Upcoming Speaking Engagements, Including Three Recently Added (2 @ Harvard, 1 @ Taylor)
Just in case you, or someone you love and respect, would like to attend, here are the gigs coming up fast: March 12: “Is It Crazy to Be a...

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If Richard Dawkins Showed Up in Sunday School…
…would we be ready to respond? My most recent column in Faith Today notes that the New Atheists raise Old Questions that can be answered...

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The Ascension: Did Jesus Pass Saturn on His Way Up?
A new friend writes: George Stroumboulopoulos had Bill Maher on his program talking about his film ‘Religulous’. Bill asked a question,...

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More Free Audio…
Regent’s Marketplace Institute offers a wide range of audio recordings aimed at those who work outside the church or the academy. My own...

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Concentrating the Mind
“Depend upon it, sir,” said Samuel Johnson, “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”...

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Wondering Fair Now Launched
A multi-national team of sharp young writers–plus one not-so-young professor–has begun a blog called “Wondering Fair” to engage Big...

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More Video: Stanford Multi-Faith Seminar 2010
Two events in which your servant was involved are now available for video (and audio) consumption. The first is a threefold presentation...

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"All Religions Are the Same…" (except Where They're Not)
It was my privilege to participate in an event at Stanford University last weekend that featured a Muslim apologist (Jihad Turk), a Hindu...

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The Helpful Strangeness of Jesus
A friend recently confided in me that he was afraid of dying. A lifelong Christian, he has recently been plagued by doubts, and...

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Animal Suffering/Natural Evil before the Fall
This past week, in teaching at Regent and in lecturing at UBC, the same question came up in both contexts: What are we Christians to make...

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Taking the Cross Out of the Classroom
Here‘s my most recent contribution to the National Post’s religion blog: I’m defending the recent European Court’s direction to the...

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Atheist "Refutation" of the Cosmological Argument? Not Here, Not Now
A reader asks: “Professor Stackhouse, Do you have any comments on The Apostate’s post about William Lane Craig? I reply: I stopped...

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Why Christianity Is Believable: Part Four
Two data: That’s all I need. The two facts are (a) an empty tomb, and (b) enthusiastic disciples. Let’s see what might follow. After his...

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Why Christianity Is Believable: Part Three
One might well object to the foregoing thus: “The New Testament is our only record of these events, and it’s hopelessly biased and...

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Why Christianity Is Believable: Part Two
Fun as it would be to argue over various perennial questions in the long, long debate over the intellectual credibility of Christianity,...

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Why Christianity Is Believable: A Reply to Dawkinsians and Their Ilk (Part One)
A couple of posts ago, I replied to Richard Dawkins’s charge that theologians don’t do anything useful. I replied in a couple of respects...

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Campus Ministry That's Not for Every One
I’m just back from several days on the University of Ottawa campus in our nation’s capital. I had a blast working with David Robinson (a...

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What Good Are Theologians?
Richard Dawkins has been quoted to me recently as such (without a citation, alas: Can anyone supply it?): “What has theology ever said...

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A Scientist Who Believes in God! That's Real News!
Well, no, it isn’t. But with Francis Collins being named head of the National Institutes of Health by President Obama, a number of media...

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Did Jesus Really Exist?
From time to time I get asked this question–Did Jesus really exist? Recently, a student of mine in a University of Manitoba class more...

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