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Christianity

Did Brian McLaren Stay Christian?

August 17, 2022 by Randal

In his new book Do I Stay Christian? Brian McLaren offers reasons to leave the faith and remain within it. In this video, I offer a reflection on the book and a consideration of the final question: Did Brian McLaren Stay Christian? ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Brian McLaren, Christianity, review

Does Atheism Inspire You? A Reflection on Last Chance U

April 5, 2021 by Randal

The first season of Last Chance U: Basketball just launched on Netflix a month ago. It is a spinoff of the familiar Last Chance U series which devotes each season to the football program of a junior college where struggling students are trying to make it. The setting is ripe for inspiration, drama, and disappointment: all the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Christianity, Last Chance U

Will Truth Win Out? My Interview with “When Belief Dies”

March 31, 2021 by Randal

Here is my recent podcast interview on the “When Belief Dies” podcast. This was a lot of fun: amiable, spirited, and probing the deep questions. You can also listen via Spotify, Apple or other platforms.   ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Christianity, interview, podcast, truth, When Belief Dies

Christianity Vindicated?: A Review of The Rational Faith Part 2

March 29, 2021 by Randal

Jason A. Crook. The Rational Faith: A Review of the Evidence for Christianity. 2020, 267 pp. If you have read the first installment of my review of Jason Crook’s new book The Rational Faith (for Part 1 see here) then you know that I got sidetracked by outlining my disagreement with the way Crook sets up […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Christianity, Jason Crook, review, The Rational Faith

Why a meaningful life is not the same thing as a life that does (or does not) go on forever

November 21, 2020 by Randal

Christians sometimes argue that life is only meaningful if it goes on forever. Atheists sometimes argue that life is only meaningful if it doesn’t go on forever. They’re both wrong.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: afterlife, atheism, Christianity, meaning

Can Stryper be heavy metal if they are Christian?

September 8, 2020 by Randal

Following the release of Stryper’s new album “Even the Devil Believes,” popular heavy metal website blabbermouth.net posted a review which praises the musicianship and musicality, but gives the album a poor review because of uplifting Christian lyrics that allegedly contradict the spirit of rock and roll. In this video, I offer my response.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christian music, Christianity, heavy metal, Stryper

My Debate with David Smalley on the Rationality of Christianity

August 18, 2020 by Randal

Today, I appeared on Modern Day Debate to debate David Smalley on whether a person can be rational to accept Christian belief:

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christianity, David Smalley, debate, epistemology, Modern Day Debate, rationality

Debating David Smalley on the Rationality of Christianity

August 3, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Christianity, David Smalley, epistemology, rationality

Having once been a Christian doesn’t mean you understand Christianity

May 8, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Christianity

The extraordinary claim that Christianity is irrational

March 12, 2020 by Randal

This happens a lot: atheists online tell me that my beliefs are “absurd” or (only slightly more charitably) that I’m “irrational”. Here is an example of an exchange with a gentleman named Steven Tiger. He begins by taking the view that Christianity is ridiculous. Then he modifies it to the view that it is irrational […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christianity, epistemology, irrationality, rationality, Steven Tiger

Should you be able to say when you wouldn’t be a Christian in order to be a Christian?

February 16, 2020 by Randal

This morning, I posted the following as a tweet: Atheists often challenge me by asking the conditions under which I would reject the Bible as God’s Word, or say that God isn’t perfectly good or conclude that Christianity isn’t true. The assumption is that if I don’t provide those conditions, the faith I now have […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Christianity, epistemology, falsification, skepticism

Muslims and Christians Pray to the Same God

February 4, 2020 by Randal

I’ve addressed this question before (on several occasions) but I thought this brief tweet I posted might be of interest to some to carry the conversation forward: Muslims & Christians both refer to the same being when they say “God”. If they weren’t, then they wouldn’t be disagreeing about whether that being is triune or […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christianity, Islam, linguistic reference, pluralism

On the Pseudo-Piety of Shutting Down Questioning By Asking Who Are You, O Man?

January 23, 2020 by Randal

This morning, I tweeted my old (2012) review of David Lamb’s book God Behaving Badly. The review includes an extensive critique of Lamb’s attempt to rationalize and baptize biblical violence. Not surprisingly, I received a pseudo-pious reply from some self-righteous fellow who actually had the temerity to begin with “Who are you, o man?”. Who are you, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christianity, fundamentalism, piety, questioning

Here’s a Thought: Why Don’t We Not Strawman Each Other?

January 13, 2020 by Randal

In my experience, atheists and Christians commonly strawman each other. For example, the atheist criticizing Christianity assumes Christianity includes a narrow exclusivism with eternal conscious torment so that, for example, the 10-year-old Jewish girl who dies in Auschwitz goes straight to hell. Such a view has nothing, per se, to do with Christianity. To be […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Christianity, strawman

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