I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (Part 1)
Does truth exist? Does God exist? Are miracles possible? Is the New Testament historically reliable? Is Christianity actually true? Dr. Frank Turek, coauthor of I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an...
View ArticleIt Should Never have Come to That Point
From our outgoing student president: I can still hear my youth pastor saying, “One in every three of you sitting in this room will walk away from church once you move to college.” I remember thinking...
View ArticleWhat is Ratio Christi?
by Adam Tucker, Ratio Christi Chapter Director at University of North Carolina Greensboro For those of you who don't know, Ratio Christi is a national organization that starts and runs student...
View ArticleThe Jesus Myth? A Response to Richard Carrier (Part 1)
On Feb. 21, 2013 I had the opportunity to hear Dr. Richard Carrier, popular author and internet atheist, for the second time at UNC Greensboro. The UNCG Atheists, Agnostics, and Skeptics club invited...
View ArticleThe Jesus Myth? A Response to Richard Carrier (Part 2)
In PART 1 of my response to Dr. Richard Carrier's Feb. 21, 2013 UNCG presentation about the Jesus who never really existed I discussed the materialistic/naturalistic/atheistic worldview through which...
View ArticleThe Jesus Myth? A Response to Richard Carrier (Part 3)
In PART 1 and PART 2 of my response to Dr. Richard Carrier's arguments that Jesus was a mythical figure we examined his claims of religious syncretism, the belief in a single God as evolving from...
View ArticleThe Jesus Myth? A Response to Richard Carrier (Part 4)
In our examination of Dr. Richard Carrier's presentation regarding a mythical Jesus we've looked his claims of Christianity evolving from polytheism (PART 1), similarities between Christianity and...
View ArticleThe Jesus Myth? A Response to Richard Carrier (Part 5)
My apologies for the long delay in completing the series. Much has happened since my last post that is not pertinent to the topic at hand. This final part will be short and sweet. By way of review, we...
View ArticleRevenge of Objectivity: Preunderstanding, Presuppositions, and First...
The following is a paper I delivered at the 2013 International Society of Christian Apologetics conference. Please note that the paper is a critique of the claims that objective knowledge of the...
View ArticleRevenge of Objectivity: Preunderstanding, Presuppositions, and First...
Read Part 1 of this series HERE. Sociology of Knowledge and Presuppositionalism The presuppositional apologetic method of defending Christianity “is the apologetic system that...presupposes the truth...
View ArticleRevenge of Objectivity: Preunderstanding, Presuppositions, and First...
Read Part 1 and Part 2. A Critique Much could be said about the various aspects surrounding SOK as it relates to hermeneu- tics which have been discussed thus far. Once again, time and space permit...
View ArticleRevenge of Objectivity: Preunderstanding, Presuppositions, and First...
Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 for the full context. A Critique of the Sociology of Knowledge and Presuppositionalism Using the groundwork that has been laid regarding our critique of SOK in general,...
View ArticleEternal Matter(s): The Impossible God of Mormonism
As a follow up to our chapter's cross-examination of the doctrines and theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (a.k.a. Mormons), I wanted to delve a little deeper into the...
View ArticleEternal Matter(s) Revisited: Still the Impossible God of Mormonism
In our last post we began an examination of the philosophical impossibility of the Latter-Day Saint (a.k.a. Mormon) view of God and how such a view is actually quite similar to, and suffers from the...
View ArticleTrue Freedom
We recently celebrated our nation’s 238th birthday with great pomp and circumstance, fireworks, hotdogs, and parades. With all the problems we have in this nation, I still believe we are one of the...
View ArticleHeaven is for Real. Really?
Most Christians in our culture are so enamored with emotionally driven sensationalism these days that reports of people going to heaven, or hell, and back seem to be coming out of the woodwork. From...
View ArticleFaith: Superstition or Substance?
I’m a huge Indiana Jones fan. While I don’t own a bullwhip, I do have an Indy style fedora hanging on the lamp stand in my office. I don’t advocate many of his moral choices, but he has great...
View ArticleSex, Faith, and Utter Confusion
This past Thursday night (Aug. 21), I attended Sex and Faith: An Honest Conversation on the campus of UNC Greensboro. The panel discussion was sponsored by the UNCG Wesley-Luther student group, St....
View ArticleWhat's Love Got to Do with It?
I’ve been wanting to write a blog post responding to the comments on my previous post from months ago (some of which have been removed by their authors), the blog post “responding” to my Sex, Faith,...
View ArticleA Match Made in Heaven? How the National Day of Reason Actually Points to...
Reason. According to Merriam-Webster, it is “the power of the mind to think and understand in a logical way.”1 This intellectual power is often championed by atheistic thinkers and spurned by many who...
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