“It’s not merely about safeguarding life in the womb; we must consider the treatment of early-stage life as well.” — Allie Beth Stuckey, Blaze TV host and Christian apologist Donald Trump has been promoting in vitro fertilization (IVF) since his last campaign, and last year he began implementing what he thought was very pro-life policy […]
Back in April/May, you may remember that I posted a couple vignettes from Part 4 of Greg Koukl’s “Rapid Fire” series — in which he gives relatively brief yet well-reasoned responses to challenges heard in Christian apologetics — in STR’s “Solid Ground” newsletter. Those two posts were on consciousness and abortion, respectively. Now I have […]
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a bit about the “Rapid Fire” series Greg Koukl was doing lately in STR’s “Solid Ground” newsletter. I then reproduced one of the vignettes (from Part 4) in which Koukl examined the atheist-materialist claim that “Consciousness is an illusion.” I promised another vignette for you to cogitate on, so […]
Greg Koukl and his team at Stand to Reason (STR) put out a bimonthly newsletter titled “Solid Ground”, in which Koukl (or possibly a guest-writer) addresses some biblical, theological, philosophical, and/or socio-cultural issue. Lately, he has been doing a series called “Rapid Fire”, in which he gives brief responses to multiple such questions in each […]
“It’s ironic that a video trying to expose the most blatant misconception of Christianity gives us a blatant misconception of Christianity.” — Mr. B, “Red Pen Logic” For some teaching/commentary apropos of the current holiday season, we return to Christian apologist Mr. B and his “Red Pen Logic” channel on YouTube. The brief videos below […]
“There are reasons to question whether authorities are telling us the truth. Doing so does not make you a conspiracy theorist. But abandoning truth and reason does.” — O. Alan Noble, Dispatch Faith The Dispatch newsletters are, I admit, not exactly my favorites. I often disagree with their takes on socio-political matters, or at least […]
“If unguided evolution really can do its magic, this should not be too difficult. However, if the challenge cannot be met, Darwinists must be asked to explain why.” — Günter Bechly, paleo-entomologist (CSC) As I was scrolling through some notes the other day, I found that I had been holding onto the URL for an […]
Just to clarify up front, the titular “manual” is the Bible, and the excerpt below is from The Roman Catholic Controversy by James R. White. (My readers may remember that this book was among those listed in my recent “Five Non-Fiction Books I Enjoyed Reading in 2025” post.) The doctrine of justification is central to […]
“Personnel is policy [and] who a religious organization hires may go to the very character of its religious mission.” — Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals This just happened a few days ago, and it’s definitely worth noting. An appellate court has ruled that the government has no right to force church and ministry organizations to hire people […]
“AI mirrors its creator — Grok 4, with its curated data, reflects xAI’s biases, not an objective truth. Its reasoning, while advanced, remains bounded by human design and data, incapable of grasping the totality of existence.” — Grok 3.0 Not sure if I have addressed this in print before, but I have many concerns about […]
