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Review: Handbook of Christian Apologetics

I am always cautious when it comes to “apologetics” material. You see the quotation marks around that word. I am specifically talking about material (books, DVDs, courses, and even degrees) which offer the one-stop solution to being a bona fide  “apologist.” So many of these popular level books might as well come with the subtitle Read [...]

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On Other Religions and Miracles: Part 2

In part one of this article I addressed the question of whether miracles have ceased in the world today (a view called cessationism). Instead of taking an overly philosophical approach to this question I merely stated that having originally been a cessationist, my views on the topic changed drastically when I encountered a miracle of [...]

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God Is Dead: Good Friday and the Question of Hell

The Bara Initiative discusses the meaning of Jesus’ cry from the cross: Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani

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Did Jesus Exist?

  Bart Ehrman, the Dean of Religious Studies at UNC, takes issue with the objection that Jesus of Nazareth never existed. A very popular notion growing in much of the anti-Christian literature, it is no small deal that an agnostic/atheist scholar like Ehrman goes after the ‘mythicists’ to debunk claims that Jesus was made up. [...]