When I was in college, I remember reading F.F. Bruce’s superb work, Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free. I recall, however, Bruce’s suggestion that Paul’s preaching at Athens...

Do We Need to Tell People the Bad News Before the Good News?

We’ve seen them in all manner of places—on street corners, in parking lots, at craft fairs, outside stadiums. Sometimes they’re on wearing placards, admonishing hearers to...

Advice to a Future Seminarian

One of my students graduated recently from Palm Beach Atlantic University, and he is heading into seminary and then the pastorate. He took a full platter of classes from me,...

God is Great, God is Good: Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible

I’m excited about a new book that was delivered to my door two days ago, God Is Great, God Is Good, co-edited by William Lane Craig and Chad Meister (InterVarsity Press). Of...

by C Michael Patton

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Repealing Abolition

(I thought I’d include something of a different nature on my blog—a sermon I preached on Christian slavery.) Galatians 5:13: “For you were called to freedom, brethren; only...

The Galileo Incident: A Clash of Faith and Science?

The past few weeks I’ve been teaching an adult Sunday school class on the relationship between the Christian faith and science. We’ve reviewed what the Genesis text says—and...

by C Michael Patton

Paul Copan

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Contending with Christianity's Critics: Answering New Atheists and Other Objectors

Last month I blogged on the revised and expanded second edition of my book “True for You, But Not for Me”, which was recently released. Well, this month’s blog may seem like...

“True for You, But Not for Me” 2.0: The Newly-Released Revised, Expanded Edition

My very first book “True for You, But Not for Me”—the one with the purple cover—came out in 1998. The reason I wrote the book was that no one was really offering an...

Yahweh Wars and the Canaanites: Divinely-Mandated Genocide or Corporate Capital Punishment? Response to Critics

In the next issue of Philosophia Christi, I will be revisiting the topic of Yahweh wars and the killing of the Canaanites. This article appears with two essays critical of the...

God, Evidence, and the Will

Thomas Nagel, an atheist philosopher at New York University said something very revealing in his book The Last Word: In speaking of the fear of religion, I don’t mean to refer...

by C Michael Patton

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