology, foundationalism, James Sennett, proper basicality, reason)
August 23 - Why I haven’t been blogging much lately (blog, writing)
August 18 - Why bother with the philosophy of religion? A theologian answers (analytic philosophy, Analytic theology, philosophy of religion)
August 18 - Can you prove that God exists? (God, philosophy of religion, proof, theism)
August 14 - Are atheists really the most colossally smug and annoying people on the planet? (atheism, Christianity, fundamentalism, theism)
August 13 - Must properly basic beliefs have universal sanction? A Reply to James F. Sennett (Part 1) (epistemology, James Sennett, justification, knowledge, proper basicality, rationality, reason)
August 12 - The preview for my new book on heaven is now on Amazon (Amazon.com, heaven, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven)
August 12 - 12. A conversation on scripture as narrative with biblical scholar Keith Bodner (Bible, Deuteronomistic history, drama, inspiration, interview, Keith Bodner, narrative, Old Testament, scripture)
August 10 - The Bible Babinski thinks God should have written: On “The Christian Delusion” (Part 9) (Bible, Edward Babinski, inspiration, revelation, The Christian Delusion)
August 10 - Put the phone away when you drive: A short film by Werner Herzog that you simply must watch (driving, fiilm, texting, Werner Herzog)
August 8 - Faith or skepticism? On “The Christian Delusion” (Part 8) (John Loftus, review, The Christian Delusion)
August 7 - Debriefing The Darwin Fundamentalists (atheism, free thought, skepticism)
August 5 - The Darwinian Fundamentalists (atheism, Darwinism, evolution, naturalism, science, theism)
August 4 - 11. Loftus and Rauser talk natural theology and the Trinity (The Loftus Rauser Road trip Part 4) (atheism, God or Godless, John Loftus, natural theology, podcast)
August 4 - Finally! A devotional for cool kids!
July 27 - I’m taking a vacation from blogging (blogging)
July 27 - Have atheologians made a single contribution to knowledge? (metaphysics, science, scientism, theology)
July 26 - 10. A conversation with physicist Don Page (Part 2) (creation, Don Page, God, interview, physics, science, Tentative Apologist Podcast, theology)
July 25 - Have theologians made a single contribution to knowledge? (atheism, Lawrence Krauss, scientism, theology)
July 24 - Another pale blue dot (cosmos, Neil deGrasse Tyson, trailer)
July 23 - Are atheists wicked … or just foolish? A review of James Spiegel, “The Making of an Atheist” (apologetics, atheism, James Spiegel)
July 23 - “The Unanimous Consensus of Rational People”: On “The Christian Delusion” (Part 7) (atheism, Christianity, Jason Long, religion, review, skepticism, The Christian Delusion)
July 22 - The taboos of identity (political correctness, race)
July 21 - Everyone’s irrational; therefore Christians are irrational (On “The Christian Delusion” Part 6) (review, The Christian Delusion, Valerie Tarico)
July 19 - 9. A conversation with physicist Don Page (Part 1) (Big Bang, Christianity, Don Page, physics, science)
July 18 - Stephen Law accuses me of writing a shoddy review … and then responds in kind (Believing Bullshit, review, Stephen Law)
July 18 - Those Cunning Christians: On “The Christian Delusion” (Part 5) (atheism, Christianity, David Eller, John Loftus, review, The Christian Delusion)
July 17 - Does theology make God ugly? (aesthetics, God, mystery, theology)
July 16 - Does Ganesha answer prayer? (coincidence, Hinduism, prayer, providence, religion)
July 15 - 8. A conversation on the Incarnate God with theologian Oliver Crisp (christology, incarnation, interview, Oliver Crisp, philosophical theology)
July 14 - Finding Divine Signs: A response to Jonathan Pearce (agency, explanation, Jonathan Pearce, miracle, naturalism)
July 13 - Christian flip-flopping? On “The Christian Delusion” (Part 4) (John Loftus, review, The Christian Delusion)
July 12 - The mystery of extreme grace (grace)
July 11 - Evolution debunked in sixteen minutes! (evolution, Ray Comfort)
July 11 - Chameleon Christianity? On “The Christian Delusion” (Part 3) (George Michael, review, The Christian Delusion)
July 10 - A visit from the aliens? (humor, worldview)
July 10 - A final critique of Luke Galen’s Statement on religiosity and bias (Luke Galen, Reasonable Doubts, religion)
July 9 - Puffing up the studies? Another response to Luke Galen (Luke Galen, puffing, Reasonable Doubts)
July 8 - Now Dave Fletcher doesn’t care for my glasses. When will the personal attacks stop?! (Dave Fletcher, humor, Reasonable Doubts)
July 8 - 7. Is it time for apologetics to end? An interview with Myron Penner (apologetics, Myron Penner, podcast)
July 7 - Religiosity never leads to a decrease in bias? Reasonable doubts about Luke Galen (atheism, cognitive bias, Luke Galen, Reasonable Doubts, theism)
July 6 - Reasonable insults? (fundamentalism, Reasonable Doubts)
July 6 - Proof of Heaven? Not so much. (afterlife, Eben Alexander, heaven, Proof of Heaven)
July 5 - “This book completely destroys Christianity”: On “The Christian Delusion” (Part 1) (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, John Loftus, review, The Christian Delusion)
July 4 - Reality is just like you think: More reasonable doubts about Reasonable Doubts (atheism, Reasonable Doubts, skepticism, theism)
July 4 - Schieber, God and Non-God Objects Yet Again (atheism, creation, creator, God, Justin Schieber, theism)
July 3 - Randal Rauser on The Drew Marshall Show debating Justin Trottier of CFI Canada (Drew Marshall Show, interview, radio)
July 3 - Why would a perfect God create? Justin Schieber’s argument revisited (atheism, creation, defeater, God, theism)
July 2 - Atheism deserves better than the New Atheists (atheism, Jonathan Sacks, new atheism)
July 1 - On atheism, morality, and the nature of the debate: A reply to Jeff (atheism, debate, God or Godless, morality)
July 1 - Why atheistic apologists are generally ignorant and/or dishonest according to Chris Hallquist’s methodology (apologetics, atheism, Chris Hallquist, Keith Parsons, Richard Dawkins, theism)
July 1 - Richard Carrier on “God or Godless” (God or Godless, Richard Carrier)
July 1 - God or Godless is FREE for Kindle download today only (July 1st) (God or Godless, Kindle)
July 1 - 6. The Loftus Rauser Road trip: Conversations on God (Part 3) (apologetics, atheism, God or Godless, John Loftus, podcast, theism)
June 29 - Randal Rauser is not someone who it’s possible to have any sort of rational discussion about religion with (Chris Hallquist, prejudice)
June 29 - Are Top Scientists Overwhelmingly Atheists? (atheism, science, Steve Miller, survey)
June 28 - 5. The Loftus Rauser Road Trip: Conversations on God (Part 2) (God or Godless, John Loftus, podcast, Tentative Apologist)
June 28 - God and Owl (God, theology)
June 27 - Nate suggests that “God” is a theoretical term. Is he correct? (God, ignosticism, theological language, theology)
June 26 - Ignosticism? A response to Advocatus Atheist (Advocatus Atheist, atheism, God, meaning, reference, theism, Tristan Vick)
June 25 - Pastor, tell us what you really think! (pastor)
June 25 - How much freedom would you surrender to live comfortably? (democracy, Edward Snowden, free speech, freedom, whistleblower)
June 25 - Near-Death Experiences Ripe for Philosophical Reflection (by Steve Miller) (afterlife, Near Death Experiences, Steve Miller)
June 25 - Is Edward Snowden a traitor? (democracy, Edward Snowden, media, patriotism, truth)
June 24 - A link back to my review of Stephen Law, “Believing Bullshit” (Believing Bullshit, Stephen Law)
June 24 - A Word from Justin Schieber (Justin Schieber, Reasonable Doubts)
June 24 - Why they don’t believe: Tristan Vick (Advocatus Atheist) (Advocatus Atheist, apologetics, atheism, theism, Tristan Vick, Why they don't believe)
June 24 - The Tentative Apologist Podcast is now available on iTunes (podcast, Tentative Apologist)
June 24 - Can Reasonable Doubts demonstrate which Christian beliefs are clearly false? (atheism, Christianity, evidence, justification, rationality, reason, Reasonable Doubts, theism)
June 24 - Here’s how atheism works? On the presumption of atheists who speak for other atheists (agnosticism, atheism)
June 23 - The abuse of reason (or, why rationality requires a context) (belief, justification, rationality, reason)
June 23 - Is Christianity a big ship of fools? Another response to Reasonable Doubts (dialogue, epistemology, justification, reason, Reasonable Doubts)
June 23 - Why John Loftus and Reasonable Doubts shouldn’t be laughing (atheism, Christianity, John Loftus, Reasonable Doubts, theism)
June 23 - The Great Plains Skeptic reviews “God or Godless” (God or Godless, Great Plains Skeptic, review)
June 22 - Near-Death Experiences: A Review (apologetics, death, NDE, near death experience, Steve Miller)
June 20 - Like two ships passing in the night … Jonathan Pearce’s abortive rebuttal (atheism, Christianity, epistemology, Jonathan Pearce, justification, proper basicality, theism)
June 19 - Holy War in the Bible: A Review (biblical violence, ethics, hermeneutics, Holy War in the Bible, review, theodicy)
June 19 - Intelligent Design: A response to the A-Unicornist (agent cause, intelligent design, philosophy of science)
June 18 - Mocking Christians who believe in talking snakes? A response to The Atheist Missionary (dialogue, epistemology, fundamentalism, justification, mockery, rationality, reason, The atheist missionary, You're not as crazy as I think)
June 17 - 4. The Loftus Rauser Road Trip: Conversations on God (Part 1) (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, free thought, God or Godless, John Loftus, skepticism, theism)
June 17 - 3. God or Godless? The Loftus/Rauser Edmonton Debate (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, debate, God or Godless, John Loftus, Myron Penner, theism)
June 17 - 2. God or Godless? The Loftus/Rauser Calgary Debate (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, debate, God or Godless, John Loftus, theism)
June 17 - Chris Hallquist, fundamentalism, and prejudice against Christian apologists (apologetics, atheism, Chris Hallquist, Christianity, theism)
June 16 - Why they don’t believe: Chris Hallquist (The Uncredible Hallq) (atheism, Chris Hallquist, Christianity, science, theism, Why they don't believe)
June 15 - Randal and John Loftus debate the Outsider Test and Miracles on Unbelievable (God or Godless, John Loftus, Justin Brierley, miracles, outsider test of faith, Unbelievable)
June 14 - Living artwork over the plains of Texas (aesthetics, beauty, natural evil, supercell)
June 14 - Randal talks with the Counter Apologist (atheism, Counter Apologist, metaethics, naturalism)
June 14 - Violence and the Canonical Bible: A Response to Reasonable Doubts (Bible, inspiration, Reasonable Doubts, scripture)
June 13 - Do naturalists have more to lose? If not, why are they crucifying Thomas Nagel? (academic freedom, Norman Finkelstein, Thomas Nagel, truth)
June 13 - Chris Hallquist reviews “God or Godless” (God or Godless, review)
June 12 - Do atheists simply want to know the truth? Does anybody? (atheism, knowledge, rationality, theism)
June 12 - Can there be reasonable nonbelief if God exists? (apologetics, divine hiddenness, God, J.L. Schellenberg, problem of evil, theodicy)
June 11 - The audio for the God or Godless Edmonton Debate is Here! (audio, debate, Edmonton, God or Godless, John Loftus)
June 11 - The Anti-Apologist: Conversations with Myron Penner (apologetics, evidence, Myron Penner, reason, The End of Apologetics)
June 10 - Keith Parsons. Need I say more? (atheism, dialogue, John Loftus, Keith Parsons)
June 10 - Randal talks Crazy belief with Craig Roberts (Craig Roberts, interview, radio, You're not as crazy as I think)
June 10 - Mock beliefs, not people? (belief, dialogue, mockery, open society, ridicule)
June 10 - Laughing at fundamentalists? Lessons from John Loftus and Keith Parsons (dialogue, John Loftus, Keith Parsons, mockery, ridicule)
June 10 - Why they don’t believe: James Lindsay (atheism, James Lindsay, Why they don't believe)
June 9 - How to confound Christians with bad arguments: #6 Which God?; #7 Things we’ve heard before (apologetics, atheism, Society of Edmonton Atheists)
June 8 - God or Godless-The Audio Debate is Here (Calgary, debate, God or Godless, John Loftus)
June 8 - Why they don’t believe: Jeffery Jay Lowder
June 7 - John Loftus blogs about the “God or Godless Tour” (God or Godless, John Loftus)
June 7 - Big Questions … No Easy Answers: A Discussion Series (doubt, problem of evil, salvation, soteriology)
June 6 - Counter Apologist reviews “God or Godless” … and Randal responds (Counter Apologist, God or Godless, review)
June 6 - God or Godless in Edmonton (atheism, debate. Christianity, God or Godless, John Loftus, theism)
June 5 - Born an atheist (atheism, free thought Edward Babinski, theism)
June 5 - God or Godless in Red Deer (atheism, Christianity, debate, God or Godless, John Loftus, theism)
June 4 - Check out God or Godless in the Edmonton Journal (debate, Edmonton Journal, God or Godless)
June 4 - The views of one Christian who was at the God or Godless debate (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, debate, God or Godless, John Loftus, theism)
June 4 - Debating Loftus: An Update (debate, God or Godless, John Loftus)
June 3 - Why they don’t believe: Jonathan MS Pearce (A Tippling Philosopher) (A Tippling Philosopher, atheism, Christianity, Jonathan MS Pearce, skepticism, theism, Why they don't believe)
June 2 - The fall of Tim Lambesis (As I Lay Dying, atheism, Christianity, depravity, sin, theism, Tim Lambesis)
June 2 - Debating God on The Drew Marshall Show (atheism, debate, interview, The Drew Marshall Show)
June 1 - Why they don’t believe: Mike D (The A-Unicornist) (atheism, Mike D, skepticism, The A-Unicornist. Why they don't believe, theism)
May 31 - Why did William Lane Craig violate the first rule of hosting? (Kevin Harris, Reasonable Faith, William Lane Craig)
May 31 - Heaven and the Value in Achievement Thesis (creation, heaven, theodicy)
May 31 - Do Christians and atheists really have to be at war? (atheism, Christianity, dialogue, theism)
May 30 - Heaven and the suffering of infants now (heaven, suffering, theodicy)
May 30 - Why were we created here and not just directly into heaven? (free will, heaven)
May 30 - Why they don’t believe: Edward Babinski (atheism, Christianity, Edward Babinski, skepticism, theism, Why they don't believe)
May 29 - William Alston on naturalism (naturalism, William Alston)
May 29 - The problem of evil as discussed by three Christian philosophers (Meghan Sullivan, problem of evil, Sam Newlands, Trent Dougherty)
May 29 - Naturalism, Christianity, and my Reasonable Doubts about Justin Schieber (atheism, naturalism, probability, theism, worldview)
May 29 - Justin Schieber responds … and then some! (atheism, Doubtcast, Justin Schieber, skepticism, theism)
May 28 - Why they don’t believe: Counter Apologist (apologetics, atheism, Counter Apologist, theism, Why they don't believe)
May 27 - Why they don’t believe: Justin Schieber (atheism, Justin Schieber, Reasonable Doubts, skepticism, Why they don't believe)
May 26 - Gödel the magic genie? (Gödel's incompleteness theorems, logic)
May 26 - The A-Unicornist Replies. But is scientism still in the picture? (A-Unicornist, philosophy, science, scientism)
May 25 - A conversation doomed from the start? Exchanges with The A-Unicornist (A-Unicornist, Mike D, philosophy, science, scientism)
May 24 - A Theologian, An Atheist and A Schmuck walk into a radio show… (Drew Marshall Show, interview)
May 24 - God and the arbitrary attribute charge: A response to Jason Thibodeau (God, Jason Thibodeau, perfect being theology, theism)
May 23 - How to confound Christians with bad arguments: #5 Call them Liars for Jesus (ad hominem, apologetics, liars for Jesus, parody, rhetoric)
May 22 - Adam offers answers for the Swedish Atheist (Adam Omelianchuk, review, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails)
May 22 - Robert Price and winning the debate by fiat (God of the gaps, God or Godless, review, Robert Price)
May 22 - Half-baked evidentialist epistemology (epistemology, evidentialism, foundationalism)
May 21 - The Tenative Apologist Podcast has launched! (Tentative Apologist Podcast)
May 21 - Wildly improbable? Some background reading (atheology, belief, John W. Loftus, justification, probability, rationality)
May 21 - How to confound Christians with bad arguments: #4 Believe what is probable, not merely possible (apologetics, atheism, bad arguments, theism)
May 21 - The latest “God or Godless” review (God or Godless, review)
May 20 - Should Christians hedge their bets? (belief, Christianity, doubt, Pascal's wager)
May 20 - How can Christianity be the only true religion? (Christianity, exclusivism, inclusivism, pluralism, truth)
May 20 - The kalam cosmological argument and libertarian free will (Part 2) (agent cause, efficient cause, Jonathan Pearce, kalam cosmological argument)
May 19 - The kalam cosmological argument and libertarian free will (agent causation, Jonathan Pearce, kalam cosmological argument)
May 19 - Debating John Loftus on the Janet Parshall Show (God or Godless, interview, Janet Parshall, John Loftus)
May 18 - The outhouse, evil and eternity (outhouse, privy, problem of evil)
May 18 - 33,000 denominations. And the problem is…? (church, denominations, divine hiddenness, ecclesiology, ecumenism, problem of evil)
May 17 - Randal speaks at Urban Bridge Church (speaking, Urban Bridge Church)
May 17 - Abortion to save the life of the mother (abortion, Amnesty International)
May 17 - A tippling-too-much philosopher? A response to Jonathan Pearce (apologetics, atheism, debate, God or Godless, John Loftus, Jonathan Pearce, theism)
May 16 - God or Godless Tour Poster and Banner
May 16 - 33,000 denominations, Oy vey! (Christianity, denominations, knowledge, truth)
May 16 - God’s existence: where does the burden of proof lie? (atheism, burden of proof, theism)
May 16 - God or Godless and a Tippling Philosopher (Part 2) (God or Godless, John Loftus, Jonathan Pearce, review, Tippling philosopher)
May 16 - 1. Denis Lamoureux on Evolution and Creation (Denis Lamoureus, evolutionary creation, science, Tentative Apologist Podcast, theistic evolution)
May 16 - The God or Godless Alberta Tour 2013 (debate, God or Godless, John Loftus)
May 15 - God or Godless and a tippling philosopher (Part 1) (God or Godless, John Loftus, Jonathan Pearce, Tippling philosopher)
May 15 - The case of the miraculous eclipse (miracle, natural law, science)
May 14 - Miracles and context (context, miracle, providence)
May 14 - My interview with Bill Maier on “God or Godless” (Bill Maier, God or Godless, interview)
May 14 - Should miracles be defined as events that persuade skeptics? (divine action, miracle, Pentecost, providence)
May 14 - Responding to comments from “Are self-described skeptics reliable to evaluate miracle claims?” (divine action, miracle, providence)
May 13 - Don’t get a PhD in the humanities … unless you want to be the smartest barista at Starbucks (job market, philosophy, theology)
May 13 - Is universalism compatible with human freedom? (Eric Reitan, reconciliation, salvation, universalism)
May 13 - When it comes to the question of universal salvation: An interview with Eric Reitan (Eric Reitan, hell, orthodoxy, salvation, soteriology, universalism)
May 12 - Randal appears on Author Talks with Shaun Tabatt (apologetics, Author Talks with Shaun Tabatt, interview)
May 10 - The Journal of Analytic Theology Launches! (Analytic theology, Journal of Analytic Theology, philosophy of religion)
May 8 - David Hershey’s review of “God or Godless”: Let’s call it a draw (David Hershey, God or Godless, John Loftus)
May 8 - Off to the Logos Conference (Logos Conference, Notre Dame)
May 8 - Are self-described skeptics reliable to evaluate miracle claims? (evidence, miracle, rationality, skepticism)
May 8 - Common misunderstandings of the concept of a miracle (divine action, God, James Randi, miracle, skepticism)
May 7 - The signs of ideologically driven atheism (civility, dialogue, epistemology, testimony)
May 6 - Blogger Nathaniel Claiborne reviews “God or Godless” … and then Randal reviews Nathaniel (apologetics, atheism, God or Godless, Nathaniel Claiborne, theism)
May 6 - The Dubious Disciple reviews “God or Godless” (Dubious Disciple, God or Godless, John Loftus)
May 6 - Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence, and what is required to persuade a rational person (dialogue, epistemology, reason)
May 5 - Why knowledge must begin in faith rather than evidence (epistemology, evidence, faith, justification, knowledge, properly basic, reason, testimony)
May 4 - Dumb lies (lies, truth)
May 3 - Living forever is not necessarily meaningful (immortality, meaning, purpose)
May 3 - Testimony as properly basic (epistemology, foundationalism, justification, proper basicality, reason, testimony)
May 2 - John Loftus faces off against Randal in person! (debate, God or Godless, John Loftus)
May 2 - Knowledge, scientific and otherwise (defeater, epistemology, Holy Spirit, IIHS, justiication, knowledge, proper basicality, science)
May 2 - Endorsements for “What on Earth do we Know About Heaven?” (eschatology, heaven, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven)
May 1 - God or Godless: 1, 3 or 5 stars? (atheism, debate, God or Godless, theism)
May 1 - A new radio interview on “Swedish Atheist” (radio interview, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetics Rabbit Trails)
May 1 - “God or Godless” is reviewed by Jr. Forasteros (God or Godless, Jr. Forasteros)
May 1 - Check out my Beliefnet article on evil (atheism, evil, theodicy)
April 30 - Erroll questions Randal’s academic integrity and freedom. Randal replies. (academic freedom)
April 30 - Jesus and the curse of one’s enemies (imprecatory psalms, Jesus)
April 30 - Pray for those Calvinists who persecute you (Calvinism, imprecatory psalms, persecution)
April 29 - Philosopher Adam Omelianchuk reviews “God or Godless” (Adam Omelianchuk, atheism, God or Godless, John Loftus, theism)
April 29 - One more thing I’m really good at (judgment, legalism, Pharisee)
April 29 - An Unbelievably good apologetics conference (apologetics, Unbelievable)
April 29 - Can a non-physical agent interact in a physical world? (actuality, creation, God, possibility)
April 27 - In their heart of hearts, do atheists really believe in God? (agnosticism, atheism, belief, psychology, theism)
April 27 - My latest cases of synchronicity (coincidence, synchronicity)
April 26 - In a New York minute everything can change (existentialism, mortality)
April 24 - God or Godless in review (God or Godless, review)
April 23 - Off to New York (Biologos, conference, New York)
April 21 - Inclusivism again: how we can be saved apart from hearing the gospel, and why the gospel still matters (Christ, christology, epistemology, exclusivism, inclusivism, relationship)
April 20 - Why was Tsarnaev not read his Miranda rights? And how amazing that anybody should care to ask. (democracy, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Miranda rights, open society)
April 20 - Dancing on the edge of the hermeneutical abyss (Bible, biblical interpretation, Christian, hermeneutics, Mormon, Trinity)
April 19 - The spiritual discipline of reading your unfair critics (character, spiritual discipline, spiritual formation)
April 19 - Check out Regent College’s summer school this year (Regent College)
April 18 - e-reading: a reflection (ebook, ereading, God or Godless)
April 17 - A wake-up call to the speed of change (technology)
April 16 - The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver and the Straw Man (straw man, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails)
April 16 - Hugh Ross and apologetic evidence on demand (apologetics, Hugh Ross)
April 16 - Three sentences into Lewis Wolpert’s book, and already bogged down (belief, epistemology, Lewis Wolpert, reason, science, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast)
April 15 - Randal interviewed on Apologetics 315 (Apologetics 315, Brian Auten, Randal Rauser, Tentative Apologist)
April 15 - If inclusivism is true does believing in Jesus still matter? (evangelism, inclusivism, mission)
April 15 - How to agree with a creed (creed, exclusivism, inclusivism, Statement of faith)
April 13 - Do atheists receive a ‘get out of hell free’ card because they don’t believe in God? (damnation, hell, theodicy)
April 13 - Are the missionaries bringing bad news? A misbegotten objection to inclusivism (evangelism, exclusivism, inclusivism, mission)
April 12 - Substance dualism as atheistic heresy (atheism, heresy, naturalism, substance dualism, theism)
April 12 - Why inclusivism makes sense (exclusivism, inclusivism, salvation, soteriology)
April 11 - Reflections on my interview with Bob Dutko (atheism, Bob Dutko, Christianity, God or Godless, John Loftus)
April 10 - Atheistic heretics (atheism, heresy, theism)
April 10 - Returning to the social roots of evangelicalism (without becoming liberal) (evangelicalism, gospel, liberalism, social action, United Church, water)
April 9 - Essential beliefs (essentialism, heresy, orthodoxy)
April 8 - Attention bloggers: review copies available (blogging, review copies)
April 8 - Heresy hunting and the Church (heresy hunting, hermeneutics, interpretation)
April 7 - Can free will solve the problem of hell? (eternal conscious torment, evil, free will, hell)
April 6 - Two thumbs up, Mr. Ebert (Roger Ebert)
April 5 - Doug Groothuis on “The Origin of Species” (Darwinism, Douglas Groothuis, Origin of Species)
April 5 - A footnote on guilt imputation and parental liability (imputation, liability)
April 5 - A vacuous defense of penal substitution (atonement, imputation, Justin Brierley, penal substitution, Steve Jeffrey, Unbelievable)
April 4 - Tradition is like dog fur (reason, tradition)
April 3 - An eye for an eye, a paralysis for a paralysis (crime, eye for an eye, lex talionis, punishment, retributive justice)
April 3 - The Reason for Hell: A critical engagement with Timothy Keller (Part 4) (hades, hell, sheol, The Reason for God, Timothy Keller)
April 3 - The Reason for Hell: A critical engagement with Timothy Keller (Part 3) (eternal conscious torment, evil, hell, resurrection, theodicy, Timothy Keller)
April 3 - Hollywood on God’s side (Boston Globe, Catholic Church, Dreamworks, Hollywood)
April 1 - The Reason for Hell: A critical engagement with Timothy Keller (Part 2) (annhilationism, hell, The Reason for God, Timothy Keller, universalism)
April 1 - God or Godless: The Interview (apologetics, atheism, God or Godless, John Loftus, Randal Rauser, Tentative Apologist, theism)
March 30 - The Reason for Hell: a critical engagement with Timothy Keller (Part 1) (apologetics, hell, The Reason for God, theodicy, Tim Keller)
March 28 - Nike says “Winning takes care of everything.” Stalin agrees (ad, Nike)
March 28 - God is responsible for the legally insane. Therefore, God exists (God, insanity, mental illness, moral evil, natural evil, Richard Kachkar, theism, theodicy, Tim McLean)
March 27 - Does the US Postal Service discriminate against atheists? (atheism, discrimination, theism, US postal service)
March 27 - A tale of three kitties (advertising, branding, Calvin and Hobbes, commercialism, Garfield)
March 26 - Come on, stomp on Jesus! Do it! (discrimination, Jesus, prejudice)
March 25 - God and Evil: The case for God in a world filled with pain: A Review (God and Evil, problem of evil, theodicy)
March 24 - A hell of one’s own making (damnation, hell, sin)
March 23 - Abusing the Argumentum ad populum (argumentum ad populum)
March 22 - The chief end of Man in Reformed perspective (Calvinism, election, Paul Copan, reprobation)
March 22 - On Halo Publishers (halo publisher, Oxford University Press, Theology in Search of Foundations)
March 22 - On the dying of Christopher Hitchens (Christopher Hitchens, death, Eusebius, Galerius, schadenfreude)
March 20 - Is the loss of the autographa an argument against biblical inspiration? (Part 1) (Bart Ehrman, Bible, inspiration)
March 19 - On John Loftus contradicting himself (agnositicism, atheism, belief, John Loftus)
March 19 - The (somewhat) Godly speaks with the proudly Godless: Randal’s interview with John W. Loftus (atheism, Baker, God or Godless, John W. Loftus, theism)
March 18 - Atheists who get religion (while remaining atheists) (atheism, religion, theism)
March 17 - Randal talks with Ralph the Atheist (Part 5): Ralph gets the last word (for now) (atheism, dialogue, Ralph Jones, theism)
March 16 - What would complementarians do with a hermaphrodite pastor? (casuistry, complementarianism, egalitarianism)
March 15 - Randal talks with Ralph the Atheist (Part 4): Randal rebuffs Ralph (atheism, problem of evil, Ralph Jones, theism)
March 15 - Could Jesus perform moral atrocities? (ethics, God, Jesus, moral atrocities, morality, virtue)
March 14 - If it’s okay for God to do something, then is it okay for him to command it? (ethics, God, Jesus, moral atrocity, moral knowledge, moral law, morality)
March 13 - Two minutes of Evangelicalise (Christian culture, evangelicalise)
March 13 - Homo religiosus: human beings are all religious and why it matters (atheism, definition, religion, theism)
March 12 - On methods of evangelism (evangelism, method)
March 11 - Could God again command the killing of infants and children for a greater good? A critique of William Lane Craig (canaanite genocide, ethics, natural law, Old Testament, William Lane Craig)
March 11 - William Lane Craig on genocide as a sign of purity (apologetics, Bible, Canaanite, ethics, genocide, Old Testament, problem of evil, William Lane Craig)
March 10 - Reflections on the business of worship (Chris Tomlin, free market, worship music)
March 9 - How Johnny Cash helped me appreciate Immanuel Kant (argument from practical reason, Immanuel Kant, Johnny Cash, moral argument)
March 8 - The creepiest birthday wish ever (existentialism, Google, information, marketing, mortality, privacy)
March 8 - Randal talks with Ralph the Atheist (Part 3): Ralph replies, Randal parries (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, dialogue, Ralph Jones, theism)
March 7 - On name-calling (name-calling, spin doctor, William Lane Craig)
March 7 - Randal launches The Tentative Apologist Podcast … soon (God or Godless, John W. Loftus, Tentative Apologist Podcast)
March 6 - Randal talks with Ralph the Atheist (Part 2): Randal responds with fightin’ words (atheism, dialogue, Ralph Jones, scientism, theism)
March 5 - The Canaanite genocide as cruel and unusual punishment in extremis (Canaanite, ethics, genocide, herem, Old Testament, Rwanda, war, William Lane Craig)
March 5 - Randal talks with Ralph the Atheist (Part 1) (atheism, dialogue, Ralph Jones, theism)
March 4 - William Lane Craig thinks the Canaanites should’ve run! (And too bad if they didn’t.) (Canaanite, ethics, genocide, Old Testament, war, William Lane Craig)
March 4 - William Lane Craig on killing the Canaanite infants (ethics, genocide, herem, holy war, William Lane Craig)
March 2 - Could the punishment for legalized abortion be a national abortion? (abortion, ethics, genocide)
March 2 - William Lane Craig’s defense of genocide based on a reprobate culture (ethics, genocide, herem, holy war, Joshua, Old Testament, William Lane Craig)
March 1 - On William Lane Craig’s defense of the Canaanite genocide (Part 5) (genocide, Matthew Flannagan, Old Testament, war, William Lane Craig)
February 28 - The meek shall find their audience (documentary, Searching for Sugar Man)
February 27 - Thoughts on Evolution: A response to Stephen J. Bedard (evolution, intelligent design, Stephen J. Bedard, You're not as crazy as I think)
February 27 - Should you mention hell when you evangelize? Maybe not. (evangelism, hell)
February 26 - Why does the Catholic Church continue to protect its abusers? (Catholic Church, Deliver us from Evil, Oliver O'Grady, psychopathy, rape, Roger Mahony)
February 25 - Can a person be 100% Christian if they’re only 50% sure it is true? (Christianity, doubt, epistemology, faith, God, reason, salvation)
February 25 - Can the Oscars be saved? (Academy Awards, Michael Moore, Oscars)
February 24 - Evangelicals who redefine genocide? A response to Justin Taylor (apologetics, Bible, ethnic cleansing, genocide, Justin Taylor, Old Testament, theology)
February 22 - Should children watch “The Passion of the Christ”? (Bible, children, The Passion of the Christ, violence)
February 22 - Craig v. Rosenberg: Debate or Debacle? (Alex Rosenberg, apologetics, atheism, debate, naturalism, theism, William Lane Craig)
February 21 - Life is meaningful because it does (or doesn’t) go on forever (a footnote) (atheism, eternity, existentialism, life, meaning, theism)
February 20 - Lots of book info and a value-added life lesson (books)
February 20 - Life is meaningful because it does (or doesn’t) go on forever (atheism, eternity, existential argument, life, theism, time)
February 19 - Errant statements in an inerrant book (Bible, inerrancy, inspiration, revelation)
February 18 - The new Idealism? A perspective on the Richard Carrier-Mark Goodacre debate on Jesus Mythicism (idealism, Jesus Mythicism, Mark Goodacre, Richard Carrier, Unbelievable)
February 17 - On William Lane Craig’s defense of the Canaanite genocide (Part 4) (biblical atrocity, Canaanites, ethics, genocide, Old Testament, theocracy, William Lane Craig)
February 16 - Dialogue between Randal Rauser and Ralph Jones
February 15 - Lessons in Partisan Broadcasting: A Response to “Reasonable Doubts” (Bible, exegesis, hermeneutics, inspiration, Reasonable Doubts)
February 14 - Some “unbelievable” good news (interview, Justin Brierley, Ralph Jones, Unbelievable)
February 13 - Putting God in the Dock? A response to Justin Taylor (Bible, exegesis, genocide, God, hermeneutics, Justin Taylor, Old Testament, violence)
February 12 - On William Lane Craig’s defense of the Canaanite genocide (Part 3) (apologetics, Bible, Canaanite, ethics, genocide, Reasonable Faith, violence, William Lane Craig)
February 11 - Jesus you’re my … superhero? (accommodation, contextualization, culture, Jesus, translation)
February 9 - On William Lane Craig’s defense of the Canaanite genocide (Part 2) (apologetics, ethics, genocide, moral atrocity, moral perception, Old Testament, rape, William Lane Craig)
February 8 - On William Lane Craig’s defense of the Canaanite slaughter (Part 1) (Bible, genocide, Reasonable Faith, Richard Dawkins, violence, William Lane Craig)
February 8 - Does one sin when one doubts? A response to Pascal (atheism, doubt, faith, Pascal, skepticism, theism)
February 7 - Yet another review of “Swedish Atheist” (David Hershey, review, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails)
February 7 - If he’s angry at religion, then what exactly is he angry at? (definition, God, religion, theology)
February 6 - What? No Bible at the Hard Rock Hotel? (Notes on Orlando Part 1) (Bible, Hard Rock Hotel, narrative, Orlando, Rock and roll)
February 4 - The spider that knew how to make a spider (intelligent design, Smarter Every Day, spider)
February 2 - Would God be lying if he created the world with apparent age? (earth science, God, lying, Philip Gosse, science, theology)
February 1 - Should Christians help atheists make better arguments for atheism? (argument, atheism, ethics, philosophy, theism)
January 31 - A review of “Swedish Atheist” and the unique autonomy of literary characters (God or Godless, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetics Rabbit Trails)
January 31 - David Haitel’s testimony (David Haitel, healing, miracle, synchronicity, testimony)
January 30 - Is Christian-atheist dialogue worthwhile? A commentary on the Dawkins-Kenny-Williams Debate (Part 2) (Anthony Kenny, atheism, Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams, theism, theology)
January 29 - Does theology make progress? A response to Jerry Coyne (Jerry Coyne, science, theology)
January 29 - Is Christian-atheist dialogue worthwhile? A commentary on the Dawkins-Kenny-Williams debate (Part 1) (Anthony Kenny, atheism, dialogue, evolution, God, Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams, theism, universe)
January 28 - Reformed Rap comes of Age: Shai Linne on The Hypostatic Union (christology, hypostatic union, incarnation, rap, Shai Linne)
January 28 - What is a cheat? Lance Armstrong vs. Travis Tygart (cheating, Lance Armstrong, Travis Tygart)
January 27 - Mystery, magic, divinity: The miracle of human gestation (Alexander Tsiaras, birth, gestation, miracle, TED Talk)
January 26 - The ethics of playing Subway Surfers (ethics, Subway Surfers, video game)
January 26 - William Lane Craig, God and Evolution (creation, Darwin, evil, evolution, Neo-Darwinism, providence, suffering, William Lane Craig)
January 25 - Does Jesus’ vision of a good person make sense? (ethics, Jesus, morality)
January 24 - The most sinful man in the room (hamartiology, Harry Blamires, sin, The Christian Mind)
January 24 - The Oprah Gospel tastes sweet, but is it lethal? (counterfeit, gospel, Oprah)
January 24 - If homosexuals are “sodomites” what does that make the rest of us? (ethics, hypocrisy, Jesus Christ, sodomy)
January 23 - On killing homosexuals in God’s name (homosexuality, Uganda)
January 23 - How societies improve: the simple example of Morocco (fatalism, moral progress, Morocco, rape, sanctification)
January 22 - On finally getting the Bible right (epistemology, history, humility, knowledge, skepticism, truth)
January 22 - Sodomy and the Kingdom of God (ethics, homosexuality, Kingdom of God)
January 22 - Jesus believed in ghosts (so maybe you should too) (Del Toro, ghosts, Jesus, Mama)
January 21 - Violence and the Good Book: My interview with Eric Seibert (Bible, Eric Seibert, ethics, hermeneutics, Old Testament, The Violence of God, violence)
January 20 - Why do conservative Christians think everything is getting worse? (eschatology, Good society, justice, premillennialism)
January 19 - Encountering the Other: An exercise in moral perception finely-tuned (epistemology, moral perception, proper basicality)
January 18 - Death as whole body amputation (Antony Flew, dualism, personhood)
January 18 - Facing Generation Agnostic (agnosticism, atheism, secularism, secularization)
January 17 - John Allister, the Amalekites, and the Principle of Inherited Culpability (Amalekites, genocide, hermeneutics, John Allister, Old Testament)
January 17 - The latest review of “Swedish Atheist” (Bryce Ashlin-Mayo, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetics Rabbit Trails)
January 16 - An Unbelievable defense of the Amalekite Genocide (Amalekite, Bible, ethics, genocide, hermeneutics, Justin Brierley, Old Testament, Unbelievable)
January 15 - Perfect Divine Being, Perfect Divine Commands (divine command ethics, ethics, God, perfect being, theism)
January 15 - It sucks to be Lance (Lance Armstrong, repentance, truth)
January 14 - A bad objection to divine command theories of ethics (divine command theory, ethics)
January 14 - Beliefs that are adaptive but false ain’t that unusual (Alvin Plantinga, apologetics, argument from reason)
January 14 - Do bad jokes undermine the credibility of the Church? (church, ecclesiology, sacredness)
January 13 - Pot. Kettle. Black. Another response to Chris Hallquist (Chris Hallquist, confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, Sam Harris, William Lane Craig)
January 12 - Jesus, execution and divorce (Bible, capital punishment, ethics, hermeneutics, Jesus, Old Testament, torah)
January 11 - Did William Lane Craig smear Sam Harris? A response to Chris Hallquist (Chris Hallquist, psychopathy, rhetoric, Sam Harris, truth, William Lane Craig)
January 11 - The Peril of Praying to the Trinity (God, prayer, Trinity)
January 10 - Does Jesus commend the killing of children in Mark 7:10? (Jesus, Old Testament, punishment, torah, violence)
January 10 - Would you want an atheist for a neighbor? (atheism, Christian Post)
January 9 - Is it wrong to stereotype? (ethics, Stephen Colbert, stereotyping)
January 9 - Why do we talk to our dogs? (Castaway, dogs, society, Tom Hanks)
January 8 - A quick look at God as a temporal being (arminianism, atemporality, Bible, Calvinism, eternity, God, hermeneutics, temporality)
January 8 - Alex Jones on Piers Morgan: An amazing bit of television (Alex Jones, guns, Piers Morgan, public discourse)
January 8 - Love, omnibenevolence, and Francis Chan (Calvinism, Francis Chan, hell, love, omnibenevolence)
January 8 - A bit of good news on “Swedish Atheist” (The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetics Rabbit Trails)
January 7 - Why you shouldn’t clap in church (church, consumerism, ecclesiology, worship)
January 6 - Tell me sweet little lies: evidence that people like being lied to (baloney, bullshit, lies, truth)
January 5 - Does the size of the universe support atheism or Christianity? (atheism, Christianity, epistemology, evidence, rationality, theism, worldview)
January 4 - Suicide Bombers in the Bible? (Bible, Philip Jenkins, Samson, terrorism)
January 4 - Does Jesus go with soldiers into battle? (ethics, Jesus, militarism, peace, war)
January 3 - Dare to open a window: On the problem of being called a traitor, liberal or heretic (doxastic community, heresy, liberalism, orthodoxy, patriotism, truth)
January 2 - I’ll pray for you (and other Christian baloney) (baloney, bullshit, Christianity, truth)
January 2 - From here to Australopithecus: The puzzle of human value in an evolutionary world (Chris Stringer, ethics, neanderthal)
January 1 - Pragmatists, Prophets, and Punitive Appendage Amputation (Bible, corporal punishment, ethics, hermeneutics, pragmatism, relativism, William Webb)

2012

December 31 - Beat your children well? A Review of Corporal Punishment in the Bible by William Webb (Bible, biblical violence, corporal punishment, ethics, hermeneutics, William J. Webb)
December 30 - Would it be wrong to resurrect the Neanderthals? (Chris Stringer, Darwinism, ethics, evolution, Lone Survivors, neanderthal)
December 29 - Will love win in Newtown? Reflections on an unspeakable tragedy (evil, God, hope, Newtown, suffering)
December 29 - Everything you ever wanted to know about divine action (except how it really works) (divine action, Nicholas Saunders, philosophical theology, philosophy, science)
December 28 - Does a candle really illumine the darkness? (analogy, metaphor, nature, preaching, science)
December 28 - God and non-God objects. Like, what’s the problem? A response to Justin Schieber (atheism, creation, God, Justin Schieber, naturalism, possible world, theism)
December 27 - A Journey in Mindandcosmosia: God as explanatory posit (argument from sufficient reason, cosmological argument, God, metaphysics, Mind & Cosmos, theism, Thomas Nagel)
December 26 - On the Bad Stuff in the Good Book: A Review of Eric Seibert’s The Violence of Scripture (Bible, Eric A. Seibert, ethics, Old Testament, review, The Violence of Scripture, violence)
December 25 - Thomas Nagel, Iconoclast and Antitheist, on Intelligent Design (antitheism, atheism, Mind and Cosmos, naturalism, philosophy, Thomas Nagel)
December 24 - A Debate on the Nativity for Christmas (debate, Jonathan Pearce, nativity)
December 24 - How not to do apologetics: Lessons from Francis Church and Virginia (Part 1) (apologetics, belief, doubt, evidence, fath, Francis Church, Santa Claus, Yes Virginia)
December 22 - Unbiblical Evangelicalism: Lessons from Rick Warren’s “Daniel Diet” (biblicism, Christian Smith, hermeneutics, Rick Warren, The Daniel Diet)
December 21 - Are we determined by our circumstance? (free will)
December 21 - The Wonderful Moments of 9/11 (9/11, Boatlift, documentary)
December 20 - You’re in a dark alley. Would you rather meet ten Christians or ten atheists? (atheism, Christianity, pacifism)
December 20 - Crematoria for the Canaanites? (acquaintance knowledge, Auschwitz, Bible, Canaanites, genocide, herem)
December 20 - Would the real Gospel please stand up? (Bible, gospel, inspiration, revelation)
December 19 - Is it wrong for Christians to laugh at fart jokes? (decorum, ethics, flatulence)
December 18 - Why it is wrong to execute minors (Bible, capital punishment, ethics, morality, torah)
December 18 - What a coincidence! An exercise in worldview analysis (chance, explanation, Fablehaven, worldview)
December 17 - The time has come to equip the teachers with guns (gun violence, satire)
December 16 - Filicide in “biblical” perspective. But which biblical perspective? (Bible, capital punishment, corporeal punishment, ethics, law, torah, violence)
December 15 - Did the “systematic removal” of God from public schools lead to the Connecticut massacre? (Bible, ethics, God, gun violence, Mike Huckabee)
December 14 - What happens when you ignore unmarked papers? (blog, grading)
December 14 - Would Jesus stone a misbehaving child? (ethics, Jesus)
December 14 - Should lazy teenagers be stoned? (Bible, ethics, law, revelation, torah, violence)
December 13 - God, why are you hiding? A Reflection (divine hiddenness, problem of evil, providence, skepticism, subconcious, theism, theodicy)
December 12 - Faith Seeking Understanding: A Conversation with David Marshall (David Marshall, Faith Seeking Understanding)
December 12 - Is thinking about God a big waste of time? (atheism, doubt, knowledge, self-deception, theism)
December 11 - Can objective moral value exist without God? Revisiting the Question (atheism, ethics, God, moral objectivism, morality, theism)
December 11 - Things to keep atheists and Christians (and almost everybody else) up at night (atheism, Christianity, doubt, ideology, skepticism, theism)
December 10 - The Cover for My Heaven Book (heaven, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven)
December 10 - God or Godless in the hands of the barbarians (God or Godless, John W. Loftus)
December 10 - “What On Earth Do We Know About Heaven?” Coming Fall 2013 (heaven, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven)
December 9 - The Existential Argument and Sam Harris’ Big Diamond (atheism, existential argument, God, prudential argument, Sam Harris, theism)
December 8 - In defense of existential arguments for belief in God (atheism, belief in God, existential argument, prudential argument, theism)
December 8 - John W. Loftus and the Ideologue Barometer (apologetics, atheism, debate, God or Godless, ideologue, ideology, John W. Loftus, theism)
December 8 - I’ll shine John Piper’s shoes under one condition (arminianism, Calvinism, epistemology, knowledge, truth)
December 7 - Is lip-syncing legitimate performance? (deception, ethics, lip sync)
December 7 - Why are you laughing? Reflections on the ethics of gallows humor (bioethics, ethics, Hastings Center, speech act)
December 4 - Christianity is not built on the rock of hell (atonement, Christ, eternal conscious torment, evangelism, hell)
December 3 - Support this blog by supporting Kiva (Kiva)
December 3 - Two interviews, two book reviews, and three banners (Oh my!) (Drew Marshall, God321.net, Josh Barkey, Jr. Forasteros, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetics Rabbit Trails)
December 3 - How long, O Lord? An Advent meditation on suburban injustice (consumerism, culture, eschatology, ethics, justice, satire, Starbucks)
December 1 - On reading the Bible’s texts of terror (Bible, herem, hermeneutics, morality, problem of evil, theodicy)
November 30 - God’s suffering: Meditations on Elie Wiesel (Elie Wiesel, incarnation, problem of evil, theodicy)
November 29 - The age of the hypercar. Sigh. (hypercar)
November 29 - Did God accommodate genocide? (Bible, genocide, morality, theodicy)
November 28 - Calvinism, Arminianism and Omnibenevolence (arminianism, Calvinism, election, providence)
November 27 - God or Godless gets blurbed (four from living scholars and four from dead ones) (blurb, God or Godless)
November 26 - A “Meh” Review of Swedish Atheist (review, The Swedish Atheist)
November 26 - The theist’s problem of evil explained simply (problem of evil, theodicy)
November 25 - The Ethics of Book Blurbs (blurb, ethics, lying, publishing)
November 23 - Speech acts and imprecatory psalms (imprecatory psalms, speech act)
November 22 - An atheist at Thanksgiving (atheism, thanksgiving, theism)
November 21 - Jane Goodall and the risks of general revelation (general revelation, natural theology)
November 20 - Psalm 137 for Family Devotions (Bible, hermeneutics, imprecatory psalm, theodicy)
November 18 - How good is God Behaving Badly? A Review (David T. Lamb, ethics, God behaving badly, Old Testament, problem of evil, theodicy)
November 18 - Are the fat the last socially permissible prejudice? (obesity, prejudice)
November 17 - Debriefing ETS (academy, ETS, theology)
November 15 - Environmental extremism at ETS? (Calvin Beisner, climate change, environmentalism)
November 14 - Does Calvinism oblige you to withhold hope in your child’s salvation? (arminianism, Calvinism, election, providence)
November 13 - Academic conferences and the urban food desert (food desert)
November 12 - Christopher Hitchens and the Revolt against Santa Claus (Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, North Korea, providence, rhetoric, theism)
November 11 - On killing the dog (ethics, morality, veganism, vegetarianism)
November 11 - The Meat-Eater’s Dilemma Revisited (ethics, morality, veganism, vegetarianism)
November 10 - Why I don’t do book signings (bookstore, God321, radio interview. The Drew Marshall Show)
November 9 - How will the Christians know when to commence the killing? (apocalyptic, genocide, pacifism, revelation, violence)
November 8 - Slouching before God (God, worship)
November 8 - A breathtakingly larger canvas: The Cross in cosmic perspective (atonement, christology, cross, incarnation, science, theology)
November 7 - The Cross and the eXtreme Deep Field (atonement, christology, theology)
November 5 - Intellectual excuses come later? Reflections on Craig and Loftus (conversion, John W. Loftus, William Lane Craig)
November 5 - Merely squeamish? (ethics, moral epistemology)
November 4 - The Meat-Eater’s Dilemma (ethics, veganism, vegetarianism)
November 3 - Is it right to eat that which you wouldn’t kill? (ethics, veganism, vegtarianism)
November 3 - Another (favorable) review of “Swedish Atheist” (Friar Tuck's Fleeting Thoughts, review, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails)
November 2 - Can animal resurrection compensate for suffering endured? (animal suffering, natural evil, problem of evil, theodicy)
November 1 - Satan and the problem of evil: is the devil in the details? (demons, natural evil, Satan, theodicy, theology)
October 31 - Are demons responsible for natural evil? (Alvin Plantinga, alvinize, demons, Gregory Boyd, natural evil, theodicy)
October 30 - William Dembski on Natural Evil (natural evil, theodicy, William Dembski)
October 29 - A well written review of The Swedish Atheist and more prattling from J.P. Holding (apologetics, J.P. Holding, matichuk, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetics Rabbit Trails)
October 28 - A few shades the other side of silly: Jerry Shepherd defends Tim Keller (atonement, eternal conscious torment, hell, Jerry Shepherd, Tim Keller)
October 28 - Schadenfreude (schadenfreude)
October 27 - J.P. Holding’s review of “The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver, and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails” (apologetics, J.P. Holding, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails)
October 26 - The Metamucil Scale (Metamucil Scale)
October 26 - Randal Rauser talks apologetics on Bob Dutko (apologetics, Bob Dutko, interview)
October 25 - Is the light of the cross brightened by the flickering flames of hell? (atonement, cross, hell, Jesus Christ, Tim Keller)
October 24 - Does natural evil always require sentience? (natural evil, theodicy)
October 23 - What is it like to be a bat bug? Two errors of anthropopathism (anthropopathism, Charles Darwin, natural evil, Richard Dawkins, theodicy)
October 22 - Why John Piper shouldn’t work at a battered women’s shelter (abuse, ethics, John Piper, marriage, submission)
October 22 - To Hellbound and back: A Review (hell, Hellbound?, Kevin Miller)
October 20 - Hopeful universalism and the love of neighbor (ethics, hell, hopeful universalism, salvation)
October 20 - Darwin was wrong (and why intelligent design theorists are not necessarily happy about the fact) (Charles Darwin, evolution, intelligent design, irreducible complexity, Michael Behe)
October 19 - Hellbound is comin’ to town (documentary, hell, Hellbound?, Kevin Miller)
October 18 - “But God was faithful” as if he might have been otherwise? (God, prayer, providence, theodicy)
October 17 - God wouldn’t use that kind of music … would he? (Christianity, culture, God, heavy metal, metalcore, music)
October 16 - Plausible Christianity in the metalcore community (Adam D, apologetics, Jesse Leach, Killswitch Engage, plausibility structure, Times of Grace, worldview)
October 16 - Swedish Atheist now in Kindle (Kindle, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetics Rabbit Trails)
October 15 - Apologetics as argument, ethic and culture (apologetics, plausibility structure)
October 14 - Do we need apologists anymore? (apologetics, postmodernism, Robert Webber, storytelling)
October 13 - The Swedish Atheist Book is now available! An Interview with Myself (and other Apologetic Rabbit Trails, apologetics, Randal Rauser, the Scuba Diver, The Swedish Atheist)
October 12 - Bat Bugs? Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn (bat bug, natural evil, theodicy, traumatic insemination)
October 11 - Traumatic Insemination and other Natural Evils (bat bug, natural evil, problem of evil, theodicy)
October 10 - What place, then, for a creator? An important place, actually. (abstract objects, cosmological argument, creation, God, modality, rational intuition, reason, universals, universe)
October 8 - Can a sane mind believe in a singularity? (agent cause, agnosticism, atheism, Big Bang, cosmological argument, theism, universe)
October 7 - Verboten explanations (agent causation, apologetics, Big Bang, cosmological argument)
October 5 - Three bad ways to defend agnosticism (agent causation, agnosticism, atheism, cosmological argument, theism, universe)
October 4 - If crime scene investigators reasoned like atheists (agent causation, atheism, CSI, inference to the best explanation, theism, universe)
October 4 - Do you really believe the universe’s origin was uncaused, or were you just speculating? (agent cause, atheism, cosmology, event cause, origin, theism, universe)
October 4 - Kolmogorov complexity, conjunction rules, and the burden of proof (atheism, burden of proof, kolmogorov complexity, rhetoric, theism)
October 3 - One final documented list of Alister McGrath’s Self-Plagiarism (Alister McGrath, plagiarism)
October 3 - On the concept of self-plagiarism and why it is wrong (Alister McGrath, plagiarism)
October 3 - Alister McGrath’s self-plagiarism is even worse than I thought (Alister McGrath, plagiarism)
October 2 - Is Alister McGrath a plagiarist? (Alister McGrath, plagiarism)
October 1 - An Atheistic Riddle (agnosticism, atheism, riddle)
October 1 - Atheist, meet Burden of Proof. Burden of Proof, meet Atheist. (atheism, burden of proof, naturalism, theism)
September 30 - To be (or believe) is to risk (belief, certainty, Descartes, evidence, faith, rationality, reason, risk)
September 30 - Synchronicity in Margaritaville (miracle, providence, synchronicity)
September 28 - Is theology baloney? Reflections on the latest Sokal-styled hoax (Alan Sokal, bullshit, Maarten Boundry, philosophy, theology)
September 27 - Pedophilia and other unforgivable sins (ethics, pedophila)
September 26 - Medicated shampoos that feed the head lice and evangelical curricula that feed the prejudice (evangelicalism, Focus on the Family, indoctrination, The Truth Project)
September 26 - We are all apologists (apologetics)
September 25 - It’s not easy being Osteen (Christianity, church, culture, evangelicalism, Joel Osteen, media)
September 23 - God, miracles, and amazing Kentucky Blue (divine action, God, miracle, science)
September 21 - Great movies and an Inspired Book (apologetics, Bible, defeater, epistemology, inspiration, revelation)
September 19 - Cheesemakers, Canaanite dogs and the problem of biblical interpretation (Bible, defeater, hermeneutics, interpretation, John Loftus, miscommunication, problem of evil, theodicy)
September 17 - The Resurrection of Jesus, 52 Pickup, and Prior Probabilities (apologetics, history, Jesus, resurrection)
September 16 - Loftus has no argument and what you can learn from that fact (apologetics, argument, atheism, John Loftus, theism)
September 16 - An afternoon spent trying to help Loftus figure out what his argument is (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, John Loftus, naturalism, theism)
September 15 - Which is more wildly improbable: Christianity being true or Loftus coming up with a good argument? (apologetics, atheism, faith, John Loftus, The End of Christianity, theism)
September 12 - Blaming those who doubt (agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, belief, doubt, theism)
September 12 - Conversations with the Five Minute Apologist (Part 2) (agnosticism, atheism, Christianity, doubt, faith, theism)
September 11 - Storytelling Atheological Apologetics (apologetics, atheism, Edward Babinski, naturalism, theism, worldview)
September 9 - Conversations with the 5 Minute Apologist (Part 1) (5 Minute Apologist, apologetics, philosophy)
September 8 - Will resurrected bodies have face mites? (Demodex mite, eschatology, eternity, heaven, resurrection, theology)
September 7 - Doxaphobia and its foolish pretenders (doubt, doxaphobia, epistemology, faith, reason, skepticism)
September 4 - John Loftus, his Outsider Test for something or other, and Skepticism (epistemology, John W. Loftus, reason, skepticism)
September 3 - John Loftus admits he uses exaggerated, slanted and/or misleading language (John W. Loftus, rhetoric, The End of Christianity)
September 2 - Resurrection and Reincarnation: What’s the Difference? (heaven, reincarnation, resurrection)
September 1 - Would a heaven that never ended end up being hell? (afterlife, apologetics, boredom, heaven, hell)
August 31 - Existential reflections on the Clint Eastwood speech (Clint Eastwood, existentialism, mortality)
August 30 - Do liberal theologians intend to change the gospel? (conservatism, evangelicalism, liberalism, Millard Erickson, theology)
August 28 - Bill Nye the Science Guy gives very strange commentary and bad advice to creationists (Bill Nye, creationism, evolution)
August 27 - Is Hurricane Isaac God’s judgment on the GOP? (divine action, meticulous providence, problem of evil)
August 26 - The cult of Lance Armstrong (Lance Armstrong)
August 25 - Does Mitt Romney have the moral character to be president? (character, ethics, Mitt Romney, morality)
August 25 - The Swedish Atheist, The Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails in the IVP Winter Catalogue
August 24 - Is apologetics a special advertising section? (advertising, apologetics, truth)
August 23 - Could Nascar really be a religion? (Nascar, religion)
August 22 - Why don’t religious documents make successful predictions about the natural world? (atheism, naturalism, Neil deGrasse Tyson)
August 21 - Ambiguity and Legitimate Rape (ambiguity)
August 20 - In Defense of Smokers (morality, pollution, smoking)
August 18 - Christians who are skeptics about moral perception (moral epistemology, morality, skepticism)
August 18 - Does the rejection of biblical atrocities constitute a violation of Sola Scriptura? (sola scriptura)
August 18 - Is rape worse than sacrifice? (ethics, genocide, rape, sacrifice)
August 17 - The Problem of the Faulty Moral Perception Faculty (ethics, genocide, metaethics, moral atrocity, moral epistemology, morality, problem of evil)
August 16 - If God told you to sacrifice your child, would you? (divine command, ethics, Jerry Shepherd)
August 15 - A Sermon on Paul’s Conversion (conversion, Johnny Cash, sermon)
August 15 - What God could and couldn’t do: A conversation with Jerry Shepherd (Bible, ethics, morality, skepticism)
August 14 - The first blurb for “God or Godless” … and the reaction of John Loftus (God or Godless, John W. Loftus)
August 14 - Rape, moral perception, and biblicism (biblicism, Jerry Shepherd, moral epistemology, rape)
August 13 - Christian moral schizophrenia and psychopathy (Bible, genocide, Jerry Shepherd, psychopathy, violence)
August 11 - What does the decline of religiosity mean?
August 9 - Some things I’ve learned from atheists… (You're not as crazy as I think)
August 8 - Do the hard sayings of Jesus constitute defeaters for his moral excellence? (defeater, ethics, hard sayings of Jesus, hermeneutics, Jesus, morality)
August 7 - What if I stumble? Arguing against Christianity from the lives of Christians (apologetics, belief, Christianity, hortatory, Jeffrey Jay Lowder, morality)
August 6 - Olympic-sized pet peeves (olympics)
August 4 - Might God call Christians to participate in a future genocide? (genocide, herem, holy war)
August 4 - Why Christians shouldn’t call themselves conservatives (conservatism, progressivism)
August 2 - Can you be expected to love somebody who might not exist? (doubt, epistemology, God, love)
August 2 - God’s meticulous providence and the prevention of evil (apologetics, God, problem of evil, providence, theodicy)
July 28 - The interrelatedness of all life: An illustration from Richard Dawkins (evolution, Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth)
July 27 - Does God limit evidence to protect human freedom? (Blaise pascal, divine hiddenness, epistemology, Gerald O'Collins)
July 26 - Why nobody really believes natural evil exists: Natural Evil Explained (Part 2) (atheism, God, natural evil, providence, theism, theodicy)
July 25 - Why God shouldn’t be blessed for the carnage in Colorado (problem of evil, providence, theodicy)
July 24 - Natural evil explained (Part 1) (God, natural evil, problem of evil, providence, theism, theodicy)
July 23 - Should God be blessed for the carnage in Colorado? (doxology, God, meticulous providence, problem of evil, providence, theism, theodicy, theology)
July 23 - A journey into a strange land: Why Lowder’s naturalism keeps getting worse (atheism, Jeffrey Jay Lowder, naturalism, supernaturalism, theism)
July 22 - What the world needs now is … Joel Osteen greeting cards? (brand, commercialism, Joe Osteen)
July 21 - Theists who don’t believe in God and naturalists who do (or something like that) (atheism, God, John Robinson, naturalism, theism)
July 20 - What in hell is going on? A Review of Sharon Baker’s “Razing Hell” (Part 3) (hell, Razing Hell, Sharon L. Baker)
July 18 - How does the failure to define naturalism affect Lowder’s argument for naturalism from the history of science? (atheism, Jeffrey Jay Lowder, materialism, naturalism, science, theism)
July 18 - Not even wrong: The many problems with Naturalism (atheism, Jeffrey Jay Lowder, materialism, naturalism, science, theism)
July 18 - Prejudice against supernatural persons? (Jeffrey Jay Lowder, materialism, naturalism, science, supernaturalism)
July 16 - A second and more critical look at Jeff Lowder’s Evidential Argument from the History of Science (atheism, Jeffrey Jay Lowder, naturalism, science, theism)
July 14 - The Naturalism Narrative (atheism, naturalism, plausibility structure, theism)
July 13 - I have no need of that hypothesis (atheism, LaPlace, naturalism, rhetoric)
July 13 - A critical look at Jeff Lowder’s Evidential Argument from the History of Science (atheism, Jeffery Jay Lowder, naturalism, science, Secular Outpost, theology)
July 12 - What would count as evidence for naturalism? (atheism, divine action, naturalism, providence, science, theism)
July 11 - Two anecdotes suggestive of telepathy (mind, naturalism, quantum information, reductionism, telepathy)
July 10 - Beavers, Beaver-like Creatures, and Ad hoc hypotheses (atheism, cosmic fine-tuning, falsification, invisible gardener, multiverse, naturalism, theism)
July 9 - Forget God. The Multiverse can explain everything! (atheism, design, inference to the best explanation, naturalism, theism)
July 9 - Why God can’t intervene in natural law (atheism, divine action, God, natural law, naturalism)
July 8 - What in hell is going on? A Review of Sharon Baker’s “Razing Hell” (Part 2) (atonement, ethics, hermeneutics, Old Testament, Razing Hell, Sharon L. Baker, violence)
July 7 - Invisible Gardener, 100 percent natural: Responses to Ray and Adam (apologetics, atheism, consciousness, naturalism, philosophy of mind, theism, theory)
July 7 - See no supernaturalism. Hear no supernaturalism. Speak no supernaturalism. A response to Jonathan MS Pearce (affirmative atheism, atheism, Debunking Christianity, ideology, Jonathan MS Pearce, naturalism)
July 6 - Updating of the Blog is *In Process* (blog, Disqus)
July 5 - What in hell is going on? A Review of Sharon Baker’s “Razing Hell” (Part 1) (eternal conscious torment, evil, hell, Razing Hell, Sharon L. Baker, theodicy)
July 5 - The natural and naturalism (atheism, Christianity, Debunking Christianity, naturalism, theism)
July 5 - Naturalism and the invisible gardener (Antony Flew, atheism, Debunking Christianity, Jonathan MS Pearce, naturalism)
July 4 - Blog changes (blog)
July 3 - The day Billy went undercover as a skeptic: The briefing (agnosticism, atheism, humanism, naturalism, skepticism)
July 2 - Skeptics in-fighting (Christianity, ecumenism, Freethought Blogs, John W. Loftus, schism, skepticism)
June 30 - The latest on God or Godless (atheism, God or Godless, John W. Loftus, Randal Rauser, theism Baker)
June 29 - When is doxology theology? A response to Jerry Shepherd (atonement, doxology, evangelicalism, Jerry Shepherd, penal substitution, theology)
June 29 - Allowing a genocide is not commanding a genocide (genocide, moral evil, providence, theodicy)
June 25 - Allowing is not commanding (Bible, moral evil, morality, natural evil, providence, theodicy)
June 24 - What is the atonement at least? Lessons from the ascension (ascension, atonement, christology, expiation, propitiation, theology)
June 21 - Things Christians say to explain away biblical moral atrocities (apologetics, biblical ethics, Golden Rule, moral evil, morality, Old Testament, problem of evil)
June 20 - Cannibalizing infants as punishment? (human sacrifice, Lamentations, moral evil, natural evil, problem of evil, Susan Niditch, Yahweh)
June 19 - Is God a perfect heavenly Father? The Lamentations discussion continues (God, Lamentations, moral evil, natural evil, problem of evil, providence, theodicy)
June 17 - God as Father on Father’s Day (Bible, Father's Day, God, Lamentations, metaphor, problem of evil, theology)
June 16 - Bacon: the single greatest challenge for vegans (bacon, Jim Gaffigan, veganism, vegetarianism)
June 14 - Judges that are complete idiots (and other hasty judgments) (dialogue, rationality, You're not as crazy as I think)
June 13 - The new books are on their way (however slowly) (apologetics, atheism, The Swedish athei, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetics Rabbit Trails)
June 11 - Squeezing David Hume’s big toe (and other ironic ways to honor the naive skeptical tradition) (atheism, David Hume, epistemology, humanism, Sam Harris, skepticism, tradition)
May 23 - Going on hiatus for heaven (Baker, blog, heaven)
May 19 - Psychopaths and General Revelation: The Dialogue Continues (ethics, general revelation, natural theology, psychopathy, Romans 2)
May 18 - General revelation and the psychopath
May 16 - Are Christian serial killers saved? (BTK, Christianity, Dallas Willard, Dennis Rader, grace, salvation, sanctification, serial killer, soteriology)
May 14 - Do animals sin? (chimpanzee animal, hamartiology, Jane Goodall, sin, When Elephants Weep)
May 11 - Loftus offers a rebuttal by making up a new argument (and this one’s even worse)! (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, John W. Loftus, theism)
May 10 - Three reasons agnostics shouldn’t call themselves atheists (agnosticism, atheism)
May 10 - Torture and the Parable of the Mustard Gas (ethics, morality, Taxi to the Dark Side, torture)
May 8 - Would Christianity die out if Christians stopped witnessing? And if it did would that mean Christianity was false? (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, evangelism, John W. Loftus, mission, theism)
May 7 - Do I own my body? (Christianity, ethics, Jag Levak, morality, secularism)
May 6 - Sex favors for dying children? A Response to Jag Levak (Christianity, ethics, morality, secularism, utilitarianism)
May 5 - God or Godless gets a cover (Baker, God or Godless, John W. Loftus)
May 4 - On living in a small town, Or the fine line between community and insanity (community, small town)
May 3 - What makes for a good marriage? (Chris Hallquist, ethics, marriage, morality)
May 3 - A heavenly book and a blog (blog, heaven)
May 2 - Are you unreasonably closed to an open marriage? (ethics, morality, natural law, open marriage)
May 1 - Do not conform to the cult of celebrity but be transformed (Barack Obama, Celebrity, White House Correspondents' Dinner)
May 1 - Why aren’t station wagons cool? (cool, station wagon)
April 30 - Should society stigmatize sluts? (Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, Slate, slut)
April 27 - What’s an education worth? (boycott, education, liberal arts, protest, quebec, tuition)
April 26 - Do mushrooms provide the key to hell? (atheism, eternal conscious torment, God, hell, theism)
April 26 - Can you ever have too many war documentaries? (Afghanistan, documentary, Hell and back again, war)
April 25 - Does evangelical pessimism need a makeover? (dispensationalism, eschatology, evangelicalism, John Rawls, justice)
April 24 - Does universalism undermine Christian mission? (evangelism, hell, mission, universalism)
April 23 - Did Bon Scott really want to go to hell? (AC/DC, Bon Scott, hell, Highway to Hell)
April 21 - C.S. Lewis’ view of hell and why it doesn’t help (much) (C.S. Lewis, eternal consious torment, hell, theodicy)
April 20 - When Archie got Jesus: A history of Christian Archie comics (Al Hartley, Archie, pop culture, Spire Christian Comics)
April 20 - Does God trick people into hell? Lessons from Jack Chick (Ally, Christopher Hitchens, damnation, God, hell, Jack Chick, problem of evil, theodicy)
April 20 - A heavenly update (Baker, heaven)
April 18 - Should we “teach the controversy”? (creationism, Discovery Institute, evolution, intelligent design, Teach the Controversy, Tennessee)
April 16 - In the mall but not of it (consumerism, worldview)
April 12 - Monkeying around with common sense: Tennessee’s anti-evolution bill (creationism, evolution, intelligent design, public school, Tennessee)
April 11 - Doubting your firm foundation (Christianity, doubt, epistemology, evangelism, faith, knowledge)
April 10 - What is it like to be Elmo? (Being Elmo, documentary, Kevin Clash)
April 10 - Paralipsis and other modes of marginalization (paralipsis, rhetoric)
April 8 - My Experience with Street Witnessing Part 2: The Painful Execution (Christianity, evangelism, salvation, soteriology, witnessing)
April 7 - The Yellow Cover Wins! (the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails, The Swedish Atheist)
April 5 - One Book, Two Covers, and an Appeal for your Help (and other Apologetic Rabbit Trails, InterVarsity Press, the Scuba Diver, The Swedish Atheist)
April 4 - My Experience with Street Witnessing Part 1: The Guilt-ridden Set-Up (evangelism, mission, salvation, witnessing)
April 4 - The Inherent Value of Human Beings: A Response to Stephen Maitzen (atheism, ethics, imago dei, Jackson Pollock, metaethics, morality, naturalism, Stephen Maitzen, theism)
March 30 - A blogging update (blog, heaven, Randal Rauser)
March 29 - Defending the Fall without a Historical Adam (Adam, Bible, hermeneutics, the fall)
March 29 - Cases where blind faith is the best kind (epistemology, faith, reason)
March 28 - Accords, Elans, and Biblical Interpretation (Bible, Genesis, hermeneutics)
March 27 - From Adam to Zorg: A Dialogue on Creation and Evolution (Bible, Christianity, creation, evolution, fall, hermeneutics, original sin, science, theism)
March 26 - God Delusions? Some reflections on Dawkins vs. Lennox (Big Bang, God Delusion, John Lennox, Richard Dawkins)
March 25 - How to be spiritual in five minutes (or less): A Lenten Reflection (commodification, discipleship, Dr. Phil, Jack Handey, Lent, Saturday Night Live, spirituality)
March 24 - Young earth creationism and really old living things (evolution, Rachel Sussman, Ted Talks, young earth creationism)
March 24 - On Bullies (Bully, documentary, justice)
March 23 - Rosie, don’t get in the elevator: A guide to moral intuition (epistemology, Gavin de Becker, moral intuition, moral perception, morality, Stephen Maitzen)
March 22 - A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Really? (atheism, ethics, Ingrid Newkirk, morality, naturalism, Stephen Maitzen, theism)
March 22 - Should assertions be supported with evidence? (epistemology, evidentialism)
March 21 - Hellbound? A hot new documentary
March 21 - Must existence be everlasting to be meaningful? (atheism, existentialism, meaning, Queen, Stephen Maitzen, theism, William Lane Craig)
March 20 - Life without an author: The atheist’s burden of proof (atheism, meaning, naturalism, theism)
March 19 - My life is a text. Is there meaning in that text? (atheism, existentialism, literary criticism, meaning, reader response, theism)
March 17 - John Loftus doesn’t believe Christianity is false after all! (atheism, Christianity, doubt, epistemology, John Loftus, rationality)
March 17 - What’s wrong with this picture? (atheism, Christianity, naturalism, theology, worldview)
March 16 - Can we end atheist and Christian name-calling? (atheism, dialogue, open society, secularism, The atheist missionary, You're not as crazy as I think)
March 16 - The Pope is smarter than me. Does that mean he’s right? (epistemology, justification, Petrine Succession, Pope, Roman Catholicism)
March 15 - Are Christian apologists just clowning around? (apologetics, plausibility structure, rationality)
March 15 - Believers and skeptics deconstructed (epistemology, skepticism)
March 14 - Atheism isn’t a religion … but it can be part of one (atheism, religion, theism)
March 14 - Why (most) political advertising should be illegal (democracy, free speech, Our Brand is Crisis)
March 13 - Should Christians use peyote to experience God? (epistemology, general revelation, God, natural theology, peyote, theology)
March 12 - Should we give up on faith altogether? (atheism, epistemology, faith, Robert Gressis, theism)
March 11 - Bringing clarity to faith (epistemology, faith)
March 10 - John Loftus challenges me to define faith (atheism, faith, John W. Loftus, theism)
March 10 - Can you perceive God if you cannot demonstrate your perception to others? (agnosticism, atheism, epistemology, God, mysterium tremendum, skepticism)
March 9 - Perceiving the transcendent God through transcending entities (atheism, Burton Cummings, epistemology, Sagrada Familia, theism)
March 8 - The Nebular Incarnation Thought Experiment: Truly out of this world (incarnation, logic, nebula, transitivity of identity)
March 7 - Moral debate in a pluralistic world: A meandering conversation with Jerry Rivard (atheism, epistemology, ethics, moral perception, morality, public discourse, theism)
March 6 - Must we know the definitions of terms before we use them? A reply to Robert Gressis (epistemology, John W. Loftus, Robert Gressis)
March 6 - When rationality becomes a club (in two ways) (John W. Loftus, justification, rationality, reason)
March 5 - If a child can do it, why can’t John Loftus? (defeater, epistemology, faith, internalism, John W. Loftus, rationality)
March 5 - Is religion defined by dogmatic metaphysical certainty? (religion, theology)
March 5 - A lament over laughing John Loftus (epistemology, John W. Loftus, knowledge, rationality)
March 5 - Faith, reason, rationality, justification, and knowledge: A Primer (epistemology, faith, knowledge, reason, theology, warrant)
March 4 - On people who retain unreasonably bad definitions (metaphysics, religion, theology)
March 2 - What John Loftus needs to do to be taken seriously (epistemology, externalism, faith, internalism, John Loftus, justification, rationality)
March 2 - Dogmatic humility examined (atheism, Chet Raymo, dogmatism, naturalism, skepticism)
March 1 - Believers and skeptics properly defined (atheism, naturalism, rhetoric, skepticism, theism)
March 1 - The most interesting pastoral job posting in America (ecclesiology, ecumenism, pastoral search)
March 1 - David MacMillan on the incredulity of atheists and theists (atheism, David MacMillan, epistemology, plausibility structure, theism, truth)
February 29 - Believers and skeptics and lots of baloney (atheism, epistemology, faith, John W. Loftus, reason, theism)
February 27 - Would intelligent aliens present a problem for Christianity? (alien, ETI, exotheology, God, SETI)
February 25 - Should you have faith in John W. Loftus? (atheism, evidence, faith, John W. Loftus, reason, theism)
February 25 - From a field of dreams to a storm shelter of dread: A Review of “Take Shelter” (Jeff Nichols, Take Shelter)
February 24 - One of these causes is not like the others: Getting behind the personal incredulity of ‘skeptics’ (agent causation, atheism, cosmological argument, event causation, plausibility structure, skepticism)
February 24 - Why is it that when you mention God somebody always mentions leprechauns? (God; leprechaun; theism)
February 23 - God and other not so strange causes (agent causation, atheism, creation, event causation, plausibility, theism)
February 22 - More on Mormons, atheism and aliens (alien, atheism, Contact, Ellie Arroway, ET, Mormonism, theism)
February 22 - Why Mormons are probably atheists (atheism, Mormonism, theism)
February 21 - Atheists who don’t know what they don’t believe in (atheism, theism)
February 20 - Kill some wolves before you die: A review of “The Grey” (Part 2) (atheism, Bertrand Russell, existentialism, Liam Neeson, nihilism, The Grey)
February 19 - Should you take the meteorite impact coverage? (insurance, statistics)
February 18 - From Mormon proxy baptism to alien spaceship impact coverage … and beyond! (Elie Wiesel, Judaism, Mormon, proxy baptism)
February 17 - Kill some wolves before you die: A review of “The Grey” (Part 1) (Liam Neeson, The Grey)
February 17 - The Third Face-in-Palme d’Or Award! (Face-in-Palme d'or)
February 16 - What’s wrong with Mormons performing proxy Jewish baptisms? How about nothing. (anti-semitism, Elie Wiesel, Mormonism, proxy baptism)
February 15 - Should you call out Gouranga? One-time Christian philosopher Michael Sudduth thinks so (Dale Tuggy, incarnation, John Hick, Krishna, Michael Sudduth, Trinities, Vaishnava Vedanta)
February 14 - Forever Velveteen: A reflection on the soul of consumerism (Being Consumed, consumerism, Velveteen Rabbit, William Cavanaugh)
February 11 - Reflections on a racist Starbucks cup (racism, Starbucks)
February 11 - The size of just about everything (science, universe)
February 10 - The second Face-in-Palme d’Or Award! (Face-in-Palme d'or)
February 9 - The problem of half-baked rebuttals (analogy, argument. epistemology, testimony)
February 8 - Why should a Christian think the Bible is inspired? (Part 1) (Bible, epistemology, inspiration, justification, knowledge, revelation)
February 6 - The impossible problem of transgender children (Girl Scounts, transgender)
February 3 - Psychopaths in the pulpit and pew (church, Clifford Olson, Deliver us from Evil, Oliver O'Grady, psychopath, psychopathy)
February 2 - Why you need to know about psychopaths (psychopath, psychopathy, We need to talk about Kevin)
February 1 - The psychopath’s condition: a truly tasteless analogy (ageusia, psychopath, psychopathy)
February 1 - Can institutions be compassionate? (compassion, institution)
February 1 - The moral blindness of the psychopath (epistemology, moral knowledge, psychopathy, Robert Hare)
January 30 - Can psychopaths be saved? (Christianity, Gary Ridgway, James Dobson, Jeffrey Dahmer, psychopathy, Ted Bundy)
January 27 - The fallible Jesus? (christology, incarnation, Jesus, omniscience)
January 26 - Must a Christian believe in the Trinity? (doctrine, heresy, orthodoxy, Trinity)
January 25 - Levitating teapots and other miraculous things (divine action, God, miracle)
January 24 - Why are Christian movies so bad? (Christian film, Courageous, Rabbit Hole)
January 23 - Will the real Christian please stand up? (christology, dogma, ecumenism, exclusivism, heresy, inclusivism, soteriology)
January 22 - Do you want to know the sins of your leaders? (media, Newt Gingrich, public information)
January 20 - Reflections on Jewsday: A Response to Paul Manata (prejudice, racism, stereotype)
January 20 - What unifies Christians for Christian unity week? (Christian unity, ecumenism)
January 20 - Newt Gingrich’s rhetorical brilliance (Newt Gingrich, rhetoric)
January 19 - Why Christians don’t give up God easily (and why atheists don’t accept him easily) (atheism, doubt, epistemology, God, ingression, noetic structure, theism)
January 18 - Was Tim Tebow cheating? (prayer, providence, satire, Tim Tebow)
January 18 - Did aliens seed life on earth? A modest defense of the panspermia hypothesis (intelligent design, panspermia, Stephen Meyer, Unbelievable)
January 17 - Patriotism properly defined (Jacques Ellul, kingdom theology, nationalism, patriotism)
January 16 - If people are not offended then there’s no offense (and other terrible reasoning) (Paul Manata, racism, Sports Illustrated)
January 16 - The get your own house in order (nationalist edition) objection (nationalism, Paul Manata, racism, rhetoric)
January 13 - Urinating on corpses and other costs of war (Benjamin Colton Barnes, militarism, Taliban, war)
January 12 - Seeking assurance that you won’t die in the fire: A tale of two buildings (arminianism, assurance, Calvinism, salvation, soteriology)
January 11 - Calvinism at Madame Tussauds (arminianism, Calvinism, love, omnibenevolence)
January 10 - Are Arminians better off when it comes to assurance? Why I’m not so sure. (arminianism, assurance, Calvinism, defeater, epistemology, falliblism)
January 9 - The grounds for excluding religious voices in secular society (dialogue, ethics, homosexuality, open society, pluralism, religion, secularism)
January 9 - Lament for the Video Store (culture, Netflix, technology, video)
January 7 - Jerry Shepherd on the Main stage (arminianism, Calvinism, imprecatory psalms, Jerry Shepherd, Reformed)
January 6 - The joy of hell (Calvinism, damnation, election, hell, imprecatory psalms)
January 5 - Imprecations for Arminians (Calvinism, imprecation, Reformed, sanctification)
January 4 - Nasty Newt Gingrich and the Drumbeat for War (Iran, military industrial complex, Newt Gingrich, pre-emptive strike)
January 4 - Who is on a tirade against Calvinism? (atheism, Calvinism, debate, love, omnibenevolence)
January 3 - Unreasonable Reason, or where is Jag Pointing? (epistemology, evidence, faith, reason)
January 2 - Playing on emotions or reasoning from them? (emotion, reason, reflection, theology)
January 1 - Compassion Reformed? Exploring the pastoral implications of Calvinism (Calvinism, pastoral theology, Reformed)

2011

December 31 - A New Year’s Greeting from Randal
December 31 - Anomie and the City: A Reflection on ‘Midnight in Paris’ (anomie, existentialism, Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen)
December 30 - Singing the praises of the imprecatory psalms? (imprecatory psalms)
December 29 - Please rescue me lest I drown: On the fear of losing faith (Christianity, doubt, faith, fear, reason)
December 28 - Christians singing pagan songs … and liking it (christology, culture, dualism, fundamentalism)
December 27 - Sometimes it is okay just to say ‘Merry Christmas’ (Christmas, evangelism, fundamentalism)
December 27 - Does love of one’s spouse require hatred of all others? (analogy, arminianism, Calvinism, metaphor, omnibenevolence)
December 26 - Why the Calvinist’s need to exclude some people from God’s love does not bode well (arminianism, Calvinism, omnibenevolence, theology)
December 25 - How do you schedule a convenient Christmas service? (Christmas, church, consumerism)
December 23 - Merry Christmas from Randal
December 22 - God loves you … but he hates that guy over there (arminianism, Calvinism, election, imprecatory psalm, omnibenevolence, providence, theology)
December 21 - North Korea may be crazy but what are we? (Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Kim Jung-Il, North Korea, propaganda)
December 20 - Does God hate those he does not save? (Calvinism, causation, free will, God, love, omnibenevolence, providence)
December 18 - The Jesus double standard (apologetics, Christopher Marlowe, evidence, history, Jesus, resurrection, Shakespeare)
December 17 - God and Wonderdad: A final discussion of antitheism (antitheism, atheism, rationality, reason)
December 17 - Frank’s rather (un)righteous protest against God (antitheism, atheism, Bertrand Russell, God)
December 16 - On the passing of Christopher Hitchens (atheism, cancer, Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Wilson)
December 16 - Mission Statements as Symbols: A Further Reflection (institution, mission statement)
December 16 - Developing Christ-minded leaders who make a difference in the world? (advertising, church, seminary)
December 14 - The end of antitheism once and for all (antitheism, atheism, God, rationality, skepticism, theism)
December 14 - On those who loathe God (antitheism, apatheism, atheism, Christopher Hitchens, God, theism)
December 13 - Tasting wine and sensing God (epistemology, faith, God, knowledge, proper basicality)
December 13 - Should you care if God exists? (apatheism, atheism, Atlantic Monthly, God, Jonathan Rauch, Noam Chomsky, theism)
December 12 - Canada plays the Grinch that Stole Christmas in Durban (Grinch, Kyoto Protocol, Peter Kent, Stephen Harper)
December 11 - What’s splitting your church? Worship music or genocide? (church, ecclesiology, genocide, Rwanda, worship wars)
December 10 - The strange journey of the Swedish Atheist (book that is) (InterVarsity Press, the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetics Rabbit Trails, The Swedish Atheist)
December 10 - Does God choose his nature? The bad implications of a seemingly good idea (divine nature, essentialism, God)
December 9 - The farewell tour for Glen Campbell, and for you and me (Glen Campbell, mortality)
December 8 - Why you shouldn’t sing “Silent Night” at city hall (Christmas, pluralism, secularism, secularization)
December 7 - Why biblical theologians need philosophical theology (Anselm, biblical theology, Jerry Shepherd, perfect being, philosophical theology, philosophy, theology)
December 7 - Did Jesus ever have an idol? (God, idolatry, Jerry Shepherd, omniscience, theology)
December 7 - Could God be other than maximally loving? Yet another response to Jerry (Anselm, Jerry Shepherd, perfect being, theology)
December 6 - The 99 percent don’t have dreadlocks or nose rings (99 percent, Occupy movement, Occupy Wall Street, social justice)
December 5 - Holiday shopping help from Eerdmans (Christmas shopping, Eerdmans)
December 5 - Does God need evil? Jerry Shepherd and Jonathan Edwards (Calvinism, election, God's glory, Jerry Shepherd, John Calvin, John Gill, Jonathan Edwards, providence, Reformed)
December 5 - Bad idea of the week: Michael Buble singing “Santa Baby” (Christmas, Michael Buble, Santa Baby)
December 3 - Fee-fi-foe-fum, I smell the blood of an Arminian! (arminianism, biblical theology, Calvinism, Reformed, systematic theology)
December 2 - A Review of Faith Lacking Understanding (Faith lacking understanding, Mike Robinson, The Lord God Exists)
December 2 - The day turns to night: on the sexualization of childhood (Bratz, childhood, consumerism, ethics, morality, sexuality)
December 2 - An open minded challenge to the dogmatic doubter (agnosticism, atheism, free thinker)
December 2 - Would you want your daughter to become a pediatrician … or a porn star? (atheism, ethics, morality, pornography, theism)
November 30 - The nutcracker that thought he’d stoke the fire and other bad ideas (atheism, existentialism, meaning, nihilism, Nutcracker, purpose, theism)
November 29 - Can you see the sun if it doesn’t reflect light? (C.S. Lewis, existentialism, God, meaning, nihilism, purpose)
November 27 - God or Godless nears completion (atheism, debate, God or Godless, John W. Loftus, theism)
November 25 - The Confessions of an Ouranophobe, or How I got over my fear of heaven (afterlife, eschatology, heaven, ouranophobia, resurrection)
November 23 - Life is a concentration camp, so why are you smiling? (existentialism, meaning, nihilism, purpose, Woody Allen)
November 22 - Have you faced down any tanks lately? (Aung San Suu Kyi, social justice, Tiananmen Square)
November 22 - Two servings of fruit in every can? (advertising, truth)
November 21 - Can the Calvinist and Arminian ever sing Kumbaya … together? (arminianism, Calvinism, dialogue, ecumenism)
November 20 - Calvinism and the Contrast Effect (Calvinism, contrast effect, election)
November 19 - What on earth happened to Colton Burpo? A Discussion of “Heaven is for Real” (afterlife, Colton Burpo, eschatology, heaven, Heaven is for Real, near death experience, Todd Burpo)
November 17 - How many wrong beliefs did Jesus have? (christology, error, Jesus Christ, kenosis, omniscience)
November 16 - The unlikely story of Finding God in the Shack (Biblica, Encontre Deus na Cabana, Finding God in the Shack, InterVarsity Press, Randal Rauser, Roger Olson)
November 15 - Why Calvinists should be universalists or Arminians (arminianism, Calvinism, election, providence, red herring, universalism)
November 14 - Calvinism and the Arbitrary Camp Director Revisited: A Response to Andrew (arminianism, Calvinism, omnibenevolence, perfect goodness, providence)
November 13 - Lessons from the Pool of Life (ethics, law, morality)
November 10 - Every community has controversies they don’t teach (or even tolerate) (academic freedom, censorship, free speech)
November 10 - First they came for Michael Licona (academic freedom, Al Mohler, censorship, evangelicalism, inerrancy, Michael Licona, Norman Geisler, scholarship, Southern Baptist)
November 9 - Tourette’s Syndrome, children and the problem of evil (natural evil, problem of evil, theodicy, Tourtette's Syndrome)
November 8 - The luxury of pet peeves (pet peeve, poverty)
November 8 - And the first winner of the “Face-in-Palme d’Or” is… (Daniel Dennett, Face-in-Palme d'or)
November 7 - Science is a fallible, flawed, and all-too-human human endeavor (but it is also the best thing going) (fallibilism, science, Society of Edmonton Atheists)
November 6 - Is Daniel Dennett a conspiracy wingnut? (bullshit, conspiracy, Daniel Dennett, Harry Frankfurt, philosophical theology, philosophy of religion)
November 5 - God or Godless a step closer to publication (God or Godless, John W. Loftus)
November 5 - Unintelligent double standards on intelligent design (intelligent design, The atheist missionary)
November 5 - The sad face of atheistic fundamentalism (atheism, fundamentalism, Society of Edmonton Atheists)
November 5 - In search of an arsonist: On testing for intelligent design (intelligent design, Slave Lake fire)
November 4 - God vs. the flying spaghetti monster at the Society of Edmonton Atheists (Part 1) (atheism, Bertrand Russell, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Flying Teapot, plausibility structure, Society of Edmonton Atheists, theism)
November 2 - Meeting Scrooge at Halloween (generosity, Halloween)
November 1 - Health Care Reform, Intelligent Design, and Public Debate (Goddidit, health care, intelligent design, public option, socialism, Stephen Meyer)
October 31 - On scaring the hell out of your friends: An All Hallows Eve Meditation (evangelism, fear, Halloween, Hell House, review)
October 29 - Morriston on the evil god hypothesis (defeater, evil demon, evil god, problem of evil, skeptical theism, Stephen Law, theodicy, Wes Morriston)
October 29 - “The Lovely Bones,” and why Roger Ebert will not like a film version of “The Shack” (evil, providence, Roger Ebert, The Lovely Bones, The Shack, William Paul Young)
October 28 - Conservative Christians and cryptozoology (cryptozoology, dinosaurs, The Troll Hunter, theology, young earth creationism)
October 27 - If Jesus were a CEO he’d run a B Corporation (B corporation, economic justice, Joel Bakan, The Corporation)
October 26 - Qoheleth meets the Academy (academy, Ecclesiastes, existentialism, Qoheleth)
October 25 - Evil God at Chez Alice (Chez Alice, Descartes' evil demon, epistemology, evil god, problem of evil, Stephen Law)
October 25 - God vs. the Flying Spaghetti Monster at the Society of Edmonton Atheists (atheism, Flying Spaghetti Monster, God, Society of Edmonton Atheists, theism)
October 24 - Steve Hays redefines colorblindness (Calvinism, indoctrination, Reformed, Steve Hays, Triablogue)
October 24 - Off to Princeton Theological Seminary (Princeton Theological Seminary)
October 24 - Stephen Law vs. William Lane Craig: Round 2! (Law’s first rebuttal) (atheism, debate, God, Stephen Law, theism, William Lane Craig)
October 22 - Why won’t Dawkins stop the spread of Craig’s virulent memes? (debate, meme, mind virus, religion, Richard Dawkins, William Lane Craig)
October 22 - Did a fairy kill Stephen Law’s apple tree? (explanation, fairy, God, inference to the best explanation, Stephen Law)
October 22 - Why Dawkins’ refusal to debate Craig is not only cowardly, it is immoral (debate, Richard Dawkins, William Lane Craig)
October 20 - Why Dawkins says he won’t debate Craig (atheism, debate, Richard Dawkins, theism, William Lane Craig)
October 20 - Where Stephen Law goes wrong with his evil god argument (defeater, evil god, problem of evil, Stephan Law, The atheist missionary, theodicy)
October 19 - Stephen Law vs. William Lane Craig: Round 2! (Craig’s first rebuttal) (atheism, debate, evidential problem of evil, problem of evil, Stephen Law, theism, William Lane Craig)
October 19 - Was Stephen Law guilty of a bait and switch? (atheism, debate, Landon Hedrick, omnibenevolence, perfect goodness, Stephen Law, William Lane Craig)
October 19 - Stephen Law vs. William Lane Craig: Round One! (atheism, debate, Justin Brierley, Stephen Law, theism, William Lane Craig)
October 18 - You can’t defend the punishment of infants for the sins of their nation so don’t try (God, Haiti, Lamentations, natural evil, problem of evil, providence, theodicy)
October 17 - Must we apologize for the apologists? (apologetics, argument, defense, evidence, rationality, sophistry, truth)
October 17 - On moral failure in the pastorate (adultery, ethics, moral failure, morality, pastorate)
October 17 - Can Jesus make a better Caesar salad than my wife? (christology, Dallas Willard, incarnation, Jesus Christ, knowledge, omniscience)
October 15 - Jesus Christ meets Jeanne Christa: Accommodation run amok? (accommodation, feminism, feminist theology, God, Jesus Christ)
October 15 - Is the ontological argument a “piece of crap”? (evidence, ontological argument, proof, Yugo)
October 15 - On Twitter (twitter)
October 14 - The last argument you’ll ever need? (Alvin Plantinga, atheism, evidence, justification, ontological argument, proof, rationalism, rationality, skepticism, theism)
October 14 - The debating strategy of John Loftus (atheism, debate, God or Godless, John W. Loftus, theism)
October 14 - Who would vandalize an atheist bus ad? (advertising, atheism, bus ad, censorship, Christianity, theism)
October 13 - Randal interviews the Ontological Argument (ontological argument)
October 13 - What makes for a good argument? Spinning your wheels with Anselm (apologetics, Dodge Tomahawk, ontological argument)
October 12 - God is maximally great, God is perfectly good, so we can thank him in every possible world (Anselm, God, modality, necessity, ontological argument, perfect being, possible world, theistic proof)
October 12 - That theologian from which greater behavior could be conceived (Anselm, perfect being theology, sin)
October 11 - On socialists like you (capitalism, economy, socialism)
October 11 - A third blushing attempt to rationalize babies being punished (Augustine, earthquake, Haiti, imputation, Landina, natural evil, providence, sin)
October 11 - Does God only care about abortion and homosexuality? (abortion, Cigna, evangelical ethics, healthcare, homosexuality, William Lane Craig)
October 10 - Could God have chosen to be a maximally perfect liar? (divine nature, God, nominalism, realism, truth, William of Ockham)
October 9 - Is God as perfect as I think he is? (Anselm, atheism, divine, God, intuition, perfection, theism, theology)
October 8 - Why Christians shouldn’t seek a “biblical worldview” (biblical worldview)
October 7 - Dawkins vs. Craig in book form (debate, Richard Dawkins, Steve Hays, William Lane Craig)
October 6 - A second blushing attempt to rationalize babies being punished (earthquake, Haiti, imputation, natural evil, original sin, providence, theodicy)
October 6 - A first blushing attempt to rationalize babies being punished (earthquake, karma, natural evil, Origen, pre-existentism, providence, theodicy)
October 5 - Does God punish people through natural disasters? (earthquake, God, Haiti, Pat Robertson, problem of evil, theodicy)
October 4 - Quote-mining Luther, Einstein and Feyerabend (Albert Einstein, Martin Luther, Paul Feyerabend, quote-mining)
October 4 - Quote others the way you would have them quote you (academia, charity, Martin Luther, scholarship)
October 3 - What was in Jesus’ hand? Lessons on why you can’t take the Bible literally word for word (apocalyptic, Bible, Christianity, doctrine, Gallup, hermeneutics, interpretation, revelation, theology)
October 3 - A jerk before Jesus becomes a jerk for Jesus (ethics, justice, Machine Gun Preacher, Roger Ebert, Sam Childers)
October 2 - Can Christians call God ‘Mother’? (feminism, Goddess worship, idolatry, metaphor, The Shack, William Paul Young)
September 30 - Should you marry your theology to the latest science? (Michael Shermer, NOMA, religion, science, theology, two worlds)
September 30 - As long as you teach the Bible, I have no problem with you. (biblical interpretation, doctrine, heresy, hermeneutics, heterodoxy, orthodoxy, Rob Bell, theology)
September 29 - Is the church supposed to be “a place for you”? (C.S. Lewis, church, consumerism, discipleship, ecclesiology, individualism, marketing, Rick Warren)
September 28 - Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. But which leaves you more damned? (ethics, J. Budziszewski, morals, Sophie's choice, The Line Through the Heart)
September 27 - Why won’t Paul Copan respond to Thom Stark? (apologetics, biblical ethics, Is God a Moral Compromiser?, Is God a Moral Monster?, truth)
September 27 - Has Freddie Mercury been resurrected for our age? (Freddie Mercury, Keith Green, Marc Martel, prophet, Queen)
September 26 - The moral confusion of Steve Hays (absolutes, ethics, objectivism, Steve Hays, subjectivism, Triablogue)
September 25 - Ouranophobia and its treatment (eschatology, heaven, ouranophobia)
September 25 - Does the legal system produce knowledge of guilt? A response to Clamat’s confusion (Clamat, court, guilt, justification, knowledge, law, truth)
September 24 - Why You Should Use Humor When Trying to Dialogue with Triablogue (dialogue, humor, parody, Patrick Chan, satire, Triablogue)
September 23 - Patrick Chan and “The Comeback” (George Costanza, parody, Patrick Chan, satire, Seinfeld, The Comeback)
September 23 - Why are so many Christians so pessimistic about eternity? (heaven, hell, hopeful universalism, judgment)
September 23 - What is Patrick Chan really up to? (bullshit, Patrick Chan, Triablogue, truth)
September 22 - Patrick Chan of Triablogue defends Randal Rauser with biting satire (Patrick Chan, Randal Rauser, satire, Steve Hays, Triablogue)
September 22 - Al Mohler says the devil is in the details. Ironically enough, he’s right. (Al Mohler, apologetics, inerrancy, inspiration, Michael Licona, resurrection, The Resurrection of Jesus)
September 22 - The unconscionable act of executing Troy Davis (capital punishment, death penalty, Georgia, Troy Davis)
September 21 - Marriage, ethics and the new ascetics (ethics, marriage, pvs, Steve Hayes, Steven's blog, Triablogue)
September 20 - Help Save Troy Davis (clemency, Troy Davis)
September 20 - Economists who buy lottery tickets: Reflections on Less Wrong (belief, economics, Eliezer Yudkowsky, epistemology, expected utility, justification, Less Wrong, lottery, rationality, reason, science)
September 19 - How should we interpret the religious skepticism of elite scientists? (belief, knowledge, poll, rationality, reason, religion, religious skepticism, science, survey)
September 19 - Randal’s Poems: “Weekend in the Woods” ("Weekend in the Woods", Alfa Romeo, poem, Randal Rauser)
September 19 - Randal’s Poems: “Winter Song” (poem, Randal Rauser, Winter Song)
September 18 - Till death do we part? Ethical reflection on marital vows (bioethics, divorce, ethics, marriage, pvs)
September 17 - Is it moral to divorce a spouse with Alzheimer’s Disease? (Alzheimer's Disease, Away from Her, divorce, ethics, Gordon Pinsent, Julie Christie, Pat Robertson)
September 16 - Does God answer prayers for parking spaces at the Pottery Barn? (ethics, God, prayer, providence)
September 14 - Something better than doubt (animal knowledge, doubt, Ernst Sosa, faith, reason, reflective knowledge)
September 14 - Is doubt good? Is skepticism a virtue? (belief, doubt, epistemology, How We Believe, Michael Shermer, rationality, reason, skepticism)
September 14 - Randal’s Poems: “Pine Tree RIP” (Pine Tree, Poetry)
September 13 - Ray Ingles on Religion (Ray Ingles, religion, supernatural)
September 13 - The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 12) (David Eller, religion, science, The End of Christianity)
September 10 - Why “God hated Esau” is of no use to the Calvinist (arminianism, Calvinism, divine nature, election, Esau, God, goodness, omnibenevolence, providence)
September 10 - Jesus Christ as Hero: A Sermon (Jesus Christ, sermon)
September 9 - You’re not as Crazy: Another Review (Mike Robinson, The Lord God Exists, You're not as crazy as I think)
September 9 - Why Eternal Conscious Torment isn’t the only game in town for a Christian (annihilationism, eternal conscious torment, hell, universalism)
September 9 - The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 11) (eternal conscious torment, hell, Keith Parsons, The End of Christianity)
September 9 - The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 10) (apologetics, history, Jesus Christ, resurrection, Robert M. Price, The End of Christianity)
September 8 - My conversation with Matt McCormick: A Disappointing Conclusion (confirmation bias, indoctrination, Matt McCormick, The End of Christianity, You're not as crazy as I think)
September 7 - On putting Matt McCormick’s argument to rest (history, inference to the best explanation, Jesus Christ, Matt McCormick, resurrection, The End of Christianity)
September 6 - Retractions in My Dialogue with Matt McCormick (decorum, Matt McCormick)
September 6 - From Jerusalem to Salem: A Conversation with Matt McCormick (epistemology, justification, knowledge, Matt McCormick, proper basicality, rationality, Salem witch trials, The End of Christianity)
September 5 - The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 9) (apologetics, Jesus, Matt McCormick, N.T. Wright, resurrection, The End of Christianity)
September 4 - “And if there’s life on other planets…” Reflections on God and E.T. (Part 2) (E.T., exotheology, Jesus Christ, multiple incarnations, pluralism, U.F.O.)
September 3 - Drag me to cinematic hell: A Review of “Don’t be afraid of the Dark” (Bailee Madison, cinemascore, Don't be afraid of the dark, Gulliermo Del Toro, Guy Pearce, horror, Katie Holmes, Roger Ebert, Troy Nixey)
September 3 - Is it better to affirm a truth for the wrong reasons than to deny it for the right ones? (atheism, Bertrand Russell, doubt, evidence, God, truth)
September 2 - “So and so is a liar” and other general attacks on the character of others (Bart Ehrman, lying, Matt Starr, slander)
September 2 - Intelligent design: The ultimate science stopper? (design inference, intelligent design, philosophy of science, science)
September 2 - The Wedge Strategy of Fiat USA and other nefarious intelligent designs (Discovery Institute, intelligent design, wedge document)
August 31 - Are catalysmic natural disasters appropriate for the children’s choir? (Bible, children's Bible, flood, Noah's ark, Sunday school)
August 31 - “And if there’s life on other planets…” Reflections on God and E.T. (aliens, Carl Sagan, E.T., exotheology, God, Larry Norman, SETI, UFOs)
August 31 - The God I really don’t understand (accommodation, canaanite genocide, Christopher Wright, herem)
August 28 - “He said he would prefer to go to Hell…” (damnation, doctrine, exclusivism, gospel, inclusivism, salvation, soteriology)
August 27 - On “Bible-haters” (Bible, bibliology, hermeneutics, inerrancy, inspiration, interpretation, irony, Stephen Crane, Steve Hays, The Red Badge of Courage, Triablogue)
August 27 - A plea for intelligently designed evolution (Darwinism, evolution, intelligent design)
August 26 - This movie goes on and on and on: A pious reflection on boredom (boredom, culture, film)
August 26 - Beliefs that are forever justified? (defeater, doubt, epistemology, faith, justification, rationality, reason, William Lane Craig)
August 26 - Dealing with Doubt? On William Lane Craig’s rather bad advice (defeater, doubt, epistemology, faith, William Lane Craig)
August 25 - Was “Expelled” intelligently designed? A Review (Ben Stein, creationism, Darwinism, evolution, expelled, intelligent design)
August 25 - Why Being Prolife Ain’t Easy (abortion, Peter Singer, poverty, prolife, The Life You Can Save)
August 24 - Isn’t it time to make peace with Darwin? (atheism, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, evolution)
August 24 - If “The Bible is not a children’s book” then why do we have children’s Bibles? (atonement, Bible, children, David and Goliath, genocide, Jesus, Joshua, Noah, Steve Hays, theology, Triablogue, war)
August 23 - While we’re on the topic of abortion, here’s a great debate (and the prochoice guy wins!) (abortion, David Boonin, debate, ethics, morality, Peter Kreeft)
August 23 - Did Adam Smith’s invisible hand give us the “Skymall” catalogue? (capitalism, consumer capitalism, consumerism, consumption, economics, environmentalism, ethics, The Story of Stuff)
August 22 - Abortion and the old Coat hanger Argument (abortion, bioethics, coat hanger argument, deontology, ethics, euthanasia, suicide, utilitarianism)
August 21 - How do you teach God’s genocide to children? (Adventure Bible, biblical violence, genocide, Joshua)
August 20 - The Intolerable Martin Luther (Martin Luther, Protestantism, Reformation, tolerance)
August 20 - Atheism in Dallas (apologetics, atheism, Christian Book Expo, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, debate, god is not Great, theism, William Lane Craig)
August 20 - The Shack under Attack? A Response to Mark Driscoll (heresy, Mark Driscoll, modalism, The Shack, Trinity, William Paul Young)
August 20 - Blasts from the Blogging Past (Christian Post, Randal Rauser, Tentative Apologist)
August 19 - Can analytic philosophy save theology? (academy, analytic philosophy, Analytic theology, Ars Disputandi, humanities, James Anderson, Michael Rea, Oliver Crisp, theology)
August 19 - Interview with Dana Pittman (Dana Pittman, Finding God in the Shack, radio, You're not as crazy as I think)
August 18 - Can we rationally believe in an atonement we don’t understand? (atonement, defeater, doctrine, faith, rationality, reason, theology, theory)
August 18 - The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 8) (atonement, imputation, Ken Pulliam, penal substitution, The End of Christianity)
August 17 - The Edsel of Christianity? (atheism, Bible, biblical studies, Christianity, Hector Avalos, inspiration, Jaco Gericke, John W. Loftus, justification, revelation, The End of Christianity, theism, Valerie Tarico)
August 17 - The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 7) (atheism, God, impassibility, The End of Christianity, theism, Valerie Tarico)
August 16 - Yahweh and Yahweh: A second and final footnote to my Jaco Gericke review (Jaco Gericke, names, Saul Kripke, The End of Christianity, Yahweh)
August 16 - What Gericke failed to do: A footnote to my review of Jaco Gericke (atheism, biblical studies, classical theism, God, Israel, Jaco Gericke, Yahweh)
August 15 - The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 6) (atheism, biblical studies, Jaco Gericke, The End of Christianity, Yahweh)
August 15 - If I shout a million times louder than you, does that make me right? (Fair Game, Joe Wilson, Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, truth, Valerie Plame)
August 15 - The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 5) (biblical studies, Hector Avalos, The End of Christianity)
August 15 - Is this the most John Loftus has to say? (John W. Loftus, The End of Christianity)
August 14 - A Review of “Christian Philosophy A-Z” (Christian philosophy, Christian Philosophy A-Z, Daniel J Hill, Randal Rauser)
August 14 - Inane Pop culture Top Ten Lists and the Top Five New York Songs (Ace Frehley, Billy Joel, Don Henley, Frank Sinatra, inane, internet, Isaac Air Freight, Simon and Garfunkel, sitcom, top ten lists)
August 13 - Is John W. Loftus “dumber than a box of rocks”? (devil, John W. Loftus, protest atheism, The End of Christianity)
August 12 - John W. Loftus and a Swede named Mario (apologetics, atheism, Christianity, defeater, John W. Loftus, probability, The End of Christianity)
August 12 - The Devil and the Atheist (devil, John W. Loftus, The End of Christianity)
August 11 - The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 4) (apologetics, atheism, John W. Loftus, naturalism, probability, The End of Christianity)
August 10 - The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 3) (apologetics, providentialism, Richard Carrier, The End of Christianity.John W. Loftus)
August 10 - Gratuitious sex, violence and swearing at the movies? The debate continues ("Happy Feet", censorship, film, film critics, Lars von Trier, moralism, MPAA, profanity, ratings)
August 9 - How many ‘F’ words in a film is TOO many? (censorship, ethics, film criticism, Hollywood vs. America, Michael Medved, moralism, morality, profanity)
August 9 - Belief in tooth fairies is dumb and belief in god is dumber (defeater, epistemology, God, justification, knowledge, tooth fairy, warrant)
August 8 - The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 2) (apologetics, atheism, David Eller, naturalism, The End of Christianity)
August 8 - Johh Loftus responds: “It is a believing review of my book!” (John W. Loftus, The End of Christianity, You're not as crazy as I think)
August 7 - The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 1) (apologetics, atheism, John W. Loftus, The End of Christianity)
August 6 - Why isn’t a universal atonement a more successful atonement? (apologetics, atheism, atonement, universalism)
August 6 - Who needs the Trinity? A Review of Fred Sanders, “The Deep Things of God” (Fred Sanders, God, The Deep Things of God, Trinity)
August 5 - Apologetics arguments are like a closet full of clothes (apologetics, evangelism)
August 5 - Beware of making really bad arguments for God’s existence (arguments for Gods existence, Crocodile Hunter, providence, Steve Irwin)
August 4 - Hell if universalism is true (George MacDonald, hell, universalism)
August 4 - God’s arbitrary choices and election (arminianism, Calvinism, election, omnibenevolence, providence)
August 3 - Would Jesus drink a Budweiser? (alcohol, ethics, Judaizers, legalism, Pharisees)
August 3 - Fantasy for fundamentalists or, how to defend Harry Potter to the conservative Christian (fantasy literature, fundamentalism, Harry Potter)
August 3 - The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver, and Other Apologetics Rabbit Trails (apologetics, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetics Rabbit Trails)
August 2 - Stephen Law’s Evil God Hypothesis (Believing Bullshit, problem of evil, Stephen Law, theodicy)
August 2 - The cover of my new apologetics book (apologetics, the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetics Rabbit Trails, The Swedish Atheist)
August 1 - Has Stephen Law been sucked into an intellectual black hole? A Review of Law’s “Believing Bullshit” (atheism, Believing Bullshit, bullshit, critical thinking, epistemology, indoctrination, rationality, reason, skepticism, Stephen Law)
August 1 - Calvinism and the arbitrary camp director (arminianism, Calvinism, election, providence)
July 31 - Tigers, Tabbys, and God’s special love for his elect (arminianism, Calvinism, election, love, omnibenevolence, providence)
July 30 - The day the Arminian Pride Parade came to Geneva (arminianism, Calvinism, election, grace, providence, soteriology)
July 30 - The Apologetics Song (apologetics)
July 29 - “Heresy” and Christian Publishing (Christian publishing, evangelicalism, heresy, open theism, orthodoxy, universalism)
July 29 - Hell we go again (arminianism, Calvinism, damnation, election, free will, hell, libertarianism, providence)
July 29 - Do Arminians have the same problem as Calvinists? (arminianism, Calvinism, election, Paul Manata, problem of evil, providence, theodicy)
July 28 - Can the Bible credibly be called “inspired”? (apologetics, Bible, Bible code, inspiration, prophecy, revelation)
July 28 - One Word in many, many words: A Review of Thom Stark’s “Human Faces” (Part 2) (bibliology, inerrancy, inspiration, The Human Faces of God, Thom Stark)
July 27 - Reading biblical horrors post-Enlightenment (Bible, biblical interpretation, Enlightenment, hermeneutics, human sacrifice, inspiration)
July 27 - Calvinism preaches a God of love, and yet… (Calvinism, divine love, election, Kobayashi Issa, Martin Luther, omnibenevolence, Philip Melanchthon, providence)
July 26 - Is God impotent in open theism? (heresy, open theism, orthodoxy)
July 26 - Should we really interpret the Bible literally when possible? (Bible, fundamentalism, hermeneutics, idiom, interpretation, John Walvoord, literary trope)
July 25 - A Reformed voice brings clarity to free will, providence and election (Calvinism, election, free will, Paul Manata, providence, Reformed)
July 25 - How fundamentalists undermine the authority of scripture (Bible, fundamentalism, Genesis, George Marsden, hermeneutics, inerrancy, inspiration, John Walvoord, Ken Ham, literal interpretation)
July 23 - Youth pastors who wear cardigans and other obstacles to the Kingdom (Christian Motorcyclists Association, contextualization, evangelism, mission)
July 23 - On wanting Christianity to End (atheism, Hector Avalos, John W. Loftus, The End of Christianity)
July 22 - What do we mean when we call something “heresy”? (heresy, heterodoxy, open theism, orthodoxy)
July 21 - The tortured attempts to avoid intelligent design continue (intelligent design, Joseph H. Axell, methodological naturalism, naturalism, science, William Dembski)
July 20 - Is Peter Pan satanic too? (culture, fantasy literature, fundamentalism, Harry Potter, Olabode Ososami, Peter Pan, witchcraft)
July 20 - On the ethics of a Christian positively blurbing a book on atheism (atheism, blurb, Christianity, ethics, John W. Loftus, philosophy of religion, The End of Christianity, worldview)
July 19 - “Is J.K. Rowling a witch?” and other vile fundamentalist Christian gossip (fundamentalism, gossip, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, literature, witchcraft)
July 18 - Does the Bible contain urban legends? (Bible, inspiration, Jephthah, Judges, urban legend)
July 17 - The Pornographic Harry Potter? On the near impossibility of reasoning with Christian fundamentalists (fundamentalism, Harry Potter, liberal arts, open society)
July 16 - Should we believe the universe exists? (defeaters, epistemology, evidence, Jerry Coyne, justification, rationality)
July 15 - An Open Letter to Harry Potter (fantasy literature, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling)
July 11 - For those awaiting comment
July 11 - Amazing Grace at the Gospel Mission (grace, sin)
July 9 - Leprechauns and God: The dialogue continues (Flying Spaghetti Monster, God, justification, knowledge, leprechaun, rationality, The atheist missionary, theism)
July 8 - Could Jesus have given the wrong theological answer? (doctrine, Jesus, omniscience, orthodoxy, theology)
July 7 - Intelligent Design, explanation, and the laws of physics (intelligent design, laws of physics, philosophy of science, scientific explanation)
July 6 - The evangelical form of transubstantiation (bibliology, inerrancy, inspiration, transubstantiation)
July 5 - Intelligent Design, Unknown Intelligence, and a Ouija Board (design filter, intelligent design, ouija board, philosophy of science, William Dembski)
July 5 - On my preliminary research into ghosts (Edmonton Paranormal Society, ghosts, paranormal activity)
July 4 - Does a really old universe show that human beings are not important? (age of the universe, agnosticism, anthropology, apologetics, atheism, Mark Twain, skepticism, teleology, theism)
July 3 - God, atheism, and the de-centered universe (astronomy, atheism, cosmology, God, theism, universe)
July 2 - Why denying intelligent design borders on insanity (directed contingency, intelligent design, philosophy of science, science)
July 1 - Leprechauns and God (atheism, God, personal incredulity argument, skepticism, theism, village atheism)
July 1 - Unintelligent arguments against intelligent design: A Primer (intelligent design, philosophy of science, science, teleology)
July 1 - Sponsor an African child and save the arctic narwhal, and why I choose to do both (doctrine of creation, environmental ethics, environmentalism, eschatology, World Vision, World Wildlife Fund)
June 30 - Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses religion, bacteria, and the meaning of life (agnosticism, astronomy, atheism, meaning of life, Neil deGrasse Tyson)
June 29 - On God, leprechauns and really bad analogies (analogy, atheism, problem of evil, protest atheism, theodicy)
June 28 - On Affirmative Atheism (affirmative atheism, atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Nagel)
June 28 - Can an atheist hate God? (atheism, Dostoyevsky, protest atheism, The Brothers Karamazov, theism)
June 27 - What is the Greatest Enemy of Faith? (belief, Christianity, doctrine, doubt, epistemology, faith, Peter Kreeft, theology, truth)
June 27 - Defending the Apologetics Company Man? (apologetics, company man, objectivity, Paul Manata)
June 25 - Apologetics and the ‘Company Man’ Image (apologetics, company man, truth, worldview)
June 25 - On a theologian, his God, and his girls (Bad English, doubt, epistemology, faith, rationality, reason, When I see you smile)
June 24 - Looking up to God or down a deep well: A Review of Thom Stark’s “Human Faces” (Part 1) (Bible, inspiration, The Human Faces of God, Thom Stark)
June 23 - Who cares about truth when you have urban legends? (evangelicalism, gospel, truth, urban legend)
June 22 - Purgatory for Protestants (eschatology, ghosts, paranormal, pareschatology, Protestantism, purgatory)
June 21 - Should Christians believe in ghosts? (death, eschatology, ghosts, Gregory the Great, pareschatology, supernaturalism)
June 21 - Reflections on the Thom Stark-Paul Copan debate (Is God a Moral Compromiser?, Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan, Thom Stark)
June 20 - Can we freely dispense with free will? (atheism, ethics, free will, hard determinism, humanism, naturalism, soft determinism, theism)
June 20 - My candidate for the most obnoxious book of the year (IFII, Irreverent funny informative introductions, Katie Corcoran Lytle, Ken Lytle, The Little Book of BIG F*#K Ups)
June 20 - Random thoughts on Randy in Rio (Rio de Janeiro)
June 15 - Religion briefly defined (atheism, God, Paul Tillich, religion, secularism)
June 14 - Consumerism as Religion (Christianity, consumerism, gospel, Jesus Christ, materialism)
June 14 - More powerful than a Bugatti and louder than a Harley (Bugatti Veyron, Harley Davidson, space shuttle)
June 14 - Why “defeating naturalism” is harder said than done (Christianity, epistemology, externalism, falsification, justification, naturalism, physicalism, rationality, Richard Carrier, warrant, worldview)
June 12 - Why did God create carnivores? (carnivory, eschatology, natural evil, predation, resurrection, the crazy things we believe, theodicy)
June 11 - Why are atheists so obsessed with Zeus? (atheism, rhetoric, zeus)
June 11 - The Crazy Things We Believe Introduction (the crazy things we believe)
June 10 - Dogmatic Daniel’s degenerating dialogue (atheism, dialogue, dogmatism, fundamentalism, naturalism, Society of Edmonton Atheists, worldview)
June 9 - Must Hitler burn forever? (Adolf Hitler, annihilation, damnation, eternal conscious torment, hell, universalism)
June 8 - Debriefing my meeting with the Society of Edmonton Atheists (atheism, Christianity, dialogue, Society of Edmonton Atheists, theism)
June 7 - Inerrancy by induction? (Bible, errancy, firmament, genocide, herem, inerrancy, inspiration, scripture)
June 7 - Can N.T. Wright save Paul the Apostle? (Apostle Paul, Cretan, inerrancy, inspiration, N.T. Wright, prejudice, Titus)
June 6 - Does God ‘rape the will’ to save people from hell? (foreknowledge, free will, God, hell, Norman Geisler, predestination, providence, rape)
June 6 - Free will, hell, and reasonable appeals to emotion (annihilationism, free will, hell, universalism)
June 3 - Luxury hotel pet peeves (elevator, Hilton, hotel, Hyatt, pet peeves)
June 2 - James and his resurrected brother (1 Corinthians 15, abduction, inference to the best explanation, James, Jesus Christ, miracle, Paul, resurrection)
June 1 - On slurring Cretans and Indians (ethnicity, inerrancy, inspiration, Paul, prejudice, racism, Titus)
May 31 - Happy trails to you (biblical inspiration, hermeneutics, Logos workshop, Notre Dame University)
May 31 - Inerrancy, liars, evil brutes and lazy gluttons (Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, Cretans, inerrancy, inspiration, Titus)
May 30 - Speaking in Brazil (Brazil, Encontre Deus na Cabana, Nucleo Convivencias)
May 30 - Alister McGrath writes fantasy? What’s next? A cookbook? (Alister McGrath, fantasy literature, The Aedyn Chronicles)
May 30 - Reincarnation and Christianity (Christianity, Ian Stevenson, naturalism, Old Souls, reincarnation, Tom Shroder)
May 29 - Speaking at the Society of Edmonton Atheists (atheism, prejudice, skepticism, Society of Edmonton Atheists)
May 29 - How to support the troops on Memorial Day ("Body of War", Ellen Spiro, Joseph Stiglitz, Memorial Day, militarism, Phil Donahue, support our troops)
May 28 - Can you name one scholar who accepts the resurrection but isn’t a Christian? (christology, Jesus Christ, New Testament history, resurrection)
May 27 - Goddidit and The Chatty Skeptic Doll (Goddidit, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, naturalism)
May 26 - Heathenism, naturalism, and other unstated prejudices (indoctrination, naturalism, Neo-Darwinism, New Testament scholarship, supernaturalism)
May 25 - Getting to the bedrock of naturalism (agnosticism, atheism, indoctrination, naturalism, pedagogy, skepticism, The atheist missionary)
May 25 - Do Atheists discriminate? (atheism, discrimination, faith, immigration, indoctrination, religion, theism, xenophobia)
May 25 - The Atheist Missionary continues to justify his prejudices (atheism, dogma, education, indoctrination, naturalism, pedagogy, social epistemology, The Atheism Missionary)
May 24 - Royal flushes, resurrections, and the things you teach your children (education, historiography, indoctrination, naturalism, pedagogy, resurrection, worldview)
May 23 - Would you teach your child that Great Grampy got a Royal Flush? (education, epistemology, indoctrination, miracle, pedagogy)
May 22 - Entomophobia meets Reason: A teachable moment (education, epistemology, faith, indoctrination, rationality, reason)
May 22 - Dawkins’ infinite regress and why it really matters (epistemology, faith, infinite regress, knowledge, reason, Richard Dawkins)
May 21 - The letter Dawkins wrote, and the letter Jerry Rivard would like to think Dawkins wrote (authority, epistemology, faith, indoctrination, Jerry Rivard, knowledge, rationality, Richard Dawkins, tradition, truth)
May 20 - Why do we make food cute and personal? (chicken, commercial food production, personification, produce)
May 20 - ‘Dawkins was Wrong.’ Come on, say it. Say it! (atheism, authoritarianism, empiricism, free thought, Richard Dawkins, secularism, self-referential defeat)
May 19 - Debunking Christianity: A blog for Joe Sixpack Atheist (atheism, Debunking Christianity, John W. Loftus)
May 19 - Richard Dawkins’ foolish advice to his daughter (epistemology, evidence, faith, Rational Response Squad, reason, Richard Dawkins, self-referential defeat)
May 19 - Faith and Reason at War? A time for repentance and reconciliation (epistemology, faith, reason, truth)
May 19 - Faith versus Reason? A call for an end to the warfare myth (faith, knowledge, rationality, reason, truth)
May 18 - Taking the stigma out of doubt (doubt, faith, health and wealth, problem of evil, prosperity theology)
May 18 - Is Mother Teresa in hell? (damnation, Desmond Tutu, hell, Mother Teresa)
May 17 - Why you should probably sit out the slut walk (date rape, Edmonton, feminism, misogyny, Slut walk, toronto)
May 17 - Deep thoughts on Justin Bieber (Justin Bieber)
May 16 - Why there is nothing wrong with being certain in your beliefs (dogmatism, John J. Collins, religion, Richard Dawkins, tolerance, truth)
May 15 - On the Myth of Religious Violence (Christopher Hitchens, Nicholas Humphrey, Sam Harris, The Myth of Religious Violence, William Cavanaugh)
May 14 - Petitionary prayer and the final hours of a Skoal hockey puck (evidence, inference to the best explanation, intercessory prayer, justification, naturalism, petitionary prayer, rationality, reductionism)
May 13 - A Bible so inspired you’d never know it! (apologetics, Bible, Charles Hodge, incarnation, Peter Enns)
May 13 - Is God a literary genius? (apologetics, Bible, George Mavrodes, Leadme.org)
May 13 - Can a Christian be a psychic? (Christianity, clairvoyance, esp, God and the Philosophers, Sam Raimi, Stanley Kubrick, The Gift, The Shining, Thomas V. Morris)
May 12 - Personifying the problem of evil (apostrophe, atheism, Jerry Rivard, naturalism, personification, problem of evil, Stephen Crane, theism)
May 12 - Atheists, the problem of evil, and lame Duane (atheism, Christianity, problem of evil, The atheist missionary, theism, theodicy)
May 11 - Stephen Maitzen, theism, and moral duty (atheism, deontological ethics, Eleonore Stump, morality, Stephen Maitzen, theism)
May 10 - Another reason to love Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes, epistemology, philosophy)
May 10 - The Meaningless Post or the tyrrany of running a blog (blogging, internet, meaning, nihilism)
May 8 - Is Paul the Apostle guilty of hate speech against atheists? (atheism, hate speech, Paul, Romans)
May 7 - Can atheists be trusted? (atheism, Christianity, ethics, meta-ethics, moral objectivism, morality, Romans, Stephen Maitzen)
May 7 - Cartoonist Lynn Johnston on why she left the church (Christianity, faith, For Better or for Worse, Lynn Johnston)
May 6 - A really bad argument against inclusivism (Clark Pinnock, exclusivism, inclusivism, justification, R. Douglas Geivett, W. Gary Phillips)
May 6 - What would it take to make Canada the policeman of the world? (Canada, Christian ethics, geopolitics, political science)
May 5 - Does the Golden Rule apply in geopolitics? (American exceptionalism, assassination, George W Bush, Golden Rule, Noam Chomsky, War in Iraq)
May 4 - American-based terrorism, or, Why I think I’d like to be a Quaker (Machiavelli, Orlando Bosch, Osama Bin Laden, terrorism)
May 4 - Why Jesus is (probably not) coming back in my lifetime (or yours) (Christians, end times, millennium Edgar Whisenant, rapture)
May 3 - From the caves to the capitals: who are the terrorists? (realpolitik, terrorism, war)
May 2 - Osama is dead! And there shall be dancing in the streets! (Christian ethics, Osama Bin Laden)
May 1 - An illustration for the wisdom of conservatism (theological and otherwise) (Christianity, conservatism, doctrine, tradition)
April 30 - Why it pays to be an ‘unstrategic’ Christian (homosexuality, honesty, Kingdom of God, sin)
April 30 - The Ray Charles Problem of Evil (If I Could, problem of evil, Ray Charles)
April 30 - How close have you come to killing somebody? A reflection on Gus Van Sant’s “Paranoid Park” (Gus van Sant, Paranoid Park)
April 29 - Saving money on a stamp? An ethical conundrum (consequentialism, deontological ethics, ethics, utilitarian ethics, virtue ethics)
April 29 - How much evil could God allow for a greater good? (God, greater goods, problem of evil, providence, theodicy)
April 29 - Something (not) worth celebrating (Kate Middleton, monarchy, visible knickers)
April 28 - Christians and the sin of hating homosexuals (Barbara Ehrenreich, Christian ethics, Christian Research Institute, CRI, homosexuality, Jack Chick, Lynn Johnston, same-sex marriage)
April 28 - The very worst reason to reject universalism (damnation, eternal conscious torment, hell, justification, Lost Dogs, Ray Comfort, Rob Bell, universalism)
April 27 - Why conservatism is often riskier than you might think (and other observations on losing faith) (belief, conservatism, doxastic voluntarism, epistemology, faith, liberalism)
April 27 - It is what it is (conversation)
April 26 - The ignorance of Richard Dawkins defended (but not very well) (Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, theology)
April 26 - Does God ever visit Ronald McDonald House? (natural evil, problem of evil, Ronald McDonald House, suffering)
April 26 - Thom Stark’s review of Paul Copan’s “Is God a Moral Monster?” (Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan, Thom Stark)
April 25 - The universe and an agent cause (agent causation, Big Bang, cosmological argument, event causation, infinite regress, universe)
April 25 - The Always Prayer Shawl: A Reflection on Living Tradition (Judaism, The Always Prayer Shawl, tradition)
April 24 - When the resurrection comes to Afghanistan and Wall Street: An Easter Reflection (Easter, Inside Job, Jesus Christ, new creation, Restrepo, resurrection)
April 23 - Death to happy clappy Christianity: A Holy Saturday Meditation (Christian discipleship, Christianity, depression, Holy Saturday, Larry Norman)
April 23 - Conservative evangelicals, environmental hatred, and bad language (environmentalism, evangelicalism, evangelicals, hypocrisy)
April 22 - Evidence that Walt Disney created the universe? (cosmologial argument, creation of the universe, Walt Disney)
April 22 - The Death of Jesus, the rape of a woman, and a concept called “Imputation” (atonement, crucifixion, Good Friday, Jesus Christ, penal substitution)
April 22 - The day I (almost) met Prince William (sort of) (Prince William)
April 21 - Why is God necessary? (atheism, contingency, cosmological argument, God, necessity, perfect being theology)
April 21 - The campfire post
April 20 - Grow up or shut up Rauser (atheism, dialogue, skepticism, theism)
April 20 - The most amazing thing imaginable (atheism, explanation, origin of the universe, Richard Swinburne, theism)
April 20 - God is “complex”? (complexity, God, Richard Dawkins, simplicity)
April 19 - Can Dawkins (or at least his argument) be saved? (Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion)
April 19 - Rock stars have feelings too: My encounter with Kip Winger (Kip Winger)
April 18 - Why no professional philosopher would use Dawkins’ argument (agnosticism, atheism, design, evolution, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion)
April 17 - Three good books by atheists (hint: they’re not ‘new’ atheists) (Graham Oppy, J. Howard Sobel, J.L. Mackie)
April 17 - Is the non-practicing pedophile better than the rest of us? (goodnss, morality, virtue)
April 16 - Pedophiles and rock stars: A reflection on “The Woodsman” (evil, Kevin Bacon, original sin, pedophilia, Roger Ebert, The Woodsman)
April 16 - Dontcha just hate that weather guy? (meteorologist, scapegoat)
April 15 - A great “godless” book (agnosticism, atheism, Catholicism, doubt, faith, Godless, Pete Hautman, rationality)
April 15 - Charlie Sheen on the Road (Charlie Sheen)
April 14 - Lessons from the Sarcastic God (A subversive quiet time meditation) (God, Job, sarcasm)
April 14 - Cool Christians riding on The Wildside (Balaam's Ass, Bandidos, Christian Motorcyclists Association, CMA, Donald McGavran, evangelism, G.K. Chesterton, Hells Angels, homogeneous unit principle)
April 12 - The problem of uncool Christianity (apologetics, Christian Motorcyclists Association, CMA, cool, evangelism, plausibility structure)
April 11 - “Is God a Moral Monster? A Review (Part 4) (ethnic cleansing, genocide, Is God a Moral Monster?, Old Testament ethics, Paul Copan)
April 10 - You ever smoke crack? (addiction, crack, Montana Meth, sin)
April 9 - Inerrancy: how to save a lost concept by comparing the Bible to “Ulysses” (bibliology, inerrancy, inspiration, James Joyce, scripture, Ulysses)
April 9 - Would you choose God over truth? (You're not as crazy as I think)
April 8 - “Soul Surfer” and the idea of “faith-based films” (Bethany Hamilton, Brad Bird, faith-based films, Mel Gibson, Roger Ebert, Roger Moore, Soul Surfer)
April 8 - Freddie Mercury and other lonely (and not so lonely) lost souls (Augustine, divine hiddenness, Freddie Mercury, God)
April 7 - Inerrancy faces anti-trinitarians, open theists and holocaust deniers (anti-semitism, Bruce Ware, Clark Pinnock, ETS, inerrancy, Michael Shermer, open theism, Raul Hilberg, Trinitarianism)
April 6 - Affirming, implying, and inerrancy (implicature, inerrancy, inspiration, Paul Manata)
April 5 - “Is God a Moral Monster?” A Review (Part 3) (Is God a Moral Monster?, Old Testament ethics, Paul Copan, stoning)
April 5 - The hottest thing in the kitchen (conservatism, liberalism, Thom Stark)
April 4 - Crazy Idea Video
April 3 - “Gasland” on fracking up the landscape: A Review (fracking, Gasland, Josh Fox, natural gas)
April 3 - “Is God a Moral Monster?” A Review (Part 2) (Abraham and Isaac, human sacrifice, Is God a Moral Monster?, Old Testament morality, Paul Copan)
April 1 - Burned before you know it (age of accountability, damnation, hell, justice)
April 1 - “Is God a Moral Monster?” A Review (Part 1) (Is God a Moral Monster?, new atheism, Old Testament ethics, Paul Copan)
March 30 - New Crazy Radio Interview (He's Alive Radio, Melissa Flores, You'e not as crazy as I think)
March 30 - Does extraordinary uncleanliness require extraordinary soap? (agnosticism, atheism, defeaters, epistemology, evidence, naturalism, rationality, skepticism)
March 29 - Back from the New York Groove (Part 2) (bafflegab, bullshit, eternal conscious torment, G.A. Cohen, Harry Frankfurt, hell, Princeton Theological Seminary)
March 28 - Heads up for an interesting Crazy interview (Bob Dutko, WMUZ)
March 28 - The Toothy Grin of the Fisker Karma (Fisker Karma)
March 26 - Russell’s Teapot: An analogy worthy of a first year undergraduate (agnosticism, atheism, Bertrand Russell, materialism, Russell's Teapot, skepticism, theism)
March 25 - Back from the New York Groove (Part 1) (Bill Mallonee, Dean Zimmerman, NT Wright, Peter van Inwagen)
March 17 - New York, New York! (New York)
March 15 - Efficient causes, final causes, and the creepiest song of the seventies (efficient cause, final cause, Knock three times, Tony Orlando)
March 15 - Please Mr. Dylan, step away from the microphone: A response to Paul Manata (Paul Manata, You're not as crazy as I think)
March 14 - When astronauts attempt to wax poetic (God, Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gagarin)
March 13 - The spectacular success of methodological naturalism … or scientism run amok? (atheism, healing, methodological naturalism, miracle, naturalism)
March 12 - Why “127 Hours” is a cut above your average film (127 Hours, Aron Ralston, Danny Boyle, James Franco, Touching the Void)
March 11 - Paul Manata is from Mars. I am from Venus (Paul Manata, You're not as crazy as I think)
March 11 - Paul Manata’s Crazy review (Paul Manata, You're not as crazy as I think)
March 10 - What the virgin birth isn’t (Marcion, Tertullian, virgin birth, virginal conception)
March 10 - The 26 minutes Toronto stood still (The Drew Marshall Show, You're not as crazy as I think)
March 9 - On dreams that should be lucid (lucid dreams)
March 9 - Crazy Review #3 (Bryce Ashlin-Mayo, You're not as crazy as I think)
March 9 - Forget New Years. What’s your Ash Wednesday vow? (Ash Wednesday, Lent)
March 9 - Why we should all be driving a Tata (if we’re lucky) (climate change, environmental ethics, externality, morality, Ron Kilno, Tata)
March 8 - The thin ice of orthodoxy (adiaphora, Christianity, essentialism, heresy, heterodoxy, orthodoxy)
March 8 - The Apostate Atheist (agnosticism, apostasy, atheism, Christianity, The atheist missionary, theism)
March 7 - Must a Christian believe God exists? (essentialism, heresy, heterodoxy, orthodoxy, Rob Bell)
March 6 - How to declare Rob Bell not an evangelical theologian (if you must) (Hans Kung, Inquisition, Justin Taylor, Rob Bell, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith)
March 6 - Rob Bell, the heresy hunters, and the evangelical culture of fear (Al Mohler, evangelicalism, heresy, heterodoxy, John Piper, Justin Taylor, orthodoxy, Rob Bell, universalism)
March 5 - Flushing pseudo-objectivity out of the bushes (objectivism, perspectivalism, Raul Hilberg)
March 5 - The most outrageous thing I’ve heard all day (objectivism, perspectivalism, Raul Hilberg)
March 5 - When is a medical anomaly a miracle? (aplastic anemia, divine action, healing, miracle, providence)
March 4 - Do you think he’d hold that position if he was skeptical of the existence of God? (Ben Witherington, orthodoxy, social epistemology)
March 4 - On deferring to scholarly consensus (epistemology, New Testament, rationality, Robert Price, scholarly consensus)
March 3 - From Paul meeting Jesus to Pheidippides meeting Pan? (apologetics, epistemology, Gospel of Peter, Gospels, historiography, Jesus Christ, resurrection, synoptics)
March 2 - On the general skepticism about ancient miracle reports (apologetics, C.S. Lewis, historiography, Jesus Christ, miracle, naturalism, resurrection, skepticism)
March 1 - Crazy Review #2 and another radio interview (Atheist Missionary, Biblica, Drew Marshall, You're not as crazy as I think)
March 1 - Gaddafi: The Movie (Christopher Nolan, Gaddafi: The Movie, Gene Simmons, Muammar Gaddafi)
February 28 - Artists United Against Hollywood Whores (Artists united against Apartheid, Beyonce, Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Mariah Carey, Muammar Gadhafi, Nelly Furtado, Sun City, Usher)
February 28 - Car salesmen do it. Lawyers too. And politicians. And also academics. (bullshit, Harry Frankfurt, lying, Mustang, truth)
February 26 - Revelation 5:9 and Inclusive Salvation (exclusivism, inclusivism, mission, salvation, soteriology)
February 26 - Why the sheep of Matthew 25 is circular (circularity, discipleship, Gospel of Matthew, Jesus, sheep and goats)
February 25 - When is chocolate not chocolate, and when is love not love? (Calvinism, divine love, election, omnibenevolence, Paul Manata, providence, Reformed theology, reprobation, William Shedd)
February 24 - The skeptic meets the demon (abduction, demonic oppression, inference to the best explanation, naturalism, supernaturalism)
February 23 - Awake in Japan: A first-person account of demonic oppression (demonic oppression, demonic possession, REM atonia, sleep paralysis, supernaturalism)
February 22 - God’s (arbitrary?) love revisited (arminianism, Calvinism, election, omnibenevolence, providence, Reformed theology)
February 21 - Good Lovin’ Revisited: A Footnote to Calvin and the Rascals (Calvinism, damnation, divine glory, election, God, Reformed, reprobation, Sophie's choice)
February 21 - Don’t you want your baby to feel alright? John Calvin meets the Rascals (Calvinism, election, God, love, omnibenevolence, Paul Manata, providence, Reformed theology)
February 20 - Why God might save a Chinese over a German (arminianism, Calvinism, divine love, election, omnibenevolence, providence, Reformed theology)
February 20 - Mom’s wooden spoon and God’s arbitrary love (Calvinism, election, love, omnibenevolence, providence, Reformed theology)
February 19 - How Calvinism decimates the divine love (Calvinism, election, God, love, omnibenevolence, providence)
February 19 - How many Calvinists understand Reformed theology? (Calvinism, Mark Driscoll, Reformed theology, Tim Challies)
February 19 - Happy with your mother in hell? (Faith lacking understanding, hell, Robert Ingersoll)
February 19 - One Crazy radio interview
February 18 - Why I wouldn’t buy a serial killer’s house (ghosts, H.H, haunted house, Holmes, rationality, reasoning, serial killer)
February 18 - Calvinism and the ice cream man (Calvinism, election, omnibenevolence, providence)
February 17 - The Case of Dr. Maximus Amore (arminianism, Calvinism, determinism, moral evil, omnibenevolence, problem of evil, providence)
February 17 - Shootin’ the bull at Princeton
February 17 - Is God the ultimate utilitarian? (Calvinism, election, providence, utilitarianism)
February 16 - Oh heaven, why art thou so boring? (eschatology, heaven, hell, new creation)
February 15 - The great implausibility of Calvinistic damnation (Part 1) (Calvinism, election, hell, reprobation, Tim Challies)
February 14 - Would you buy a serial killer’s house? (rationality, real estate, serial killer)
February 14 - How exclusive should Christianity be? (age of accountability, damnation, evangelism, exclusivism, inclusivism, missions, salvation, soteriology)
February 13 - Hopeful Universalism and the Lottery Illustration (Harry Potter, hell, salvation, universalism)
February 12 - How to confound Christians with bad arguments: #3 Security Blanket Gambit (apologetics, atheism, humanism, Ludwig Feuerback, projection theory of religion, Sigmund Freud)
February 12 - Rock stars finding God in church (but not like you think) (Burton Cummings, mysterium fascinans, mysterium tremendum, numinous, Rudolf Otto, sense of the holy)
February 11 - The first Crazy review (Debunking Christianity, John Loftus, John W. Loftus, You're not as crazy as I think)
February 11 - How to confound Christians with bad arguments: #2 The Indistinguishable Argument (atheism, divine hiddenness, skepticism, The atheist missionary, theism)
February 10 - Welcoming an Atheist to the Worldview Interrogation Room (atheism, epistemology, natural law, naturalism, science, worldview)
February 10 - Six Feet Under Before Your Time: A Review of “Buried” (Buried, Edgar Allen Poe, Rodrigo Cortes, Ryan Reynolds, The Cask of Amontillado)
February 9 - Does universalism have a chance in hell of being true? (arminianism, Calvinism, salvation, soteriology, theology, universalism)
February 8 - Universalism isn’t a four letter word (hell, Robin Parry, salvation, The Evangelical Universalist, universalism)
February 8 - I am going to prison (grace, prison)
February 7 - How to confound Christians with bad arguments: #1 Compare Santa to Jesus (Jesus Christ, Santa Claus)
February 6 - Will there be free will in heaven? (compatibilism, free will, heaven, incompatibilism, libertarianism)
February 6 - Committing moral horrors in God’s name revisited (yet again) (Abraham, defeater, human sacrifice, justification, Matthew Flannagan, warrant)
February 6 - Atheists without anger (Andre Comte-Sponville, atheism, The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality)
February 5 - Being completely objective about your worldview (as if that were possible) (agnosticism, John Loftus, justification, outsider test of faith, rationality, worldview)
February 4 - Twelve minutes, two films, all sorts of big ideas (Erez Tadmor, human nature, Offside, sin, Strangers)
February 3 - One Lost Penguin: A Meditation on Werner Herzog’s “Encounters at the End of the World” (atheism, Encounters at the End of the World, existentialism, nihilism, Werner Herzog)
February 2 - One Crazy Update (You're not as crazy as I think)
February 1 - On not being a jerk about it (doctrine, orthodoxy, sanctification)
February 1 - Inane Observation Tuesday
January 31 - How much are your principles worth? Lessons from Morgan Spurlock (advertising revenue, Morgan Spurlock)
January 30 - Okay smart guy, who designed the designer? (atheism, cosmic fine-tuning, George Smith, intelligent design)
January 29 - Misery loves company, especially more miserable company (contrast effect, Edmonton, original sin, Siberia, winter, Yakutsk)
January 27 - Signature in the Cell: Monologue on the Prologue (evolution, intelligent design, science, Steve Meyer)
January 27 - How to worship yourself: Lessons from Sheila Larson and Van Halen (Habits of the Heart, individualism, OU812, religion, Robert Bellah, Van Halen)
January 26 - Keep your eye on those “so called” Christians down the block (Anglicanism, comprehension, doctrine, fundamentalism, liberalism, sectarianism)
January 25 - Abraham, Isaac and a big knife. Like, wassup with that? (Abraham, hermeneutics, Old Testament ethics, sacrifice)
January 25 - The mutilation of Isaac (Abraham, faith, human sacrifice, Matthew Flannagan, Old Testament ethics)
January 24 - Losers who promote their own books on their blogs (dialogue, hypocrisy, Jesus, John Loftus, open society, You're not as crazy as I think)
January 24 - Michael Douglas on the upside of cancer (cancer, God, Michael Douglas, problem of evil, theodicy)
January 23 - Teach your children well (and don’t mutiliate their corpses) (Abraham, Evangelical Philosophical Society, human sacrifice, Matt Flannagan, Old Testament ethics)
January 22 - Who gets to be Brad Pitt and why? (divine right, God, problem of evil, providence)
January 21 - Scott Clifton on Morality (atheism, morality, naturalism, Scott Clifton, teleology, theism)
January 21 - Write us a post you’re the bloggin’ man (anthropology, dualism, materialism, soul)
January 20 - “To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained.” (Colin McGinn, epistemology, evidence, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, John Jefferson Davis, rationality, reason)
January 19 - On taking an objective approach to inexplicable events (apologetics, naturalism, OBEs, out of body experiences, supernatural, worldview)
January 18 - Reflections on Ricky Gervais, satire and sarcasm (Extras, Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais, sarcasm, satire)
January 17 - “The wings of a butterfly are meant to avoid” … and other design language (methodological naturalism, nature, teleology)
January 16 - If you declare with your mouth … and believe in your heart (belief, exclusivism, inclusivism, Romans, salvation, soteriology)
January 15 - The intelligent design of symmetry (argument from design, intelligent design, symmetry)
January 15 - Intelligent Design according to Charlotte’s Web (argument from design, Charlotte's Web, intelligent design)
January 14 - I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, who cares if people like me? (Calvinism, grace, problem of evil, Reformed Christianity, Triablogue)
January 14 - Indoctrination in Focus on the Family’s “The Truth Project” (Focus on the Family, indoctrination, propaganda, The Truth Project, worldview)
January 14 - Dr. Z meets Dustin (agnosticism, atheism, problem of evil, theism)
January 13 - Dr. Z: A Brief Addendum (agnosticism, atheism, doubt, faith, problem of evil, Romans 1, theism)
January 13 - The night Dr. Z became an agnostic (agnosticism, atheism, general revelation, natural theology, Romans 1, theism)
January 13 - For since the creation of the world: On the wickedness of atheism (atheism, general revelation, natural theology, rationality, Romans 1, sin, theism)
January 12 - Doubters for Jesus (belief, doubt, faith)
January 11 - Is “biblical Christianity” the only rational worldview? (And is atheism wicked?) (atheism, biblical worldview, Christianity, rationality, reason)
January 10 - The Wikipediazation of the World (democracy, internet, wikipedia)
January 10 - God and the Goddish Good (atheism, God, moral objectivism, morality, naturalism)
January 8 - “Signature in the Cell”: The Review Begins (albeit very modestly) (evolution, intelligent design, Stephen C. Meyer)
January 7 - “True Grit” is truly great … but what’s with the snakes? (Coen Brothers, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, retributive justice, True Grit)
January 7 - Do we need God to explain the wild success of the hula hoop? (divine action, naturalism, providence, religious diversity)
January 5 - Ockham again? (atheism, idealism, naturalism, Ockham's razor, Stephen Maitzen, theism)
January 4 - You believe in god because you had a bad father (or a good father, or no father) (atheism, induction, Ludwig Feuerbach, Paul Vitz, projection theory of religion, Sigmund Freud, skepticism)
January 4 - The day the devil went to seminary and other bizarre things (doctrine, inclusivism, salvation, soteriology)
January 1 - Vaccines and the beliefs of those who receive them (argument from divine hiddenness, inclusivism, reductio ad absurdum, salvation)

2010

December 31 - Ad Maitzen: On “What must I believe to be saved?” (atheism, Christianity, defeater, divine hiddenness, naturalism, Stephen Maitzen)
December 30 - Religious demographics and divine hiddenness (divine hiddenness, Stephen Maitzen)
December 29 - A preliminary look at the argument from divine hiddenness (divine hiddenness, Stephen Maitzen)
December 28 - Psychiatric Notes on a 21st Century Ezekiel (Ezekiel, Old Testament prophet, prophecy)
December 26 - A few laughs before you go to hell (atheism, Christianity, hell)
December 25 - Christmas music from sleigh rides to stone cold tombs (Christmas music, Ella Fitzgerald)
December 25 - Who could deconvert you?
December 24 - Randal’s Christmas Eve Devotional (christmas; vocation; Martin Luther)
December 24 - What if John Loftus converts me to atheism? (atheism, conversation, dogmatism, John Loftus, You're not as crazy as I think)
December 23 - God or Godless? (John Loftus; God or Godless; atheism; Christianity; debate)
December 19 - Flying Spaghetti Monsters and Martha Stewart (Martha Stewart; ImClone; intelligent design; design inference)
December 18 - Is Richard Dawkins an example of intelligent design? (Richard Dawkins; intelligent design; methodological naturalism; James Dobson)
December 14 - A Prolegomenon to reviewing Intelligent Design books (climate change, intelligent design, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer)
December 8 - The problem of meticulously cruel evil (problem of evil, theodicy)
December 7 - I think, therefore I am (I think) (certainty, cogito ergo sum, Descartes, epistemology, fallibilism)
December 4 - Doing your belief inventory (or how not to be a fundamentalist) (epistemology, evidentialism, fundamentalism, John Locke, rationality)
December 3 - Two Dead People: A Reflection on “At the Death House Door” (At the death house door; capital punishment; chaplaincy;)
December 3 - Possible, Plausible, or Probable Points or Special-Pleading? (defense, John Loftus, natural evil, problem of evil, Robert Gressis, theodicy)
December 2 - John Loftus on natural evil, theodicy and defense (John Loftus; The Christian Delusion; theodicy; problem of evil; animal suffering)
November 30 - The intrinsic value in learning to be good (free will defense, greater goods, moral evil, natural evil, problem of evil, theodicy)
November 29 - Would you rather be a bacterium? A rejoinder to the problem of evil (moral evil, natural evil, problem of evil, providence, theodicy)
November 28 - Could God command evil for a greater good? (child sacrifice, greater goods, problem of evil, providence, theodicy)
November 28 - Meditation on yellow toilet water (bottled water, public water supply)
November 28 - Randal’s Saturday evening movie recommendation: Requiem (demon possession, Requiem, Sandra Hüller, The Exorcism of Emily Rose)
November 27 - An argument for Christian meatatarians to consider (animal rights, eschatology, meatatarian, veganism, vegetarianism)
November 26 - Is eating turkey morally justified? (abolitionist approach, animals rights, Gary Francione, Peter Singer)
November 25 - Did God raise up Bin Laden? (9/11, Clay Jones, divine judgment, genocide, Osama Bin Laden, religious violence)
November 25 - Three theses on devotional child killing (Dena Schlosser, divine command, ethics, genocide, herem, moral epistemology, natural law)
November 24 - I want to know what evil is (divine command, ethics, evil, moral skepticism, moral virtue, morality)
November 23 - The day God (didn’t) command a father to kill his child (divine command, human sacrifice, problem of evil)
November 23 - An update in the wake of Atlanta (plus a bit on rape and child killing) (Bible, ETS, genocide, herem, Matthew Flannagan, murder, Paul Copan, rape, Richard Hess, SBL)
November 17 - T-Rex dung as a problem for Christians (John Loftus, natural evil, The Christian Delusion, theodicy, Tyrannosaurus Rex)
November 17 - What does the form of the good look like? (Captain Marvel, ethics, form of the good, God, morality, platonism)
November 16 - Georgia on my mind (ETS, Matthew Flanagan, Paul Copan, Richard Hess, SBL)
November 16 - Hector Avalos puts Yahweh in the dock (or tries to) (Hebrew Scriptures, Hector Avalos, Old Testament, The Christian Delusion, Yahweh)
November 15 - Caption contest (James Tracy, Randal Rauser)
November 14 - Material consumption as the meaning of life (or not) (consumerism, materialism, Peter Egan, Road & Track)
November 14 - My readers are completely full of it (moxie)
November 14 - Randal’s Saturday evening movie recommendation: Frailty (Bill Paxton, Frailty)
November 13 - Grandpa drowns. Humanity flourishes (anatheist.net, ethics, human flourishing, morality, utilitarianism)
November 13 - Vomit flavored jelly beans and other offenses to the natural order (aesthetics, ethics, Jelly Belly, morality, naturalism, relativism, taste)
November 12 - I wanna kill myself … and you too (atheism, Columbine, Conversational Atheist, Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, ethics, God, morality, naturalism, Sam Harris)
November 11 - The Beatitudes and Banksy on Remembrance / Veterans Day (Banksy, Beatitudes, peace, Remembrance Day, Veterans Day, war)
November 11 - How do you critique infant sodomy to a moral skeptic? (atheism, ethics, Gary Ridgeway, God, moral relativism, moral skepticism, morality, naturalism)
November 10 - How to fixate on a tennis ball (apologetics, atheism, debate, ethics, mere Christianity, morality, naturalism)
November 10 - Morality, the Divine Right of Kings, and Democracy (atheism, ethics, morality, naturalism, Old Testament, theism)
November 9 - Paranormal Activity 2 and Moral Explanation (atheism, ethics, morality, naturalism, Paranormal Activity 2)
November 9 - Gingerbread lattes and Gary Ridgeway (atheism, ethics, moral objectivism, morality, naturalism, Sam Harris)
November 7 - On being skeptical of the skeptics (evil, moral objectivism, morality, rape, Rwanda, synthetic a priori)
November 7 - On the pap people say when other people die (April Wine, comfort words, death, Jim Clench, metaphysics)
November 6 - Surely you can’t be serious! (atheism, deconstructionism, ethics, moral objectivism, morality, naturalism, relativism)
November 5 - Nancy Sinatra’s boots were made for walkin’, but what was she made for? (atheism, dysteleology, meaning, Nancy Sinatra, naturalism, purpose, teleology)
November 4 - Open house at Randalrauser.com
November 3 - Why Sam Harris should not go into retail (atheism, ethics, meta-ethics, naturalism, Sam Harris)
November 3 - Sam Harris’ moral claims refuted, rebutted, and rejected (atheism, ethical objectivism, ethics, naturalism, Sam Harris)
November 2 - A cannibalistic serial killer enters retirement (ethical objectivism, ethics, meaning, problem of evil, teleology)
November 2 - Better than Antiques Road Show (Antiqes Road Show, Goodwill)
November 1 - The Sam Harris Sinkhole (atheism, ethics, God, meta-ethics, morality, relativism, Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape, theism)
October 31 - Torture Porn and Human Nature: An All Hallow’s Eve Meditation (evil, I spit on your grave, Roger Ebert, Saw 3-D, The Human Centipede, torture porn)
October 31 - Rape as objectively evil (evil, genocide, morality, rape, Romeo Dallaire, Rwanda, Sam Harris)
October 30 - Can rape be objectively wrong? (atheism, ethics, moral objectivism, moral perception, naturalism, problem of evil)
October 30 - Mens Paired Figure Skating and Atheism (angels, atheism, naturalism, supernatural, worldview)
October 29 - When the scientific method comes to town (atheism, epistemology, naturalism, scientific method)
October 28 - Atheists in natural glass houses (agent causation, atheism, event causation, free will, libertarian, naturalism, worldview)
October 27 - From typing on a keyboard to the soul (free will, libertarianism, naturalism, soul, substance dualism)
October 27 - Extraordinary cars require extraordinary acceleration (atheism, epistemology, evidentialism, justification, naturalism, rationality, skepticism)
October 26 - Powerpoint Slides
October 26 - Naturalism and the ole’ swimming hole (agnosticism, atheism, Christianity, evidence, naturalism)
October 25 - When atheists grow up and become naturalists (anatheist.net, atheism, epistemology, faith, James Tracy, naturalism, rationality, theism)
October 24 - The Denigration of Civil Discourse: More lessons from John Loftus (civil discourse, John Loftus, rhetoric, You're not as crazy as I think)
October 23 - How to avoid the question: Lessons from Loftus (Bible, John Loftus, problem of evil, revelation, skepticism, theodicy)
October 21 - Facing my mortality in the elevator (Cover of the Rolling Stone, Dr. Hook)
October 21 - What John Loftus has is a failure to communicate (Bible, Dalton Trumbo, John Loftus, Johnny Got his Gun, problem of divine hiddenness, problem of evil, Stephen Crane, The Christian Delusion, The Red Badge of Courage)
October 19 - Freud and “The Christian Delusion” (apologetics, atheism, God, John Loftus, The Christian Delusion, theism)
October 18 - How to hate your enemies: Lessons from the Psalms (Part 4) (Carolyn Sharp, imprecatory psalms, irony, problem of evil, Psalm 137, psalms)
October 16 - How to hate your enemies: Lessons from the Psalms (Part 3) (Bible, C.S. Lewis, Dostoevsky, imprecatory psalms, inspiration, psalms)
October 13 - How to hate your enemies: Lessons from the Psalms (Part 2) (Bible, god-breathed, imprecatory psalms, inspiration, John Piper, psalms)
October 10 - The Gap changes its logo: Is nothing sacred? (consumer culture, consumerism, The Gap)
October 9 - How to hate your enemies: Lessons from the Psalms (Part 1) (evangelical, imprecatory psalms, inspiration, maledictory psalms, psalms, scripture)
October 5 - Scientists who praise the universe (Chet Raymo, E.O. WIlson, Henry David Thoreau, nature worship, pantheism, universe)
September 30 - Randal’s apologetics debate book
September 30 - Carl Sagan’s old time religion (agnosticism, atheism, Carl Sagan, deism, God, meaning, religion, SETI)
September 27 - You’re not special because the universe is really, really big (Aldebaran, Carl Sagan, God, image of God, Milky Way, stars)
September 23 - Everybody’s gotta god (Bertrand Russell, Democritus, divine, God, religion, Roy Clouser, theism)
September 22 - Say, whatever became of ole’ whatshisname? (apologetics, EPS, Paul Copan, SBL, Tentative Apologist)
September 10 - Why Richard Dawkins can’t be the world’s leading atheist (atheism, debate, God, Richard Dawkins, theism, William Lane Craig)
September 7 - How to burn a Qur’an (and get CNN to report it) (9-11, Florida, Islam, Qur'an)

2009

September 28 - “Why did Missy Die? God, Evil and The Shack”
June 18 - Finding God in the Shack Interview-Part 2
June 18 - Finding God in the Shack Interview-Part 1
March 8 - Christian Book Expo – 2009
March 1 - The Bridge-Book Signing

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