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Loving our Atheist Neighbors with Truth and Love: Rick Mattson at Urbana

January 18, 2016 by May Yuan No Comments

How should Christians approach conversations about faith with atheists? At the Urbana Student Missions Conference, Rick Mattson examined common atheist arguments and argued for a holistic Christian response that includes intellect, care-giving, and friendship.

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Filed Under: Urbana2015 Tagged With: apologetics, atheism, dialogue, evangelism, Faith is Like Skydiving, intervarsity press, liveblogging, Love, Love Your Atheist Neighbor series, modernism, postmodernism, Rick Mattson, truth, urbana, urbana seminar, urbana15

Getting started with “How Faith Is Like Skydiving” (Excerpt)

May 2, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Many books on apologetics do well with the arguments, but have little on how to present them. Faith Is Like Skydiving combines reason with rhetoric, clarity with intellectual depth. It provides a vast array of arguments and a host of images to make those arguments clear and compelling. Intellectually sound and amazingly practical, this terrific book […]

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Faith Is Like Skydiving: Interview with Rick Mattson

April 21, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Rick Mattson Presenting on Campus

When Faith Is Like Skydiving: And Other Memorable Images for Dialogue with Seekers and Skeptics came in the mail from InterVarsity Press (IVP) I just had to drop my colleague Rick Mattson[1] an email to enable us to learn more about his new publication. Note: As you may remember Rick wrote a resource rich series on Headed to Graduate School which […]

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