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- Overcoming ‘Moral’ Defenses Against the Truth (Video Message, Defend Apologetics Conference) February 17, 2020Updating my video messages online at Thinking Christian: Here’s my plenary session at Defend 2016: Overcoming “Moral” Defenses Against the Truth. It’s a serious issue in the faith... The post Overcoming ‘Moral’ Defenses Against the Truth (Video Message, Defend Apologetics Conference) appeared first on Thinking Christian.Tom Gilson
- Naturalistic Evolution Reckons Too Little With Its Own Meaning February 17, 2020In a Facebook comment on my Stream article about Darwin Day, Ryan Downie asked, How does it not make sense to create your own meaning? Meaning doesn’t have to be... The post Naturalistic Evolution Reckons Too Little With Its Own Meaning appeared first on Thinking Christian.Tom Gilson
- Be Counter-Cultural: Keep On Speaking the Truth! February 14, 2020A talk I gave at The River Church, March 10, 2019. Half of millennials in a recent poll said it was wrong to share their faith with others,... The post Be Counter-Cultural: Keep On Speaking the Truth! appeared first on Thinking Christian.Tom Gilson
- 50 Simple Questions for Christians: Strange Definitions February 10, 2020I’m running a weekly series at The Stream this year on Guy P. Harrison’s 50 Simple Questions for Every Christian. There are a lot more than 50 questions... The post 50 Simple Questions for Christians: Strange Definitions appeared first on Thinking Christian.Tom Gilson
- Apologetics, Culture, Worldview, and Politics — Video Conversation with Haden Clark January 28, 2020Haden Clark, host of Help Me Believe, invited me to a video conversation last week, where we talked about apologetics, culture, blogging, politics (especially socialism), worldview, and The Stream. The post Apologetics, Culture, Worldview, and Politics — Video Conversation with Haden Clark appeared first on Thinking Christian.Tom Gilson
- On Reading Old Books Because They’re Great January 21, 2020I set myself a goal of reading one old book a month in 2020, and this month it’s Charles Dickens’ Bleak House. I’m only a quarter of the... The post On Reading Old Books Because They’re Great appeared first on Thinking Christian.Tom Gilson
- Reading Old Books in 2020 December 31, 2019I'm planning to read old books, at least one a month in 2020. Here I post my list of reading goals, and describe some reasons I'm looking forward to it. The post Reading Old Books in 2020 appeared first on Thinking Christian.Tom Gilson
- Critical Theory’s No-Hope Mix of Power, Oppression, and Moral Confusion December 20, 2019Critical theory seeks to set the world right by ending oppressors' use of power against the oppressed, but it runs into trouble in its understanding of happiness and morality, among other things. The post Critical Theory’s No-Hope Mix of Power, Oppression, and Moral Confusion appeared first on Thinking Christian.Tom Gilson
- The Mirror or the Mask by Lydia McGrew: Liberating Gospel Readers from a Return to a Pre-Reformation Interpretive ‘Priesthood’? December 11, 2019The Mirror or the Mask by Lydia McGrew corrects what seems to be an ominous turn to a required "priesthood" of scholars to interpret the Gospels. The post The Mirror or the Mask by Lydia McGrew: Liberating Gospel Readers from a Return to a Pre-Reformation Interpretive ‘Priesthood’? appeared first on Thinking Christian.Tom Gilson
- Help Decide My Next Book Title! December 2, 2019My latest book is in publishing, and we’re trying to nail down its title. We had a title chosen previously; we got some feedback; now we’re changing it.... The post Help Decide My Next Book Title! appeared first on Thinking Christian.Tom Gilson