Gallup recently released a poll that showed for the first time “a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking this question in 1995.” One of the many things that this poll reveals is that there are multiple worldviews that affirm a pro-life stance.
One example is a recent Denver Post [...]
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A Collision of Lives: atheist vs. theist
Posted in Atheism, Films on November 12, 2008 | Comments Off
Below is a clip of a forthcoming documentary featuring debates between atheist author Christopher Hitchens and Christian pastor Douglas Wilson:
[HT: Justin Taylor]
Also see this page from Christianity Today about this documentary.
Dawkins vs. Tolle: Who is the bigger threat to Christianity?
Posted in Atheism, Spirituality, tagged A New Earth, Atheism, David Brooks, Eckhart Tolle, God Delusion, Neural Buddhists, Richard Dawkins, Spirituality on June 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
There are two streams of literature that are popular in today’s culture. One stream is the new proselytizing atheists such as Richard Dawkins. The other is the “neural buddhists” such as Eckhart Tolle. Both streams are reaching a big audience of people. However, I wanted to pondering which stream is more dangerous for the Christian [...]
“God’s Problem” – Bart Ehrman
Posted in Atheism, Book Reviews on March 19, 2008 | Comments Off
Tim Challies has a good overall review of the book God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer our Most Important Question — Why we Sufferby Bart Ehrman, who is a respectable scholar and former follower of Jesus. Challies focuses more on the person of Ehrman that is seen in the pages of this book [...]
I don’t want to base my life upon a myth
Posted in Atheism, Evanston Bible Fellowship on December 11, 2007 | Comments Off
My church (Evanston Bible Fellowship) has posted its first youTube video. In the video, my pastor Jason Lancaster tells a story about him trying to sell his ipod to an athesit. Take a look:
My favorite bit is when Jason talks about the pointlessness of the pastorate if the resurrection did not happen. Here [...]
Jesus is not a drug
Posted in Atheism, Emerging Church on December 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I work at a couple of jobs where not many people know Jesus. As a result, I get to hear many interesting takes on Jesus and Christianity. One of these exchanges happened this week when an atheistic Jew (culturally Jewish) came up to me and had a concern with another Christian at work. The atheist is [...]
“Angry atheists are hot authors”
Posted in Atheism on May 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Theists are not the only ones that are passionate about their beliefs. There is also a growing number of atheists that are taking their message to the world by proclaiming it and writing about it. That message is basically that it is unscientific, unreasonable and foolish to claim that God exists. As this recent article, [...]
