We received these wise words from a faculty friend of ESN. If you would like to contribute to the Emerging Scholars Blog, anonymously or otherwise, please contact me. Thank-you! ~ Tom Asking open-ended questions is often the best way to begin a conversation with a new friend or stranger, "What is your religious background? How did that affect you?" In my teaching, I introduce each new topic with questions. In advising students in required speech class, I usually recommend that each new section of their talk … [Read more...] about Asking Open-Ended Questions
Francis Schaeffer
Why “Christian Apologetics”? — Hell
One of the ways in which the damned will be condemned is that they will see themselves condemned by their own reason, by which they claimed to condemn the Christian religion. -- Blaise Pascal. Penses. ed. and trans. A. Krailsheimer (New York: Penguin, 1966), 175/563, p. 84. In To skim or not to skim: A ‘case' study of “Christian Apologeticsâ€, I share my initial response to Douglas Groothuis' newly released 752 page casebound Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for the Biblical Faith (IVP. 2011). As … [Read more...] about Why “Christian Apologetics”? — Hell