Often, when I am discussing the violent teachings of the Islamic faith, someone will counter with “what about the crusades?” I am so tired of…
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I am commonly on facebook groups seeking to test my ideas and engage with intellectual people on the topic of faith. Unfortunately, as we all…
I get tired of the atheist canard that religion has killed more people in history than any other ideology. First, they are willing to attribute…
This post is part of a series. In Part 1 of this series, I argued that warlike rhetoric is not unethical, but it must be…
This is our first year doing homeschooling – we are starting our 6th grader, while our two younger children are still in the excellent Walnut…
George W. Braswell Jr.’s Islam: Its Prophet, Peoples, Politics and Power is a concise yet fairly comprehensive introduction to the history, doctrines, and practice of…
In A Muslim View of Christianity: Essays on Dialogue (Faith Meets Faith), Mahmoud Ayoub attempts to initiate, describe and model Muslim/Christian dialogue. These collected lectures…
As part of my Religions of the World class at Fuller Theological Seminary, I am focusing on understanding Islam. One of the books I am…
As an agnostic who became a Christian in his early 20’s, then 10 years later left the faith for 8 years to explore other faith…
This post is part of a series. Listening to yet another daily horror committed by ‘extremist’ Islamists, I again became incensed at how many people (millions)…
Former Christian and now atheist Cara has a blog at Think Atheist, and posted this list of questions (questions originally posted by Thomas Swan) and…
I’ve written much on Islam over the past years, and thought to summarize it. The Real History of the Crusades For starters, the Crusades to…
Frank Beckwith – no god, no good A. Natural rights 1. Our rights wrt other citizens 2. Natural law tells us what things have value…
Atheists and secularists love to trot out the canard that religion has harmed more people than it has helped, and has been at the root…
I am excited to have just discovered Dr. Peter Hammond, “the Founder and Director of Frontline Fellowship and the Founder and Chairman of Africa Christian…
Joe over at Patheos has a nice list of 100 Spiritually Significant Films, which has given me a few more titles for my online queue. …
Luke over at Common Sense Atheism is engaging in a letter exchange with Tim Challies which should be really great. I am not Tim Challies, but I endeavor to be. All I need is to publish my own book and…
Dr. Alvin Schmidt was interviewed in a series on the excellent Lutheran Issues Etc regarding his new book, How Christianity Changed the World. I am blogging…
Alvin Schmidt has written what may be one of the definitive books on the positive influence of Christianity in history, entitled How Christianity Changed the…
Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and Douglas Wilson, author of Letter from a Christian Citizen, seek to tackle…
If you would like to keep up on Islam, try these sites. Most are anti-terrorism, but I’ve include a few from the other side. A…
It has often been said, "History is written by the victors," which is to say that, no written history is without the biases of its…
This post is part of a series. All of us civilized peoples can agree that Islamic terrorism is bad – really bad. But we can…
I thought this article at the Huffington Post was worth reading. I have listed his main points below. If you want to read the commentary…