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Why Would a Good God Make a Bad Place Like Hell?

Published on August 16, 2026 By sirrahc

Last month, I shared a vignette from Part 1 of the “Rapid Fire” series published in Stand to Reason’s (STR) newsletter. (It was a follow-up to earlier posts in which I shared vignettes from Parts 4 & 5 in the series.) In this post, Greg Koukl clearly addresses another question (from Part 1) often posed […]

Why Does God Make Death the Deadline for Salvation?

Published on July 26, 2026 By sirrahc

I figured I was “due” to share something involving Christian theology or apologetics this week, but I didn’t have anything in the works and was growing short on time. Then I remembered Stand to Reason (STR) and the “Rapid Fire” series they did in their newsletter not long ago. If you’ve been reading along, you […]

Is ID Just Religious Pseudo-Science?

Published on June 7, 2026 By sirrahc

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 […]

Is Consciousness Really an Illusion?

Published on April 19, 2026 By sirrahc

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 […]

What You Might Not Know About Easter

Published on March 31, 2024 By sirrahc

Due to a mild case of procrastination, exacerbated by multiple distractions of varying importance, I almost didn’t get a blogpost prepared for this week. First, I wasn’t sure whether or not I wanted to do something Easter-related this year. I did have a potential source article to draw from regarding pagan origins. But, once I […]

Child Sacrifice and Jephthah’s Vow to God

Published on July 9, 2023 By sirrahc

“The Bible’s weird, but maybe not as weird as it seems at first.” — Robby Lashua, Stand to Reason This post is about one of those passages in the Bible that makes one say, “He did WHAT?!!” It is from Judges 11, in which the Israelites (specifically, those east of the River Jordan in the […]

Cops, Conservatives, and Christian Apologists

Published on November 28, 2021 By sirrahc

This is a slightly belated Thanksgiving post, but… it’s still the Thanksgiving Weekend, right? This year, I would like to take note of three things I am truly thankful for. Well, I guess I should say they are classes or categories of things. First, I want to acknowledge the U.S. military, intelligence services, and law […]

RPL

Published on February 14, 2021 By sirrahc

“A good teacher doesn’t merely tell his students that they’re wrong. A good teacher shows his students why they’re wrong so that they don’t make the same mistake twice. He corrects because he cares.” — Tim Barnett Years ago, I did a series of posts on informal fallacies in logic. Never finished the series, but […]

Giving Thanks Through the Tough Times

Published on November 29, 2020 By sirrahc

“We remind ourselves that everything we have is a gift from God to be used for God, and that our hope is not found in the things of this world but in Christ alone.” — Jonathan Noyes, Stand to Reason Yes, this is a post-Thanksgiving thanksgiving post. You’re welcome. I was listening to Greg Koukl’s […]

Recommended Resources for a Christian Having a Crisis of Faith

Published on October 21, 2018 By sirrahc

“I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.” — I John 5:13 (HCSB) If you are like me, you sometimes find yourself going through long-neglected directories on your computer, ostensibly in search of ancient or otherwise unneeded […]