Christian apologists today typically gather evidences from history or science to make their case. One fourth-century apologist found his evidence in a very different place. — A young North African had convinced one of his best friends to join a cult — but, then, he found a new faith. Convinced that this new faith was the only true faith, he penned a plea to change his friend’s mind. The treatise was entitled On True Religion.

Recently, several atheists have conceded that atheism can’t sustain a thriving social order — which should press us to ask, “Why should anyone regard an unlivable system as true?” — What if atheism isn’t capable of sustaining a social order in which human beings can thrive? Many Christians have argued that atheism lacks this capacity — but, recently, a number of atheists and agnostics have conceded that their commitments are incapable of producing a flourishing social order.

In this thoughtful but lighthearted podcast, Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey examine evidence for Christianity and talk about the greatest hits in the history of rock and roll —

A poetic remix of Ezekiel 33:1–20 — i stand here silent in a field ravished by the fall i see a hermit blinded clinging to the shortest straw one minute til infinity clocks are running down i hear four horsemen thunder and still there’s no trumpet sound and I can taste the blood moon’s light hear the…

How union with Christ opens the door to infinite delight — There is an infinite ache that needles at the hem of every human consciousness. No matter how hard we try to fill our lives with something that satisfies, a vast ditch still yawns between our yearnings and our experiences. Some of us never stop trying to leap across the chasm…

Do human beings actually possess free will? Does God make your choices or do you? Part of the answer depends on how you define “freedom” and “free will.” — There’s a difficult dilemma that may have crossed your mind if you’ve ever read passages like these in the writings of then apostle Paul: Those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers…

How a bizarre medieval tale about a miracle on a communion table evolved into a cultural myth and made its way into the modern mind — I rarely read reviews of anything I write, but I made an exception when a colleague sent me a link to an online review of one of my books. Someone was apparently disappointed with a history of the Bible that I had produced. …

The formation of the New Testament was messier than many Christians seem to think. — For more than a century after the New Testament began to be written, there were differences of opinion about these texts. Unlike the books in the Old Testament, the contents of the New Testament can’t be decisively determined by anything that Jesus declared. That’s because none of the New Testament…

The writings of two second-century church leaders — Papias of Hierapolis and Irenaeus of Lyon — both seem to agree that the Gospel According to Matthew was originally written in the language of the Hebrew people. — “Matthew set sayings in order in a Hebrew dialect,” Papias wrote in the early second century, “and each interpreted them as he was able” (Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica, 3:39). …