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  • The Genetic Fallacy and Reading Genesis

    Ever since I graduated from seminary, I’ve had to deal with the issue of credentials. This has come up in the church and in the classroom. When I first started teaching Bible, I had students who thought because they grew up in church, they pretty much had the Bible figured out. As I would challenge…

  • Black on the Air: Truth Unexpected

    Over at Christ and Pop Culture, you can read my article on Larry Wilmore’s Black on the Air. After listening to a few episodes this summer, I knew I wanted to write something on the podcast. There’s actually several that I’d like to do something similar for, but this was the place to start. Initially,…

  • Rooted, Unparalleled, and Philosophy in Seven Sentences

    I’m always on the lookout for helpful primers on the subjects I study. Often, introductory texts can be so daunting it is hard to know where to start. Thankfully, new books continued to be published. Even if there is overlap at times, that just means there are more options for just the right audience. In…

  • True Paradox, A Doubter’s Guide, Disappearing Church

    Apologetics is becoming more and more about finesse. Maybe it always has been. Straightforward presentations of facts and figures don’t usually cut it. There’s gotta be an angle. I think some of this comes down to the audience. If you’re writing apologetics for other Christians, you don’t have to pay as much attention to persuasion.…

  • How To Be An Atheist: Why Many Skeptics Aren’t Skeptical Enough

    While it hasn’t shown up in my recent reviews and reading, I have a long standing interest in apologetics. Specifically, I’m partial to presuppositional apologetics. One strategy within this school of apologetics (though not necessarily limited to it), is assuming the premises of the opposing argument to then tease out how it doesn’t make sense…

  • Their Rock Is Not Like Our Rock: A Theology of Religions

    Everyone who reads a good bit has favorite authors. When another author uses many of your favorite authors in writing their book, it usually catches your attention. That was my experience in reading through Daniel Strange’s Their Rock Is Not Like Our Rock: A Theology of Religions. I made most of my way through it back in…

  • Searching For Jesus: New Discoveries In The Quest For Jesus of Nazareth – And How They Confirm The Gospel Accounts

    As is my custom during Christmas and Easter, I’ve been reading some books related to the holidays. Alongside The First Days of Jesus and The Great Christ Comet, I just finished up Robert Hutchinson’s Searching For Jesus: New Discoveries In The Quest For Jesus of Nazareth. Often, I am skeptical of these sorts of books. After reading…

  • Mapping Apologetics: Comparing Contemporary Approaches

    My fandom for multiview books knows no ends. However, they are usually authored by individuals holding those divergent views. In this case, a single author has done, in some ways, what many multi-view books fail to achieve. In short, Brian Morley has actually offered a coherent map of contemporary approaches in Christian apologetics. Probably because…

  • Fool’s Talk: Recovering The Art of Christian Persuasion

    I have a fairly long interest in apologetics. I’m not actually sure when it started, but the skeleton was taking shape by the time I left Bible school and was put to the test while I worked at Starbucks. The bones got meat put on them while I was in seminary, and I would eventually win…

  • The Stories We Tell: Chapters 3, 4, & 10

    Last time, we looked the core part of Mike Cosper’s The Stories We Tell. Now, we’ll go back and hit chapters 3-4 before finishing up with the last chapter. From what I can tell, you can still get the eBook of this for free as a Christ and Pop Culture member. That probably won’t be…