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2017 Archives

December 2017

  • 30: Can an atheistic worldview support the concept of the holy or sacred? (20)
  • 28: Hellrazed? A Review (1)
  • 26: Does atheism require more faith than Christian theism? (87)
  • 24: Debating the Virgin Birth: A Christian/Atheist Conversation (5)
  • 23: Have aliens visited earth? Is the idea worth taking seriously? A response to Sean Carroll (4)
  • 22: Is belief in God like belief in Santa Claus? (21)
  • 20: Pew Sitting as Performance (7)
  • 19: How to argue without seeming like a crazy person (0)
  • 19: No true Christian would subjugate and oppress other faiths (4)
  • 18: Is the virgin birth an essential doctrine? (14)
  • 17: Best of Enemies: A Review (2)
  • 16: Spending a Day at Frank’s House: A Review of Letter to Lucy (0)
  • 15: Transgender Washrooms or Climate Change? (22)
  • 14: My New Video Discussing Divine Transcendence (1)
  • 13: Alarmist evangelical apologetics and the so-called post-truth world (2)
  • 12: The so-called War on Christmas should be relabelled the War on Christendom (9)
  • 11: Conservative Christians Who Pine for Christendom (3)
  • 09: Is it always wrong for a Christian to buy a brand new $300,000 Ferrari? (11)
  • 08: Is it time for a female Jesus? (6)
  • 06: Conservative Christian Bakers, Gay Cakes, and Beyond… (36)
  • 06: Making Sense of Gospel and Grace (10 Minute Interview) (1)
  • 05: Credibility, Apologetics, and the Ravi Zacharias Case (33)
  • 03: Debriefing the Mormon vs. Christian Debate on Unbelievable (17)
  • 02: There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to commit (9)
  • 01: Liars for Atheism? If only… (15)
  • 01: Natural Evil and Young Earth Creationism (6)

November 2017

  • 29: Hellrazed? The Book! (1)
  • 28: The Church as Tabasco Sauce (3)
  • 27: Reflections on Astrophysics and Young Earth Creationism (1)
  • 24: 100. Evolution and Christian Faith: A Conversation with Denis Lamoureux (3)
  • 23: The Ten Minute What’s So Confusing About Grace? Interview (1)
  • 22: In Search of Salvation video (0)
  • 22: Apologetics: Why do good apologetic arguments produce bad results? (0)
  • 22: Do all adherents to non-Christian religions go to hell? (9)
  • 20: Is it wrong for Christians to watch films containing graphic sexual content? (16)
  • 19: Why do good apologetic arguments produce bad results? (26)
  • 17: Bad Language: A Quick Reply to Michael Brown (17)
  • 17: Why I’m grateful for open theism (even though I’m not an open theist) (7)
  • 16: Can you be prolife and vote for a prochoice politician? (27)
  • 14: In Search of Salvation (10)
  • 11: Michael Brown defends accused pedophile Roy Moore and I respond (12)
  • 11: My Exchange with a Christian Defender of Roy Moore (11)
  • 10: What is the most difficult Christian doctrine to defend? (28)
  • 09: 99. How do you hear the voice of God? (14)
  • 06: Does Christianity need a resurrected Jesus? (15)
  • 04: If God wants us to be saved, why is grace so confusing? (17)
  • 01: 98. That All May Be One: An Ecumenical Conversation for Reformation Day (4)

October 2017

  • 31: Ray Comfort’s Fruity Banana Argument for God’s Existence (12)
  • 30: On the claim that believing God exists of necessity is “defining God into existence” (17)
  • 30: An Atheist Defining Theism: The Curious Case of Sean Carroll (20)
  • 28: New Atheism as a failed exercise in incivility and anti-intellectualism (22)
  • 26: Inerrancy: Still Hazy After All These Years (63)
  • 25: The Humility of True Leaders (2)
  • 22: When Christian fundamentalism is at its ugliest (18)
  • 20: The Storymen Podcast on What’s So Confusing About Grace? (0)
  • 17: Which Conversations Will You Sponsor? (10)
  • 17: If you don’t debate young earth creationists, are you stifling the debate? (22)
  • 16: The Top Five Reasons I didn’t like the Young Earth Creationist on “Unbelievable” (31)
  • 15: Conservative Christians find sex and violence offensive. But what about mediocrity? (18)
  • 13: 97. Redemption and Omar Khadr (3)
  • 12: Thoughts and Prayers and the Atheist’s Scorn (16)
  • 10: I’m Thankful for Old Friends (3)
  • 08: Why is it that folks who call themselves “free thinkers” tend to think alike? (73)
  • 08: Want to control guns? Change people’s minds (8)
  • 05: On Fundamentalism: The Best Thing Alvin Plantinga Ever Wrote (15)
  • 03: Pat Robertson identifies lack of respect for Trump as catalyst for Las Vegas Massacre (18)
  • 03: Make America Godly Again? (20)
  • 02: What is the case for citizens being able to access (semi) automatic weaponry? (76)
  • 02: Would The Message work in an exorcism? (5)

September 2017

  • 30: Promiscuous Gay People (25)
  • 29: Help! Let’s kick cancer’s butt together (22)
  • 28: Alvin Plantinga’s Surprisingly Deflationary Take on his own Ontological Argument (18)
  • 26: The Provincial Atheist (13)
  • 25: A “Confusing” Dialogue with Dale Tuggy … and more (3)
  • 24: Teetotalism Reconsidered (11)
  • 22: God, Natural Disasters, and My Next Book (14)
  • 21: Gender-neutral Pronouns in Grade 5 (15)
  • 20: Apologetics without the hardcore bit (0)
  • 19: My Book What’s So Confusing About Grace? is FREE Today (11)
  • 18: Do atheists get their moral values from humanism? (30)
  • 18: Is it wrong for First Nations people to refer to non-indigenous people as “settlers”? (5)
  • 17: My Biggest … and Most Frustrating Publishing Success (6)
  • 17: What is wrong with this Ancestry DNA ad? (0)
  • 11: Good Christian song. Bad theology (16)
  • 11: What’s wrong with this atheist meme? (13)
  • 08: God and the Weather Revisited (8)
  • 06: Confusing Grace: The Unfundamentalist Christians Review (12)
  • 05: Because Jesus would build a wall, that’s why! (25)
  • 04: How inhumane would it be to end DACA? (14)
  • 03: Tooting my own horn again… (0)
  • 02: What is the Trinity? A Review (54)
  • 01: Ashamed of Jesus? Go to hell (0)

August 2017

  • 31: Two New Reviews for What’s So Confusing About Grace? (0)
  • 30: All Saints: A Christian movie for non-fundamentalists (3)
  • 30: The “Nashville Statement”: Three Problems with the Preamble (14)
  • 29: The latest review of What’s So Confusing About Grace? (5)
  • 29: “I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth…” Could God be punishing Texas? (13)
  • 27: On Keeping a Closed Mind: Lessons from The Friendly Atheist (4)
  • 25: Is it technically morally wrong to proselytize for something other than the true religion? (4)
  • 24: Evangelicalism, Academic Freedom, and Robert Gagnon (9)
  • 23: What’s So Confusing About Grace? My Interview with Bob Dutko (0)
  • 23: Effective Altruism and the Christian: A Conversation with Joshua Parikh (0)
  • 22: Cross Abuse: One reason you might not want to work for a Christian organization (6)
  • 20: Back When Kids Did Things: Lamenting the time before smartphones (10)
  • 19: Confused About Grace? Read my new interview with myself (0)
  • 18: A Case Where I Spend WAY TOO MUCH Time Analyzing a Snide Atheist Meme (6)
  • 16: Against Trump’s Absurd Moral Equivalence Thesis (19)
  • 15: What Christians (and everyone else) can learn from Peter Singer: A Review of The Most Good You Can Do (6)
  • 11: Read Chapter 14 of What’s So Confusing About Grace? and find out how to be damned by a cookie (1)
  • 10: Edward Babinski reviews Is the Atheist My Neighbor? (1)
  • 10: “A fundamentalist radical Christian is just as misguided and frightening as a fundamentalist radical Muslim.” Discuss (31)
  • 09: Genuine Inquiry vs. Partisan Advocacy: A Couple Comments (1)
  • 08: The Confusing Revelation Objection to Christianity (15)
  • 05: If this is God’s Word, why isn’t it easier to understand? (10)
  • 04: Review Copies of What’s So Confusing About Grace? are Now Available (1)
  • 01: The Latest Review for What’s So Confusing About Grace? (1)
  • 01: In a Heartbeat: Changing Attitudes among Christians Toward Same Sex Attraction (3)

July 2017

  • 31: The Book that’s Bringing People Together (7)
  • 30: Saved from Birth? (1)
  • 30: For the umpteenth time, certainty is not the problem (9)
  • 29: A Review of The Moral Arc Part 3: From Absurdities to Atrocities (41)
  • 28: The Kindle Version of What’s So Confusing About Grace? is Now Available (2)
  • 27: The First Review for What’s So Confusing About Grace? (5)
  • 26: Two Days of Right Wing Talk Radio and I’m Depressed (55)
  • 26: My New Book is now Available in Canada (2)
  • 24: What’s So Confusing About Grace? The Endorsements (7)
  • 22: Launching My New Website ConfusedAboutGrace.Com (7)
  • 20: What’s So Confusing About Grace? My New Book has Arrived! (12)
  • 20: A Review of The Moral Arc Part 2: Reason as Rhetoric (6)
  • 18: This is how strange a free market approach to healthcare looks to a Canadian like me (29)
  • 17: A Review of The Moral Arc Part 1: Abortion (29)
  • 15: Atheists who celebrate intellectual regression (25)
  • 13: Christian Bookstores, Eugene Peterson, and Same Sex Marriage (11)
  • 13: Ode to the Corner Store (5)
  • 12: The Title of My New Book (9)
  • 08: Unveiling My New Press Imprint (9)
  • 07: Trump in the light of history: A review of On Tyranny (61)
  • 04: Can we all get along? (12)
  • 03: I intended to write this article. So much the worse for reductionism. (152)

June 2017

  • 30: Today I Think of Bob Jyono (38)
  • 28: The Most Bizarre Rejoinder I Ever Heard From a Christian Fundamentalist (18)
  • 26: False Witness, Lies, Delusions, and Bullshit … and Why the Difference Matters (12)
  • 24: Holy Hilarity: A Funny Study of Genesis: A Review (17)
  • 24: Islamophobia? Secular Bernie Sanders meets the Conservative Evangelical (52)
  • 22: Gnu Atheism? Wildebeest and the Problem of Natural Evil (103)
  • 20: An Update on My Next Book (10)
  • 18: The Power of the Law of Reciprocity (11)
  • 14: Transgender at the Spa? The Culture War Heats Up (24)
  • 13: How to make yourself feel smarter (15)
  • 11: The Birth of a Nation: A Powerful but Flawed Film (2)
  • 09: Evangelicals, Trump, and the Death of Contrition (14)
  • 07: Learning to Speak in Tongues: A Pentecost Sermon (14)
  • 07: Should you get a Philosophy PhD? (16)
  • 06: Worldviews and “Defending the Truth” (0)

May 2017

  • 31: Special Pleading or Therapy? The J. Warner Wallace Dilemma (46)
  • 29: From Aliens to Meh: A Review of Alien: Covenant (15)
  • 29: Is it wrong for Christians to troll Trump? (12)
  • 27: Do ID theorists have an agenda? And does it matter if they do? (30)
  • 25: Intelligent Design Explanations are not Science Stoppers (48)
  • 24: Cultural Relativism: at least they meant well (40)
  • 22: What did Jesus believe about Noah and Lot’s wife? A response to Justin Schieber (42)
  • 20: Unbelievable: Justin Brierley’s Book is Landing! (7)
  • 18: The Devil Made Him Do It? A look at the conservative Christian defense of Trump (11)
  • 16: Exercises in Missing the Point: A Response to Counter Apologist’s Scorched Earth Review (24)
  • 14: Let’s Talk About Sex … and Porn (45)
  • 11: Can divine wrath explain divinely commanded genocide? (39)
  • 10: Three Ways Atheists Try to Rise Above the Hoi Polloi (48)
  • 09: My Eyes are Mirrors: A reflection on my dog staring out the window (6)
  • 07: Impervious to Reason? On the rhetoric of atheistic fundamentalism (25)
  • 07: Did Stephen Colbert Go Too Far? (16)
  • 05: Faith, Story, and The Shack Controversy (0)
  • 05: Conservative evangelicals think Donald Trump is the next Constantine (20)
  • 01: Does Faith Make Sense? A Sermon on Christianity and Evidence (18)

April 2017

  • 30: A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing, or the biggest problem with popular Christian apologetics (41)
  • 29: Who is Eric Schneider and why is he defaming Bruxy Cavey? (9)
  • 28: Charity and Confession: The case of Bruxy Cavey and Tyndale Seminary (33)
  • 26: Universalism, Evangelicalism, and The Shack (9)
  • 26: An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a (Coffee) Bar: The Brew Podcast (0)
  • 25: Universalism for Evangelicals? A Review of Heaven’s Doors (15)
  • 23: Teaching the Controversy on Earth Day? (13)
  • 21: Strange Revelations I’ve Received in the Mail (Part 2) (16)
  • 21: Strange Revelations I’ve Received in the Mail (Part 1) (15)
  • 14: And Now for Something Completely Different: The Outline of My New Book (12)
  • 11: What are Human Rights Based On? A Response to Andy Bannister (46)
  • 08: The Bible as God’s Anthology (12)
  • 07: How I’ll Know When I’m Ready For Heaven (Hint: it has to do with dog turds) (4)
  • 05: This is Not Normal: The Importance of Satire in the Age of Donald Trump (15)
  • 01: Will Jesus Return in 1988? (16)

March 2017

  • 31: To Shun or Not to Shun: That is the Question (7)
  • 29: How the atheist rhetoric of “reason” undermines reason (50)
  • 28: The Conditional Premiss of the Moral Argument – Peoples, Rauser, Hannestad, Moore (0)
  • 28: {UN}APOLOGETIC Interview (0)
  • 28: Evangelical and Atheist Communities: Closer than you might think (4)
  • 25: The Moral Argument: A Discussion and Debate (3)
  • 23: Does God exploit individuals for the benefit of others? (65)
  • 22: Apologetic Dialogue Today: A Discussion on The Brew Podcast (2)
  • 21: Atheism in Arizona: Debriefing the Book Tour (7)
  • 17: On accusing a brother or sister in Christ of heresy (22)
  • 16: Justin Schieber and Randal Rauser at Sherwood Park Alliance Church (1)
  • 15: Rauser v. Schieber-The 2017 Debate (10)
  • 14: An Atheist and a Christian in Church (0)
  • 13: Should people have the freedom not to have medical coverage? (28)
  • 09: “That’s Not Biblical”: Three Scary Words for any Evangelical to Hear (14)
  • 06: C.A.N.C.E.R. (3)
  • 06: An Atheist and a Christian Debate and then Walk into Two Churches This Weekend! (2)
  • 05: Doing right because … it feels good? (15)
  • 03: To See or Not to See The Shack Movie: That is the Question (20)
  • 02: An Atheist and a Christian Do a Ten Minute Interview (2)
  • 01: Would you advise an abused wife to divorce her husband? (21)
  • 01: An Invitation to My Edmonton Debate/Dialogue with Justin Schieber (2)

February 2017

  • 27: The Hiddenness of God: Thoughts on the Giunta-Schieber Debate (15)
  • 24: A Christian/Atheist Dialogue in Church (3)
  • 24: Today I finished the penultimate draft of my next book (6)
  • 21: On Praying for Milo (10)
  • 20: Being the Right Kind of Fool for Christ Ain’t Easy (7)
  • 18: Even if theism may be rationally justified, can the same be said of a specific religion? (56)
  • 14: Gotcha! The Worst Part of Debates (37)
  • 11: Would God Necessarily Create Perfect Creatures? The Rauser/Schieber Debate (21)
  • 08: How Skeptical Theism Justifies Religious Doubt: A Response to Rauser (33)
  • 07: An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Book Tour (sort of) (1)
  • 06: Contributing to a new political blog (11)
  • 03: The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: A Review (36)

January 2017

  • 31: Transgender Boy Scouts: A Crazy Idea? (26)
  • 30: Skeptical Theism and Skepticism Simpliciter: A Response to Jason Thibodeau (64)
  • 26: Elective abortion as the right to kill your children (83)
  • 24: Responding to Four Popular Arguments for Atheism (6)
  • 24: If it’s okay for God to allow horrors, then we don’t know much about God (Part 2) (10)
  • 22: If it’s okay for God to allow horrors, then we don’t know much about God (Part 1) (92)
  • 21: The Ethical Principle Behind #NotMyPresident (45)
  • 19: “You’re an atheist with respect to every other God. I just go one God further”: A Brief Reply (33)
  • 18: God, Evolution, and Creation: A Short Interview (9)
  • 16: Does the hostility of the universe toward life support atheism? (20)
  • 15: Faith That’s Not Blind: A Review (5)
  • 14: Does doctrinal agreement constitute evidence against God’s existence? (19)
  • 12: Some Unbelievable Reflections (10)
  • 10: Bad Atheist Memes: God, Sexuality, and Bacteria (53)
  • 10: Who are the Hollywood Elites? (19)
  • 09: I feel love. It’s about love: Still Alice as Theodicy (33)
  • 06: On Rejecting Expert Consensus: Don’t Blame Donald Trump (87)
  • 05: Enter to Win a Free Copy of An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar (2)
  • 05: Congratulations to Jeff Lowder for Posting the 80,000th Comment at My Blog! (4)
  • 04: Naturalism or Theism? A Review of The Lowder-Turek Debate (43)
  • 03: How to pick a church: Advice from Eugene Peterson (1)
  • 03: Do imperfect creatures count against God? (5)
  • 01: The Best Movies of 2016 You Probably Haven’t Heard Of (12)

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