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• Time for Change: Retiring this Blog to Focus on a Crucial New Initiative March 9, 2019
  How does one say this, after all these years, all these friendships, all these interactions? It’s been quite a ride, for one thing. And it’s coming full circle. When I started this blog on another platform almost 15 years ago, I thought it was going to be about Christian strategy. It quickly morphed into an […]
  Tom Gilson
• The Man Who Gave His Consent To Be Born February 16, 2019
  News came out a couple weeks ago about Raphael Samuel, a 27-year-old Indian man who’s reportedly suing his parents for bringing him into this world without his consent. “Life was imposed on me…. I want to make it a legal right for a child to sue a parent…. Ideally the parents should not have the […]
  Tom Gilson
• Who’s Interested in Apologetics and Why? New Research Reveals New Answers February 2, 2019
  Why are some Christians more interested in apologetics than others? Do you think you know the reasons? Probably. But only partly. The Spiritual Readiness Project has just released a research report this morning on What Motivates Interest In Apologetics? Read it online or download the printable version. Prepare to nod your head in agreement with some […]
  Tom Gilson
• How and How Not to Use Psychological Research Regarding Abortion and Other Social Issues January 26, 2019
  I was just looking at a Facebook battle over whether women tend to suffer emotional distress after an abortion. A secular psychiatrist said there’s no evidence; someone else insisted there was. As Christians we are committed to truth. We need to know what we’re talking about, to make sure we’re speaking truth, before we engage […]
  Tom Gilson
• Jesus Is Too Good To Be False January 17, 2019
  Groundbreaking “Lewis-esque” article now available again! Five years ago I published an article at Touchstone magazine that I titled “Too Good to be False,” and which they titled, “The Gospel Truth of Jesus.” Leading New Testament documents scholar Daniel Wallace paid me the compliment of calling it “Lewis-esque.” For quite a long time Touchstone displayed it for free on their website, […]
  Tom Gilson
• Skeptic Shermer Won’t Be Fooled Again; Gets Fooled Again January 10, 2019
  Let’s start by agreeing Shermer is right, as he opens this interview: Humans do seek out evidence that supports our beliefs. We do tend to cement our convictions more than we question them. He’s wrong, though, when he tells Stephen Colbert (at 1:40), “The only way to tell, really, the difference between these true patterns […]
  Tom Gilson
• Why 2019 Must Be Your Church’s Year to Wake Up, Get Equipped, and Reach Out January 2, 2019
  Happy New Year! It could be a great one, if we’ll finally wake up, get equipped, and reach out. That’s why I want to ask you to take thirty minutes to watch at least the first half of this video. Dr. Michael Brown and I were talking on his Line of Fire radio program about […]
  Tom Gilson
• Why Don’t Atheists Show More Curiosity About Their Own Beliefs? December 26, 2018
  We Christians get charged with believing things uncritically, not showing sufficient curiosity about other beliefs, or about how ours could be true. I’ve got the same sort of question for atheists.* Thinking Christian commenter Benjamin Cain supposes that the God Christians worship is a “human-like,” “monstrous,” “psychopathic,” “jealous, irrational, sadistic tyrant,” waving the equivalent of […]
  Tom Gilson
• Urgent Call to the Church: Wake Up and Take Action! December 20, 2018
  Western society is rapidly moving toward totalitarianism. I never would have thought it possible — yet it’s happening. Christianity in particular is under attack, at risk like never before in our part of the world. I’m not new to these issues, but a recent National Review article by John Daniel Davidson was still a kick […]
  Tom Gilson
• Sex, Bias, and the Design of Life December 13, 2018
  I’ve been reading the competition, so to speak — not that there really is any competition with Ed Feser. I don’t agree with everything he says, naturally, but still he’s untouchable as a top-notch thinker/blogger. Anyway, I want to pick up and run with something he wrote on sex and teleology just before Thanksgiving. His point […]
  Tom Gilson

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