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May 2014

May 31, 2014
Few Americans can list the Ten Commandments, but so what? What is their relevance in...
May 28, 2014
Here are the final five questions that thoughtful Christians must answer.
May 26, 2014
Here are ten tough questions every thoughtful Christian must answer. In fact, Christians can and...
May 23, 2014
We can tell charities from country clubs by their financial statements. Charities do good works...
May 21, 2014
Senator Grassley was largely ignored by six ministries when he asked for information about their...
May 19, 2014
The crazy guy with the tinfoil hat? Today, he’s concerned about the NSA. Decades past,...
May 16, 2014
U.S. nonprofits are required to disclose their financial information to the public. It’s a contract—the...
May 14, 2014
Seeing our own mistakes makes it easier to sympathize when others are wrong. But how...
May 13, 2014
Here’s a Hollywood version of an evil atheist philosophy professor. Want a chance to learn...
May 12, 2014
The Supremes handed down a surprising decision that permits prayers city council meetings. I think...
May 09, 2014
Some New Testament parables are pretty good. They make a useful point, and they add...
May 07, 2014
A Christian blogger has a new argument for Jesus. It gets points for being novel,...
May 05, 2014
Let’s take a look back at some highlights of the Cross Examined blog on today’s...
May 02, 2014
IBM-compatible MS-DOS PCs used to start up displaying a C-prompt (the “C:>” with a blinking...

April 2014

April 30, 2014
Here are four rebuttals to the fine-tuning argument that don’t get enough attention.
April 28, 2014
Physicist Sean Carroll gives five responses to the apologist’s argument that the universe was finely...
April 25, 2014
Philosopher William Lane Craig debated cosmology with a cosmologist, Sean Carroll. Predictably, Christianity didn’t fare...
April 23, 2014
What are we to make of the Shroud of Turin? Is it a miracle or...
April 22, 2014
Apologists claim hundreds of prophecies fulfilled by the life of Jesus, and this psalm is...
April 21, 2014
The apostle Paul claims that 500 people saw Jesus alive after his crucifixion. This claim...
April 20, 2014
Apologists love to bring up the women at the tomb. Women weren’t reliable witnesses in...
April 18, 2014
The crucifixion story? Not that big a deal. Here are 10 reasons why it makes...
April 17, 2014
How many days did Jesus teach after his resurrection? Was it 40 days as Acts...
April 16, 2014
It’s almost Easter, a good time to launch a movie about a boy who visits...
April 16, 2014
Mythology has many precedents to the story of the resurrection of Jesus. Christian apologists want...
April 15, 2014
Let’s conclude Ray Comfort’s list of clues that we’re in the end times to see...
April 14, 2014
It’s time to check in with our friendly Doomsday prophets. Both John Hagee (the “four...
April 11, 2014
Another apologist is convinced that he has a simple approach to the evidence for the...
April 09, 2014
Wouldn’t it be great to find a simple equation that computes the likelihood of the...
April 07, 2014
What happened during the Bible’s Dark Ages, the period from the original documents to our...
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