God, The Shack, and the Christian Mind
By Adam Tucker
Unless you live under a rock, you’re no doubt familiar with the New York Times bestselling book The Shack by William P. Young that has also recently been released as a big-budget ...
The Kalam: An Overview & Defense
By Ronald Cram
William Lane Craig is famous for resurrecting and defending the Kalam Cosmological Argument (KCA). The argument appeals to both philosophical and scientific evidence for the ...
10 Things Children Should Learn About Faith
By Natasha Crain
[NOTE: This post is 4 years old but continues to receive a large number of visitors from Google searches on teaching kids about faith. A lot has happened here on the blog since ...
5 Ways Christian Parents Fail to Prepare Their Kids to Engage with Questions of Faith and Science
By Natasha Crain
I’m coming down to the final six weeks of writing my next book and am very much looking forward to being on the other side of that deadline! I’ve missed being able to blog ...
The Necessity of God’s Existence: Ontological Arguments Worth Considering
By Brian Chilton
One of the more difficult of the apologetics arguments to understand is that known as the ontological argument. The ontological argument finds root in Anselm of Canterbury’s ...
Did Man Invent God?
By Tim Stratton
I have recently become aware of a video on the internet that is making its way around the campus of the local university. Several college students told me that after viewing ...
Biblical Faith VS. Blind Faith
By Evan Minton
Many Christians when asked by unbelievers why they should believe anything The Bible says, the most common response is “Just have faith!”. And this “just have faith” line is ...
How Not Letting Your Children Ask a Question Leads Them to Atheism
By Michael C. Sherrard
Time and time again, I hear the story of one who has left their belief in God in the bin of their childhood memories alongside Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny. And more ...
When Does Personhood Begin? Part I
By Clinton Wilcox
Once you have established that the unborn are human from fertilization, the next step is to ask when we should assign basic human rights to a human individual [1]. The right ...
What is the Unborn?
By Clinton Wilcox
Before you can even answer the question of whether or not abortion is moral, you must first decide what the unborn is. For as Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason observes, if the ...
How to Leverage Moral Outrage for the Gospel
By Michael C Sherrard
It is good to acknowledge the appropriateness of ones anger in the midst of evil and pain. It is right to be angry over injustice. It is right to be sick at crimes against ...
Why Is There Even A Jesus Myth Theory?
By Stephen Bedard
I have spent much of my apologetics activity responding to the Jesus myth theory. My first book (co-authored with Stanley Porter) Unmasking the Pagan Christ and my first ...
8 Major Worldviews (Part 2)
By Bryan Chilton
In our last article, we presented the first four of the eight major worldviews. As we noted, this is a revision to a previous article that only listed six. The first article in ...
8 Major Worldviews (Part 1)
By: Brian Chilton
Before the website transferred from pastorbrianchilton.wordpress.com to bellatorchristi.com, I had written an article on the major worldviews across the globe. I presented six ...
The Wisdom Chronicle
The Wisdom Chronicle is designed to bring nuggets of wisdom from the dozens of books I read every year. I endeavor to share the best of what I have gleaned. The determination of relevance lies ...
Book Review: The Story of Reality by Greg Koukl
By Timothy Fox
I’ve waited for this book for a long time. I’ve been listening to Greg Koukl – one of my personal apologetics heroes – on the Stand to Reason podcast for years and he would ...
Necessary Existence of God
By Prayson Daniel
Judeo-Christians understand God as a being that is perfect in knowledge (Ps. 147:5), power (Job 42:2), presence (Ps. 139), acts (Ps. 18:30) and has none greater (Heb. 6:13) ...
One Fewer God?
By Derrick Stokes
There’s a popular quote by atheist Steven F. Roberts that many nonbelievers cite or paraphrase when debating Christians that says, “I contend we are both atheists. I just ...
Can Science Answer All Questions?
By Paul Rezkalla
In the movie Contact? Ellie told her father that she loved him, but she couldn’t prove it scientifically. That’s because science can’t do that sort of thing. Science can’t show ...
5 Attitude Changes That Will Transform Your Christian Parenting in the New Year
By Natasha Crain
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been able to write a post because my nose has been buried in writing my new book (if you’re new to the blog or missed what I’m working on, you ...
