Part 1 is here The prevailing dismissal of Christianity in the university world includes the accusation that faith is "anti-science" in its rejection of evolution and its acceptance of miracles and Intelligent Design (I.D.). Yet, there are several...

Last school year, InterVarsity students at the University of Montana invited me to help them respond to the university world's critique of Christianity. According to the secular university, Christianity is racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-science, hostile toward other religions,...

My whole life I've hung out with atheists. Now I'm writing a book with an atheist friend, Tom Jump. Tom is a successful YouTuber with over 30k followers. It's there on his YouTube channel that he debates Christians...

Part 3 in this series is here In the world of higher education where I work, it's common for Christian students to lose their faith. Why? One reason (among many) is that they lack rationale for their beliefs....

In the prior post I mentioned that evangelicals and liberals* tend to have differing starting points: Scripture as interpreted historically, going back to the creeds (evangelicals); and science along with the best of contemporary culture and learning (liberal...

Part 1 of this series is here. It's about working with evangelical and liberal students on campus. A few years ago I was sitting in a fascinating seminary class called “Liberal-Evangelical Dialogue.” I’d already been in that dialogue...

I've been reading the noted historian, George Marsden, professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He tells of the great split that occurred among Protestants in the early 20th c. between "liberals" and "evangelicals." Liberals were concerned...

Part 2 is here Why is there so much suffering and evil in the world? Why doesn't God do more to heal the sick? Why doesn't he take down all the bad guys? Even little kids wonder about...

In Part 1 I related how my heart was touched by the holy sites of Israel. I'm definitely not above the innocent wonderment of, say, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem or the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem....

Visiting Israel for the first time, I wondered what to expect. Would it be over-commercialized? Would the holy sites be little more than tourist traps? More lamentably, would I be too old and cynical to appreciate the simplicity...