The Bias of Skeptics
Most skeptics I talk to think they operate completely without bias in their skepticism and agnosticism. They often demonstrate a startling lack of self-awareness of their assumptions. One hundred years ago, the British essayist G. K. Chesterton noted the frustrating...
Machen on the Necessity of Apologetics
You can teach about evangelism all you want, but if you don’t include apologetics training, you reduce your effectiveness exponentially. False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the gospel. We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and...
Atheism Cannot Logically Argue for Morality
Atheists insist that they can have morality without God. The standard for right and wrong, they tell us, is human flourishing, or empathy, or usefulness, or some other such vague idea. But then they are faced with the problem of defining those concepts, and applying...
Is there value in apologetics if it does not lead to evangelism?
I wonder if “apologetics” which does not lead people to Christ as Savior, and then on to their living under the Lordship of Christ in the whole of life, really is Christian apologetics. There certainly is a place for an academic study of a subject called...