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Loving Your Atheist Neighbor, Part 2 (Urbana preview)

October 19, 2015 by Rick Mattson 6 Comments

Rick Mattson, InterVarsity staff and author of  How Faith Is Like Skydiving: And Other Memorable Images for Dialogue with Seekers and Skeptics(InterVarsity Press, 2014), continues his series. Rick  will be speaking at Urbana  in a seminar called "Love Your Atheist Neighbor," and he's giving us a preview here. Read Part 1.  Interested in doing a series on Urbana or an interview with an Urbana speaker?  Email us here. Responding to the Science-only Objection In my prior post I replied to the question, Who is my … [Read more...] about Loving Your Atheist Neighbor, Part 2 (Urbana preview)

Filed Under: Life in the Academy Tagged With: apologetics, atheism, evangelism, Love Your Atheist Neighbor series, science, science and faith, scientific naturalism, urbana, urbana seminar, urbana15

Loving Your Atheist Neighbor, Part 1 (Urbana preview)

October 5, 2015 by Rick Mattson 3 Comments

As preparation for Urbana, we'll be sharing encouragement from speakers who are giving seminars, and possibly others involved in Urbana as well. Today  Rick Mattson, InterVarsity staff and author of How Faith Is Like Skydiving: And Other Memorable Images for Dialogue with Seekers and Skeptics (InterVarsity Press, 2014), kicks off with an excellent series. Because Urbana is a place to engage with our vocations as Christians and missional academics, we'll sometimes share these on Mondays, alternating with Scholar's Call. … [Read more...] about Loving Your Atheist Neighbor, Part 1 (Urbana preview)

Filed Under: Life in the Academy Tagged With: alvin plantinga, apologetics, atheism, evangelism, Love Your Atheist Neighbor series, Richard Dawkins, urbana, urbana seminar, urbana15

Scholar’s Compass: Surely the Lord Was in the Rare Books Room, Part 2

June 28, 2015 by Paul Yandle Leave a Comment

In Part 1, Paul Yandle described a challenge to his faith in Scripture brought on by study in the archives. Here he explores  some aspects of his life experience that made that challenge especially strong,  then tells the story of what he came to realize through it.   “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.” (Isaiah 53:2) Reflection One of the biggest mysteries of all is the fact that God works in the seemingly mundane. Though I  was a Christian by the … [Read more...] about Scholar’s Compass: Surely the Lord Was in the Rare Books Room, Part 2

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Love God and One Another, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: apologetics, big questions, Inerrancy, Love God and One Another, Rare books room series, Scholar's Compass, Scripture, The Four Loves

Book Review: True Paradox

May 9, 2015 by Bob Trube Leave a Comment

Summary: David Skeel argues that far from being a problem for Christians, the complexity of the world is in fact something best explained by the Christian faith. This book is helpful both for the person considering whether it makes sense to become a Christian as well as for Christians looking for ways to articulate how Christian faith makes sense of life's deepest questions. Many people consider that Christians are “simple minded” and that anything that is complex or poses intellectual challenges is problematic to … [Read more...] about Book Review: True Paradox

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: apologetics, Book Review, Christian Apologetics, complexity, David Skeel, justice, Patrick Arsenault, True Paradox, william stuntz

Book Review: Apologetics Beyond Reason

March 14, 2015 by Bob Trube 2 Comments

Apologetics Beyond Reason: Why Seeing Really Is Believing By James W. Sire My rating: 4 of 5 stars There is everything. Therefore there is a God. Either you see this or you don't. This epigraph at the beginning of James W. Sire's latest book captures  the “apologetic” for the Christian faith that Sire proposes. In the course of the book, he rings the changes on this syllogism, substituting for “everything” the terms “literature” and “the music of Johann Sebastian Bach” among others. What he addresses … [Read more...] about Book Review: Apologetics Beyond Reason

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: apologetics, Book Review, faith, James Sire

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