I first started thinking about this post last year during Advent, but I think it’s still relevant now as we look ahead a few months to Easter.  We know Advent is a time of longing for the fulfillment of God’s promises, and baby Jesus is gift we celebrate with an eye toward his death and [...]

Is the field of apologetics making a comeback? An article at Christianity Today observes that in the wake of a recent onslaught of criticism by high-profile atheists and their books, Christian apologetics is primed to strike back. But it might not be the same type of apologetics you remember from the last few decades:
Dinesh D’Souza, [...]

May has been a horrific month of cyclones (100,000 possibly dead in Myanmar), earthquakes (55,000 reported dead in China) and thousands left homeless by the most-active tornado season ever in the Midwest. So, where is God in all these natural disasters?
Rabbi Daniel Lapin wrote, following December 2004’s tsunami, that when God commanded Adam and [...]

[HT: Tall Skinny Kiwi]
The Q and A is about 40 minutes into the video.

Any thoughts?

I had never heard of Eckhart Tolle and his “Oprah Book Club” best-seller, A New Earth, until a woman in a Christian writers’ group said she needed to leave early to catch the satelite seminar of the book. I do hope she was simply doing research and not an adherent to the latest [...]

OK, I promise this will be my last post on the Hitchens debate. But it looks like video from the debate is online, and you can watch the entire debate courtesy of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies.
The entire debate went on for about two hours, which is a bit much to watch on your [...]

It’s Friday afternoon; how about something fun? Well, maybe fun isn’t quite the word—perhaps schadenfreude is better. That’s what I experienced watching this video of famous skeptic James Randi exposing faith-healer/televangelist Peter Popoff as a fraud:

(Here’s a follow-up video detailing Popoff’s “ministry” and fall—and which mentions the depressing fact that Popoff is still out there [...]

A Place for Christians to Say Sorry.
Thoughts?

Yep, according to a new Harris poll, 62 percent of U.S. residents believe in a literal hell and the devil compared to only 42 percent who believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution. (I’ve always argued that it requires much more faith to believe incredibly complex life simply evolved than to believe in a Creator.)
The poll [...]

Throughout the primary campaign, Republican Mitt Romney has dodged questions about his Mormon faith. Now, trailing in Iowa caucus polls to conservative Christian Mike Huckabee, Mitt is taking off the gloves. He’ll address his faith in a news conference scheduled for today.
I suspect he will echo President John Kennedy, who argued [...]