Moral Apologetics
2025
2024
Oct 18, 2024
Love Is All You Need: How Love Supports Christian Theism Over Naturalism
Oct 18, 2024
Sep 13, 2024
If God Is the Source of Morality, Would that Mean Morality Is Subjective?
Sep 13, 2024
Aug 12, 2024
Virtues and Public Discourse Panel Series
Aug 12, 2024
Jun 21, 2024
Moral Hide-and-Seek: Addressing Divine Moral Hiddenness Concerns
Jun 21, 2024
Apr 18, 2024
Constructivism and Moral Arguments for God: Exploring the Foundations of Moral Truth
Apr 18, 2024
Apr 5, 2024
The Persuasive Power of the Moral Argument (Podcast ft. David Baggett)
Apr 5, 2024
Mar 28, 2024
The Problem of Evil and the Moral Argument
Mar 28, 2024
Feb 15, 2024
Eighth Theistic Ethics Workshop
Feb 15, 2024
Jan 22, 2024
Why Donald Trump Should Not Be the Republican Nominee
Jan 22, 2024
Jan 1, 2024
Mister Rogers, Countercultural Apologist
Jan 1, 2024
2023
Dec 29, 2023
2023 Top Ten Most Read Articles
Dec 29, 2023
Dec 22, 2023
The Colorado Court Decision: A Test Case for Arguing Well
Dec 22, 2023
Dec 13, 2023
In the Beginning Was the Word
Dec 13, 2023
Dec 6, 2023
Naturalism and Normativity: Cornell Realism - Daniel Bonevac
Dec 6, 2023
Nov 8, 2023
Summary of John Hare’s God's Call (Part 9)
Nov 8, 2023
Oct 18, 2023
Summary of John Hare’s God's Call (Part 8)
Oct 18, 2023
Oct 10, 2023
Summary of John Hare’s God's Call (Part 7)
Oct 10, 2023
Sep 28, 2023
Mailbag: What about Horrendous Evil?
Sep 28, 2023
Sep 26, 2023
Summary of John Hare’s God's Call (Part 6)
Sep 26, 2023
Sep 19, 2023
Summary of John Hare’s God's Call (Part 5)
Sep 19, 2023
Sep 12, 2023
Summary of John Hare’s God's Call (Part 4)
Sep 12, 2023
Sep 7, 2023
Dr. Phil Tallon Outlines the Problem of Evil in 5 minutes
Sep 7, 2023
Sep 5, 2023
Summary of John Hare’s God's Call (Part 3)
Sep 5, 2023
Aug 29, 2023
Summary of John Hare’s God's Call (Part 2)
Aug 29, 2023
Aug 3, 2023
The Paradox of Moral Tolerance: Exposing Normative Relativism's Blind Spot
Aug 3, 2023
Jul 11, 2023
The Inherent Disorder of Social Media Friendships
Jul 11, 2023
Jul 5, 2023
He Appeared to Me
Jul 5, 2023
Jun 21, 2023
Summary of John Hare’s God's Call (Part 1)
Jun 21, 2023
May 31, 2023
Saving Moral Knowledge: A Debunking Argument and Theistic Alternative
May 31, 2023
May 23, 2023
The Beauty of Creation
May 23, 2023
Apr 13, 2023
On Good and Evil: Discussing the Nature and Morality of God (from the Veritas Forum)
Apr 13, 2023
Apr 11, 2023
"Divine Command: Religion and Morality." John Hare, Yale Divinity School
Apr 11, 2023
Apr 4, 2023
Robert Adams: Perfection, Justice, and Love in Leibniz's Theodicy
Apr 4, 2023
Mar 28, 2023
Drs. David and Marybeth Baggett on 'Think About It' (an HCU Podcast)
Mar 28, 2023
Mar 23, 2023
J.P. Moreland: Finding Quiet: Learning to Handle Anxiety [Talbot Chapel]
Mar 23, 2023
Mar 21, 2023
From Reasons to Believe: The Moral Argument: An Interview with Dr. David Baggett
Mar 21, 2023
Jan 24, 2023
Good God, Moral Choice, and the Presence of Evil - Panel Discussion
Jan 24, 2023
Jan 16, 2023
Routledge Companion to C. S. Lewis, CFP
Jan 16, 2023
2022
Dec 15, 2022
Full of Grace and Truth
Dec 15, 2022
Dec 6, 2022
John Oswalt - The Centrality of Holiness
Dec 6, 2022
Nov 15, 2022
Diving Deep into the Moral Argument with Dr. David Baggett
Nov 15, 2022
Nov 8, 2022
Singer and Hare - What is the Source of Morality? - The Veritas Forum
Nov 8, 2022
Nov 1, 2022
Darwinism Can’t Account for Objective Morality
Nov 1, 2022
Oct 27, 2022
Can God Ground Necessary Moral Truths?
Oct 27, 2022
Oct 25, 2022
My Response to William Lane Craig’s Critique of My Divine Love Theory
Oct 25, 2022
Oct 18, 2022
Interview with David Horner: "Apologetics and the task of Evangelization"
Oct 18, 2022
Oct 4, 2022
Are You As Good As You Think?
Oct 4, 2022
Sep 29, 2022
Debate: God & Morality: Craig vs Wielenberg (How to Go Deeper)
Sep 29, 2022
Sep 27, 2022
Thinking Matters Talk: Does Morality Need God? Part One
Sep 27, 2022
Sep 15, 2022
Solving Our Shame: Reflections on C. S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces - Lecture by Dr. David Baggett
Sep 15, 2022
Sep 13, 2022
Mailbag: The Best Argument for Now? A Question about the Abductive Moral Argument
Sep 13, 2022
Aug 3, 2022
Moral Faith and Huntington's Disease: An Interview with Dr. Elton Higgs and Dr. Laquita Higgs
Aug 3, 2022
Jul 1, 2022
Why Apologetics Is Personal: Keeping Human Dignity at the Heart of Defending the Gospel
Jul 1, 2022
Jun 28, 2022
Can Forgiveness Make Sense? (Part 2)
Jun 28, 2022
Jun 28, 2022
Can Forgiveness Make Sense? (Part 1)
Jun 28, 2022
Jun 7, 2022
Mailbag: What about the Cudworth Objection?
Jun 7, 2022
May 31, 2022
What Happened to James?
May 31, 2022
May 27, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Ambivalence of the Cross as Symbol
May 27, 2022
May 17, 2022
Book Recommendation: Christianity and Modern Medicine
May 17, 2022
May 13, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Commonality and Individuality
May 13, 2022
May 11, 2022
Think About It!
May 11, 2022
May 10, 2022
Sweeping Contingency Under the Rug (Part 4)
May 10, 2022
May 4, 2022
Sweeping Contingency Under the Rug (Part 3)
May 4, 2022
Apr 29, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Blood of Christ—Blood of Abel
Apr 29, 2022
Apr 26, 2022
Sweeping Contingency Under the Rug (Part 2)
Apr 26, 2022
Apr 22, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation - The Ever-Renewing Legacy
Apr 22, 2022
Apr 21, 2022
Francis S. Collins as Moral Apologist
Apr 21, 2022
Apr 20, 2022
Sweeping Contingency Under the Rug (Part 1)
Apr 20, 2022
Apr 19, 2022
Mailbag: Are Divine Commands Necessary for Moral Obligations?
Apr 19, 2022
Apr 14, 2022
Ethics, Morals, and Good Friday: A Lesson in Loyalty and Disloyalty
Apr 14, 2022
Apr 12, 2022
How the Moral Outrage Over Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock Points to the Moral Argument for God’s Existence
Apr 12, 2022
Apr 8, 2022
The Advantages of Different Approaches to the Moral Argument
Apr 8, 2022
Apr 7, 2022
Review of Christopher B. Kulp, The Metaphysics of Morality, Part 2
Apr 7, 2022
Apr 6, 2022
Is God Necessary for Morality? Evaluating the Exchange Between Linville and Antony
Apr 6, 2022
Apr 1, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Siblings of the High Priest
Apr 1, 2022
Mar 31, 2022
What Does the Euthyphro Dilemma Reveal about the Moral System of Islam? Part 2
Mar 31, 2022
Mar 30, 2022
Four Reasons Jesus Died
Mar 30, 2022
Mar 29, 2022
Mailbag: "What's a Good Stopping Point?"
Mar 29, 2022
Mar 25, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Sure-Fire Investment
Mar 25, 2022
Mar 23, 2022
The Morality of Force
Mar 23, 2022
Mar 22, 2022
Review of Christopher B. Kulp, The Metaphysics of Morality, Part I
Mar 22, 2022
Mar 18, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation – The Lamb of God
Mar 18, 2022
Mar 17, 2022
What Does the Euthyphro Dilemma Reveal about the Moral System of Islam? Part 1
Mar 17, 2022
Mar 11, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Participating in Eucharist
Mar 11, 2022
Mar 10, 2022
The Case for a Personal God from Morality: Love
Mar 10, 2022
Mar 9, 2022
Moral Insights of C. S. Lewis in Till We Have Faces: Part I
Mar 9, 2022
Mar 2, 2022
Reflections on Why I Left, Why I Stayed, by Tony and Bart Campolo, Part 14
Mar 2, 2022
Feb 25, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation – A Perpetual Covenant
Feb 25, 2022
Feb 23, 2022
Moral Reasoning in the Brain | The Science of Morality
Feb 23, 2022
Feb 22, 2022
Reflections on Why I Left, Why I Stayed, by Tony and Bart Campolo, Part 13
Feb 22, 2022
Feb 18, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Between Heaven and Earth
Feb 18, 2022
Feb 17, 2022
Sometimes Losing is Good
Feb 17, 2022
Feb 16, 2022
Nothing Is Strong
Feb 16, 2022
Feb 14, 2022
When the Machines Take Over… Or Have They Already?
Feb 14, 2022
Feb 11, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Where is the Trinity in the Eucharist?
Feb 11, 2022
Feb 10, 2022
I am Samson (Judges 14)
Feb 10, 2022
Feb 9, 2022
Humans of New York and Philosophy: How to See a Face
Feb 9, 2022
Feb 7, 2022
The Moral Universe of Desmond Doss
Feb 7, 2022
Feb 4, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Suffering with Christ
Feb 4, 2022
Feb 3, 2022
Simply Natural: Three Reasons We Need Natural Theology
Feb 3, 2022
Feb 2, 2022
Reflections on Why I Left, Why I Stayed, by Tony and Bart Campolo, Part 12
Feb 2, 2022
Feb 1, 2022
Should We Believe What Jesus Said?
Feb 1, 2022
Jan 28, 2022
Meditation on the Lord's Supper - The Towel of Humility
Jan 28, 2022
Jan 27, 2022
Are You a Pure Apologist?
Jan 27, 2022
Jan 26, 2022
Reflections on Why I Left, Why I Stayed, by Tony and Bart Campolo, Part 11
Jan 26, 2022
Jan 24, 2022
Podcast: Are the Holy Really Happy? Exploring the Moral Argument with David Baggett
Jan 24, 2022
Jan 21, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Ongoing and Once for All
Jan 21, 2022
Jan 20, 2022
Do You Follow?
Jan 20, 2022
Jan 19, 2022
The Case for a Personal God from Morality: Guilt
Jan 19, 2022
Jan 14, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Symbolism of the Lord’s Supper
Jan 14, 2022
Jan 13, 2022
Why? Apologetics, Moral Apologetics, and You
Jan 13, 2022
Jan 12, 2022
Reflections on Why I Left, Why I Stayed, by Tony and Bart Campolo, Part 10
Jan 12, 2022
Jan 11, 2022
The Dark Factor of Personality | The Science of Morality
Jan 11, 2022
Jan 10, 2022
The Case That Our Moral Knowledge Points Toward God: Part 4
Jan 10, 2022
Jan 7, 2022
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Renewal of Vows
Jan 7, 2022
Jan 6, 2022
Models of Oral Tradition and the Ethics Behind Accurate Transmission
Jan 6, 2022
Jan 5, 2022
Reflections on Why I Left, Why I Stayed, by Tony and Bart Campolo, Part 9
Jan 5, 2022
Jan 4, 2022
Squid Game as Anti-Gospel Lecture Series
Jan 4, 2022
Jan 3, 2022
$50,000 Matching Fundraising Campaign
Jan 3, 2022
Jan 3, 2022
The Case That Our Moral Knowledge Points Toward God: Part 3
Jan 3, 2022
2021
Dec 31, 2021
Lord's Supper Meditation - Subjects Together of Christ the King
Dec 31, 2021
Dec 30, 2021
Resolved: Grow in Moral and Theological Virtue
Dec 30, 2021
Dec 29, 2021
Top Ten Articles for 2021
Dec 29, 2021
Dec 27, 2021
The Case That Our Moral Knowledge Points Toward God: Part 2
Dec 27, 2021
Dec 25, 2021
Be Like Mary
Dec 25, 2021
Dec 24, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Judas Takes the Bread
Dec 24, 2021
Dec 22, 2021
Reflections on Why I Left, Why I Stayed, by Tony and Bart Campolo, Part 8
Dec 22, 2021
Dec 20, 2021
The Case That Our Moral Knowledge Points Toward God: Part 1
Dec 20, 2021
Dec 13, 2021
The Case for a Personal God from Morality: Justice
Dec 13, 2021
Dec 10, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Two Kinds of Suffering
Dec 10, 2021
Dec 8, 2021
Reflections on Why I Left, Why I Stayed, by Tony and Bart Campolo, Part 7
Dec 8, 2021
Dec 7, 2021
A Word from St. Nicholas
Dec 7, 2021
Dec 6, 2021
The Incarnation's Appeal to Humility (Part 2)
Dec 6, 2021
Dec 3, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Reconciled with One Another
Dec 3, 2021
Dec 2, 2021
Book Recommendation: Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't: The Beauty of Christian Theism
Dec 2, 2021
Dec 1, 2021
Reflections on Why I Left, Why I Stayed, by Tony and Bart Campolo, Part 6
Dec 1, 2021
Nov 30, 2021
The Last Place
Nov 30, 2021
Nov 29, 2021
The Incarnation's Appeal to Humility
Nov 29, 2021
Nov 26, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation - Recognizing Jesus
Nov 26, 2021
Nov 25, 2021
5 Reasons Every Apologist Should Be Confident and Grateful
Nov 25, 2021
Nov 24, 2021
Giving Thanks – An Argument for God from Gratitude
Nov 24, 2021
Nov 19, 2021
Communion Meditation – The Reality of Jesus, Then and Now
Nov 19, 2021
Nov 17, 2021
Reflections on Why I Left, Why I Stayed, by Tony and Bart Campolo, Part 5
Nov 17, 2021
Nov 11, 2021
According to His Righteousness
Nov 11, 2021
Nov 10, 2021
In His Image: How Man is Designed to Legislate Morality
Nov 10, 2021
Nov 5, 2021
Meditation on the Lord's Supper: God’s Insurance Policy
Nov 5, 2021
Nov 4, 2021
I am Samson (Judges 14)
Nov 4, 2021
Nov 3, 2021
Reflections on Why I Left, Why I Stayed, by Tony and Bart Campolo, Part 4
Nov 3, 2021
Nov 1, 2021
KLAVAN: Why I Left Judaism for Christianity
Nov 1, 2021
Oct 29, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation: Outside the Camp with Jesus (Heb. 13:11-15)
Oct 29, 2021
Oct 27, 2021
Empathy and the Sermon on the Mount: The Foundation for Christian Ethics
Oct 27, 2021
Oct 25, 2021
A Dozen Moral Arguments
Oct 25, 2021
Oct 22, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation: One Body
Oct 22, 2021
Oct 18, 2021
God & Moral Motivation (Dr. Anne Jeffrey)
Oct 18, 2021
Oct 15, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation: Not Merely a Teacher
Oct 15, 2021
Oct 13, 2021
Petrine Apologetics: 4 Things You Didn’t Know About 1 Peter 3:15
Oct 13, 2021
Oct 13, 2021
Reflections on Why I Left, Why I Stayed, by Tony and Bart Campolo, Part 3
Oct 13, 2021
Oct 11, 2021
Defusing the Euthyphro Dilemma
Oct 11, 2021
Oct 8, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation – True Bread from Heaven
Oct 8, 2021
Oct 6, 2021
Reflections on Why I Left, Why I Stayed, by Tony and Bart Campolo, Part 2
Oct 6, 2021
Oct 4, 2021
A Trinitarian Moral Argument: Why Christianity’s Trinitarian God is a Better Explanation for Objective Morality than Islam’s Non-Trinitarian God
Oct 4, 2021
Sep 29, 2021
Response #1 to Why I Left, Why I Stayed, by Tony and Bart Campolo
Sep 29, 2021
Sep 28, 2021
John Wesley’s Theological Framework of Authority and the Enlightenment
Sep 28, 2021
Sep 27, 2021
The Paranormal Evidence for Morality
Sep 27, 2021
Sep 24, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Jesus’ Unique Cup
Sep 24, 2021
Sep 22, 2021
One Good Reason to Believe in the Bible: Guilt (and man’s attempts to avoid it)
Sep 22, 2021
Sep 20, 2021
Can a Divine command theory account for the objectivity of moral requirements? Brink and Appraiser Independence
Sep 20, 2021
Sep 17, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Jesus as Host
Sep 17, 2021
Sep 16, 2021
Necessary Joy: The Relationship between Anselm’s Ontological Argument and “Fullness of Joy” (Part 2)
Sep 16, 2021
Sep 15, 2021
“Christians Are Hypocrites” Objection: A Response
Sep 15, 2021
Sep 13, 2021
Does Darwall’s Morality of Accountability Require Moral Realism? (And Would It Be Strengthened by Adding God to the Story?)
Sep 13, 2021
Sep 9, 2021
Necessary Joy: The Relationship between Anselm’s Ontological Argument and “Fullness of Joy” (Part 1)
Sep 9, 2021
Sep 8, 2021
Book Recommendation: Truth About God: What Can We Know and How Can We Know It?
Sep 8, 2021
Sep 8, 2021
No, Wormwood, Empathy is Not a Sin
Sep 8, 2021
Sep 3, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Jesus and Obedience
Sep 3, 2021
Aug 30, 2021
The Moral Argument for God’s Existence
Aug 30, 2021
Aug 25, 2021
A Surprising Hope: Review of When Narcissism Comes to Church by Chuck DeGroat
Aug 25, 2021
Aug 23, 2021
Does the Incommensurability of Prudential and Impartial rationality avoid the dualism of Practical Reason?
Aug 23, 2021
Aug 20, 2021
Lord's Supper Meditation: Holy Boasting
Aug 20, 2021
Aug 19, 2021
Forsaken: An open letter to American military veterans as Afghanistan falls
Aug 19, 2021
Aug 18, 2021
Book Review of Wade Mullen’s Something’s Not Right: Decoding the Hidden Tactics of Abuse and Freeing Yourself from Its Power
Aug 18, 2021
Aug 16, 2021
What Makes Something Morally Good or Bad? Why a Trinitarian Metaethic Better Explains Morality (Part 5)
Aug 16, 2021
Aug 9, 2021
What Makes Something Morally Good or Bad? Adam Lloyd Johnson’s Trinitarian Moral Theory (Part 4)
Aug 9, 2021
Aug 6, 2021
Meditation on Lord's Supper: The Glory of His Appearing
Aug 6, 2021
Aug 5, 2021
The Deeper Source of Religion: Passional Reason in William James’s Writings
Aug 5, 2021
Aug 4, 2021
Shame, Deserved and Undeserved
Aug 4, 2021
Aug 2, 2021
What Makes Something Morally Good or Bad? Natural Law vs. Divine Command Theory (Part 3)
Aug 2, 2021
Jul 30, 2021
Lord's Supper Meditation: Death and Renewal
Jul 30, 2021
Jul 29, 2021
Living HOPE: Pastoral Counseling and the Resurrection of Jesus
Jul 29, 2021
Jul 28, 2021
Loki and the Locus of Identity
Jul 28, 2021
Jul 27, 2021
Natural Theology | Dictionary of Moral Apologetics
Jul 27, 2021
Jul 26, 2021
Making Sense of Morality: Objections from Euthyphro and Evil
Jul 26, 2021
Jul 23, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation: God’s Eternal “Now”
Jul 23, 2021
Jul 21, 2021
My Dear Apologist, Please Be Holy.
Jul 21, 2021
Jul 19, 2021
Loki and the Problem of Determinism
Jul 19, 2021
Jul 16, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation: Frequency of the Lord’s Supper
Jul 16, 2021
Jul 15, 2021
One Good Reason to Believe in God: The Intrinsic Value of His Image (and Man’s Attempt to Escape It)
Jul 15, 2021
Jul 14, 2021
What Makes Something Morally Good or Bad? Erik Wielenberg’s Theory (Part 2)
Jul 14, 2021
Jul 12, 2021
Making Sense of Morality: Where Do We Go from Here?
Jul 12, 2021
Jul 9, 2021
What Makes Something Morally Good or Bad? Introduction to Metaethics (Part 1)
Jul 9, 2021
Jul 7, 2021
Mormonism and the Moral Argument
Jul 7, 2021
Jul 2, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation: Frailty and Fruitfulness
Jul 2, 2021
Jun 30, 2021
The Most Shocking Truth Learned about God's Love in Chaplaincy Ministry
Jun 30, 2021
Jun 28, 2021
Making Sense of Morality: A Brief Assessment of MacIntyre’s Ethics
Jun 28, 2021
Jun 25, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Fish and Bread with Jesus
Jun 25, 2021
Jun 23, 2021
Healing from Institutional Abuse
Jun 23, 2021
Jun 21, 2021
Making Sense of Morality: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Ethics
Jun 21, 2021
Jun 18, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Exchange of Natures
Jun 18, 2021
Jun 16, 2021
The Moral Argument as a Scientifically-Minded Approach to Understanding God
Jun 16, 2021
Jun 11, 2021
Meditation on the Lord’s Supper – Drinking the Blood
Jun 11, 2021
Jun 9, 2021
A Critical Review of Is Goodness without God Good Enough?
Jun 9, 2021
Jun 8, 2021
Editor's Recommendation: Human Freedom, Divine Knowledge, and Mere Molinism by Tim Stratton
Jun 8, 2021
Jun 7, 2021
Making Sense of Morality: An Introduction to Postmodernism
Jun 7, 2021
Jun 4, 2021
Lord's Supper Meditation: The Real Presence of Christ
Jun 4, 2021
Jun 2, 2021
Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Part IV
Jun 2, 2021
May 28, 2021
Communion Meditation: Drinking the Cup Anew
May 28, 2021
May 26, 2021
Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Part 3
May 26, 2021
May 24, 2021
Why God May Place More on Us Than We Can Endure
May 24, 2021
May 21, 2021
Lord’s Supper Meditation: Divine Food
May 21, 2021
May 19, 2021
Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Part 2
May 19, 2021
2020
Dec 30, 2020
In Memory of Storm Baggett (July 8, 2002 – December 26, 2020)
Dec 30, 2020
Dec 28, 2020
Making Sense of Morality: Hume’s Ethics
Dec 28, 2020
Dec 21, 2020
Making Sense of Morality: Hobbes
Dec 21, 2020
Dec 16, 2020
Peace on Earth…
Dec 16, 2020
Dec 14, 2020
Making Sense of Morality: Shifts from the Scientific Revolution
Dec 14, 2020
Dec 9, 2020
Good God: Interview with David Baggett
Dec 9, 2020
Dec 7, 2020
Making Sense of Morality: Islamic Ethics
Dec 7, 2020
Nov 30, 2020
Making Sense of Morality: Plato and Aristotle
Nov 30, 2020
Nov 18, 2020
Enduring Loss and the Hope of Glory
Nov 18, 2020
Nov 16, 2020
Making Sense of Morality: Judeo-Christian Ethics
Nov 16, 2020
Nov 11, 2020
4 Thoughts on Responding to Tragedy, Pain, and Suffering
Nov 11, 2020
Nov 9, 2020
Making Sense of Morality: Introduction
Nov 9, 2020
Nov 6, 2020
The Simpsons, the Talmud, and Divine Command Theory
Nov 6, 2020
Oct 30, 2020
The Second Phase of My Involvement in CASL Administration: Twilight Musing Autobiography (Part 23)
Oct 30, 2020
Oct 28, 2020
Let Not Your Heart
Oct 28, 2020
Oct 26, 2020
Moral Apologetics and Biography, Part III
Oct 26, 2020
Oct 23, 2020
The Necessity of a Cosmic Mind
Oct 23, 2020
Oct 19, 2020
Moral Apologetics and Biography, Part II
Oct 19, 2020
Oct 16, 2020
Fatherlessness and Incarceration
Oct 16, 2020
Oct 15, 2020
Editor's Recommendation: Reimagining Apologetics by Justin Bailey
Oct 15, 2020
Oct 9, 2020
Hope Among the Graves
Oct 9, 2020
Sep 25, 2020
Dean for a Year: Twilight Musing Autobiography (Part 22)
Sep 25, 2020
Sep 21, 2020
Moral Apologetics and Biography, Part I
Sep 21, 2020
Sep 14, 2020
The Withered Hand
Sep 14, 2020
Sep 11, 2020
My Thrilling First Sabbatical Leave Abroad (2) (Part 21)
Sep 11, 2020
Sep 9, 2020
The Paradox of Preservation
Sep 9, 2020
Aug 31, 2020
My Dear Apologist: Please, Be Patient.
Aug 31, 2020
Aug 28, 2020
My Thrilling First Sabbatical Leave Abroad (1) (Part 20)
Aug 28, 2020
Aug 19, 2020
My Dear Apologist: Please, Be Kind.
Aug 19, 2020
Aug 17, 2020
4 Popular Objections to Theistic Ethics
Aug 17, 2020
Aug 14, 2020
Campus Expansion and Sabbatical Plans (Part 19)
Aug 14, 2020
Aug 12, 2020
My Dear Apologist: Please, Be Yourself.
Aug 12, 2020
Aug 10, 2020
Socrates and Jesus on Allegiances
Aug 10, 2020
Aug 5, 2020
Moral Apologetics 101: Ethical Theory and Moral Realism
Aug 5, 2020
Aug 3, 2020
God is Light
Aug 3, 2020
Jul 31, 2020
Growing Our Family and Our Cultural Outlook In Dearborn and Detroit (Part 18)
Jul 31, 2020
Jul 29, 2020
Editor's Recommendation: Telling a Better Story by Josh Chatraw
Jul 29, 2020
Jul 24, 2020
The Pre-Expansion Years at UM-Dearborn, 1965-1971 (Part 17)
Jul 24, 2020
Jul 17, 2020
Arrival at UM-Dearborn, Summer 1965 (Part 16)
Jul 17, 2020
Jul 15, 2020
The Morality of Mystery
Jul 15, 2020
Jul 13, 2020
An Argument for God’s Existence from Gardening
Jul 13, 2020
Jul 3, 2020
On to Finish the Ph.D at Pitt (Part 15)
Jul 3, 2020
Jun 29, 2020
New Developments in Moral Apologetics: Kevin Richard
Jun 29, 2020
Jun 26, 2020
The Cathedral of Learning and Lasting Friends: Pittsburgh, PA (Part 14)
Jun 26, 2020
Jun 24, 2020
Right Life, Happy Life: Insights from Belgravia
Jun 24, 2020
Jun 22, 2020
Assessing Evolutionary Debunking Arguments (Crash Course Apologetics Interview with Dr. Tomas Bogardus)
Jun 22, 2020
Jun 17, 2020
PSYCHONIX: Mind Over Matter (Book Review)
Jun 17, 2020
Jun 15, 2020
New Developments in Moral Apologetics, Part 5
Jun 15, 2020
Jun 12, 2020
Beginning the Graduate School Adventure (Part 13)
Jun 12, 2020
Jun 10, 2020
Introducing a Thomist Moral Argument
Jun 10, 2020
Jun 5, 2020
Holy Fear
Jun 5, 2020
Jun 3, 2020
New Developments in Moral Apologetics, Part 4
Jun 3, 2020
Jun 1, 2020
What Can Christians Say about the Pandemic? A Response to Rosaria Butterfield
Jun 1, 2020
May 29, 2020
More Undergraduate and Early Marriage Experiences (Part 12)
May 29, 2020
May 15, 2020
The Next Step in College and Courtship: Marriage! Twilight Musings Autobiography (Part 11)
May 15, 2020
May 13, 2020
Mailbag: Which Books on the Moral Argument Do You Recommend?
May 13, 2020
May 11, 2020
Mailbag: How do you define the good?
May 11, 2020
May 8, 2020
Recent Work on the Moral Argument, Part 3
May 8, 2020
Apr 20, 2020
Recent Work on the Moral Argument, Part II
Apr 20, 2020
Apr 17, 2020
Matriculation at Abilene Christian College (1957): Twilight Musings Autobiography (Part 10)
Apr 17, 2020
Apr 15, 2020
Critiquing Arguments for Moral Nihilism
Apr 15, 2020
Apr 13, 2020
Why God's Triune Nature is the Foundation of Morality
Apr 13, 2020
Apr 10, 2020
Easter and Ecclesiology
Apr 10, 2020
Apr 8, 2020
Lewis and Tolkien on True Fairy-Stories
Apr 8, 2020
Apr 6, 2020
Critiquing Dr. Eric Wielenberg's Metaethical Model (Interview with Adam Johnson)
Apr 6, 2020
Apr 3, 2020
My Summer of (Attempted) Bible-selling: Twilight Musings Autobiography (Part 9)
Apr 3, 2020
Mar 30, 2020
Mailbag: Could God Make Torturing Children Good?
Mar 30, 2020
Mar 27, 2020
Leaning on God’s Staff
Mar 27, 2020
Mar 16, 2020
In Love with the Word: A Charge to Christian Literary Critics
Mar 16, 2020
Mar 11, 2020
New Developments in Moral Apologetics, Part I
Mar 11, 2020
Mar 9, 2020
A NEW Moral Argument for the Christian God
Mar 9, 2020
Mar 4, 2020
Waiting
Mar 4, 2020
Feb 28, 2020
My Short Career as a Radio Announcer: Twilight Musings Autobiography (Part 8)
Feb 28, 2020
Feb 26, 2020
The Divine Council, Cosmic Conflict, and the Problem of Evil (Interview with Dr. John Peckham)
Feb 26, 2020
Feb 17, 2020
A Case for Objective Moral Facts (Interview with Dr. Terence Cuneo)
Feb 17, 2020
Feb 14, 2020
Problems in Value Theory An Introduction to Contemporary Debates: Matt Flannagan's Chapter with Graham Oppy is finally published
Feb 14, 2020
Feb 12, 2020
An Abductive Moral Argument for a Good God (Interview with Dr. David Baggett)
Feb 12, 2020
Feb 7, 2020
How Do You Like Them Ethics?
Feb 7, 2020
Feb 5, 2020
Divine Command Theory: Answering Classic and Contemporary Objections (Interview with Matthew Flannagan)
Feb 5, 2020
Jan 31, 2020
Book Review: Why I Still Believe by Mary Jo Sharp
Jan 31, 2020
Jan 27, 2020
Editor's Recommendation: Pulpit Apologetics by Thomas J. Gentry
Jan 27, 2020
Jan 24, 2020
"If Only To Appear Worthy of It”: A Christian Contemplation of Nietzsche’s New Image of Man (Part 2)
Jan 24, 2020
Jan 20, 2020
Lord of the Dance: Dionysian Aspects of the Christian Experience (Part 2)
Jan 20, 2020
Jan 17, 2020
"If Only To Appear Worthy of It”: A Christian Contemplation of Nietzsche’s New Image of Man (Part 1)
Jan 17, 2020
Jan 15, 2020
Snow White, the Seven Dwarfs, and Simplifying the Abortion Debate with One Question
Jan 15, 2020
Jan 13, 2020
Lord of the Dance: Dionysian Aspects of the Christian Experience (Part 1)
Jan 13, 2020
2019
Dec 27, 2019
Top Ten Posts for 2019
Dec 27, 2019
Dec 23, 2019
Seed-planting and Fruit Bearing
Dec 23, 2019
Dec 9, 2019
Good King Wenceslas: An Allegory of Advent
Dec 9, 2019
Dec 4, 2019
Editor's Recommendation: The Layman’s Manual on Christian Apologetics by Brian Chilton
Dec 4, 2019
Nov 27, 2019
Gratitude, Thankfulness, and the Existence of God
Nov 27, 2019
Nov 6, 2019
Editor's Recommendation: Doing What's Right by Gooding and Lennox
Nov 6, 2019
Oct 30, 2019
Editor's Recommendation: Theodicy of Love by John Peckham
Oct 30, 2019
Oct 23, 2019
Editor's Recommendation: Stan Key's Journey to Spiritual Wholeness
Oct 23, 2019
Oct 21, 2019
A Few Reflections on Schopenhauer
Oct 21, 2019
Oct 18, 2019
Personal Ecclesiastical History (childhood into adolescence): Twilight Musings Autobiography (Part 7)
Oct 18, 2019
Oct 14, 2019
Ecological Apologetics
Oct 14, 2019
Oct 9, 2019
The Psychopath Objection to Divine Command Theory: Another Response to Erik Wielenberg (Part One)
Oct 9, 2019
Oct 7, 2019
Why We Boldly Go: Moral Truth in Science Fiction
Oct 7, 2019
Sep 30, 2019
Editor's Recomendation: How Reason Can Lead to God
Sep 30, 2019
Sep 27, 2019
My year in Small-town Rule High School: Twilight Musings Autobiography (Part 6)
Sep 27, 2019
Sep 25, 2019
Fred Will Watch the Time
Sep 25, 2019
Sep 23, 2019
Urban Legends of the Old Testament: Radical Islam Has Inherited Ishmael’s Violent Spirit (Genesis 16:12)
Sep 23, 2019
Sep 18, 2019
John Wesley: Brand Plucked from the Burning
Sep 18, 2019
Sep 16, 2019
Editor's Recommendation: Now You See Her by Mark Harris
Sep 16, 2019
Sep 11, 2019
Evil in the Book of Job
Sep 11, 2019
Sep 6, 2019
Jr. and Sr. High School: Twilight Musings Autobiography (Part 5)
Sep 6, 2019
Sep 4, 2019
Mister Rogers on Faithfulness in Little Things
Sep 4, 2019
Sep 2, 2019
Editor's Recommendation: The Doctrine of God by John C. Peckham
Sep 2, 2019
Aug 30, 2019
Early Difficulties Translated into Valuable Lessons: Twilight Musings Autobiography (Part 4)
Aug 30, 2019
Aug 28, 2019
Editor's Recommendation: Worldviews and the Problem of Evil
Aug 28, 2019
Aug 26, 2019
Mister Rogers’ Antidote to the Spirit of Party
Aug 26, 2019
Aug 21, 2019
Editor's Recommendation: C.S. Lewis and the Art of Writing
Aug 21, 2019
Aug 19, 2019
No Longer in Glimpses: In Memory of My Mother Joan F. Decker
Aug 19, 2019
Aug 14, 2019
Editor's Recommendation: Cultural Apologetics by Paul Gould
Aug 14, 2019
Aug 12, 2019
Made in the Image of God
Aug 12, 2019
Aug 9, 2019
The Early Years, From Gutter Sandpile to First Grade: Twilight Musings Autobiography (Part 3)
Aug 9, 2019
Aug 7, 2019
Adoption, the Children of God, and the Spirit of Supererogation
Aug 7, 2019
Aug 5, 2019
Letter from Henri to Fred
Aug 5, 2019
Jul 19, 2019
Assessing One’s Parents: Twilight Musings Autobiography (Part 2)
Jul 19, 2019
Jul 15, 2019
In Defense of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead: A Response to Jessica Hooten Wilson
Jul 15, 2019
Jun 28, 2019
My Family: Twilight Musings Autobiography (Part 1)
Jun 28, 2019
Jun 26, 2019
Can We Know Anything about the Historical Jesus?
Jun 26, 2019
Jun 21, 2019
Be a Zombie for Christ!
Jun 21, 2019
Jun 14, 2019
On Sin as a Corruption of Language
Jun 14, 2019
May 31, 2019
Holy Fear
May 31, 2019
May 29, 2019
Book Review: What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense
May 29, 2019
May 24, 2019
Cardio-Circumcision
May 24, 2019
May 10, 2019
Take Heart, Be of Good Courage
May 10, 2019
May 1, 2019
Urban Legends of the Old Testament: God Created Evil
May 1, 2019
Apr 26, 2019
Interview with Paul Gould
Apr 26, 2019
Apr 21, 2019
9 Evidences for the Resurrection of Jesus
Apr 21, 2019
Apr 17, 2019
Help is Come!
Apr 17, 2019
Apr 15, 2019
Gracious Forbearance
Apr 15, 2019
Apr 10, 2019
Risen from the Dead? A Sample Sermon Manuscript for Apologetic Preaching
Apr 10, 2019
Apr 1, 2019
The Spirit of Party and a Few Simple Rules of Political Discourse
Apr 1, 2019
Mar 27, 2019
If God, Why Evil?: A Sample Sermon Manuscript for Apologetic Preaching
Mar 27, 2019
Mar 25, 2019
Mailbag: The Best Progressive Arguments for the Acceptance of Homosexuality and a Traditionalist Response
Mar 25, 2019
Mar 22, 2019
Mailbag: Why Would God Harden Pharaoh's Heart?
Mar 22, 2019
Mar 20, 2019
A Model for Apologetic Preaching
Mar 20, 2019
Mar 18, 2019
An Experiment in Poetry: Billy Collins Treats Us to Whimsy
Mar 18, 2019
Mar 15, 2019
A Twilight Musing: The Education of Jonah
Mar 15, 2019
Mar 13, 2019
Making the Case: Apologetic Preaching and Abductive Argumentation
Mar 13, 2019
Mar 11, 2019
An Experiment in Poetry: William Shakespeare Refines the Sonnet Form
Mar 11, 2019
Mar 4, 2019
An Experiment in Poetry: Seamus Heaney Echoes Ireland’s Gaelic Past
Mar 4, 2019
Mar 1, 2019
The Sad Career of Lot
Mar 1, 2019
Feb 27, 2019
Equipping the Saints: Apologetic Preaching as Discipleship
Feb 27, 2019
Feb 25, 2019
An Experiment in Poetry: Sharon Olds Weaves Poetry from Suffering
Feb 25, 2019
Feb 22, 2019
Why Write an Autobiography
Feb 22, 2019
Feb 21, 2019
Love ~ A Five Letter Word
Feb 21, 2019
Feb 20, 2019
A Reasonable Witness: Apologetic Preaching as Evangelism
Feb 20, 2019
Feb 18, 2019
An Experiment in Poetry: Scott Cairns Leaves Us No Place to Hide
Feb 18, 2019
Feb 15, 2019
Finding God in the Darkness: What I Learned in the Hospital
Feb 15, 2019
Feb 13, 2019
The Special Relationship between Preaching and Moral Apologetics
Feb 13, 2019
Feb 11, 2019
An Experiment in Poetry: Alfred, Lord Tennyson Composes Touchstones for Mourning and Hope
Feb 11, 2019
Feb 8, 2019
Cain
Feb 8, 2019
Feb 6, 2019
Lighten Our Darkness
Feb 6, 2019
Feb 4, 2019
An Experiment in Poetry: Gerard Manley Hopkins Marries Thought to Feeling
Feb 4, 2019
Feb 1, 2019
Three Ways that Apologetics Helps Preaching
Feb 1, 2019
Jan 30, 2019
Urban Legends of the Old Testament: Imprecatory Psalms Are Horrible Models for Christian Prayer (Psalm 109)
Jan 30, 2019
Jan 28, 2019
An Experiment in Poetry: Patrick Kavanagh Grapples with the Challenge of Being Human
Jan 28, 2019
Jan 25, 2019
Preaching and Apologetics?
Jan 25, 2019
Jan 24, 2019
The Good Place, Morality, and the Afterlife
Jan 24, 2019
Jan 18, 2019
C. S. Lewis and 8 Reasons for Believing in Objective Morality
Jan 18, 2019
Jan 16, 2019
Mailbag: Does Christianity Fail as a Moral Guide?
Jan 16, 2019
Jan 14, 2019
An Experiment in Poetry: Malcolm Guite Illuminates Reality's Dark Corners
Jan 14, 2019
Jan 9, 2019
Mailbag: Does the Moral Argument Have a Fatal Flaw?
Jan 9, 2019
Jan 7, 2019
An Experiment in Poetry: Margaret Avison Invites Us to Wonder
Jan 7, 2019
Jan 4, 2019
Memorial for Francesca Josephine Baggett (2003-2018)
Jan 4, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Top Ten Most Popular Posts for 2018
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 1, 2019
Three Poems on the New Year: Perspectives on Time
Jan 1, 2019
2018
Dec 31, 2018
An Experiment in Poetry: Celebrating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful
Dec 31, 2018
Dec 24, 2018
“Christ in you, the hope of glory”: Three Poems on the Incarnation
Dec 24, 2018
Dec 21, 2018
Mailbag: Thoughts on Saving the World
Dec 21, 2018
Dec 14, 2018
The Morals of the Story: Award of Merit from Christianity Today
Dec 14, 2018
Nov 17, 2018
The Morals of the Story: IVP Readers' Choice Finalist!
Nov 17, 2018
Oct 31, 2018
Train Up Your Wizards in the Way They Should Go (Part III)
Oct 31, 2018
Oct 29, 2018
Train Up Your Wizards in the Way They Should Go (Part II)
Oct 29, 2018
Oct 24, 2018
Train Up Your Wizards in the Way They Should Go (Part 1)
Oct 24, 2018
Oct 7, 2018
The Goodness of God after the Loss of My Son
Oct 7, 2018
Oct 3, 2018
Mailbag: Some Questions on Satan, Free Will, and the Nature of Evil
Oct 3, 2018
Sep 19, 2018
Suffering: Richard Dawkins Contra Jesus
Sep 19, 2018
Aug 20, 2018
Mailbag: Concerns about the Nature of Moral Obligations
Aug 20, 2018
Aug 13, 2018
Interview with David Baggett
Aug 13, 2018
Aug 1, 2018
More Than Mere Morality
Aug 1, 2018
Jul 30, 2018
Human Value and the Abductive Moral Argument (Part 1)
Jul 30, 2018
Jul 16, 2018
Reading Literature through the Eyes of C. S. Lewis, Part 6
Jul 16, 2018
Jul 13, 2018
The Faithful Witness of Fred Rogers
Jul 13, 2018
Jul 9, 2018
Reading Literature through the Eyes of C. S. Lewis, Part 5
Jul 9, 2018
Jul 6, 2018
On The Third Option to the Euthyphro Dilemma: A Reply to Real Atheology
Jul 6, 2018
Jul 5, 2018
Mailbag: Can God Have Moral Reasons for Divine Commands?
Jul 5, 2018
Jul 2, 2018
Reading Literature through the Eyes of C. S. Lewis, Part 4
Jul 2, 2018
Jun 25, 2018
Reading Literature through the Eyes of C. S. Lewis, Part 3
Jun 25, 2018
Jun 18, 2018
Reading Literature through the Eyes of C. S. Lewis, Part 2
Jun 18, 2018
Jun 13, 2018
Now May the God of Hope…. The Biblical Obligation to Hope in Suffering, Part II
Jun 13, 2018
Jun 11, 2018
Reading Literature through the Eyes of C. S. Lewis, Part 1
Jun 11, 2018
Jun 6, 2018
Now May the God of Hope…. The Biblical Obligation to Hope in Suffering, Part I
Jun 6, 2018
May 30, 2018
Fear of Giants, or Faith in God?
May 30, 2018
May 29, 2018
Objective Morality, the Nature of Guilt, and God’s Offer of Divine Forgiveness And Promise of Moral Transformation: A New Look at C. S. Lewis’s Moral Argument (Part 2)
May 29, 2018
May 23, 2018
Objective Morality, the Nature of Guilt, and God’s Offer of Divine Forgiveness And Promise of Moral Transformation: A New Look at C. S. Lewis’s Moral Argument
May 23, 2018
May 21, 2018
Insights of C. S. Lewis Concerning Faith, Doubt, Pride, Corrupted Love, And Dying to Oneself in Till We Have Faces (Part 2)
May 21, 2018
May 14, 2018
Insights of C. S. Lewis Concerning Faith, Doubt, Pride, Corrupted Love, And Dying to Oneself in Till We Have Faces (Part 1)
May 14, 2018
May 7, 2018
Ravi Zacharias' Foreword to The Morals of the Story
May 7, 2018
Apr 27, 2018
Dead but not Deaf
Apr 27, 2018
Apr 13, 2018
John Hare’s God’s Command, “Summary” (Final Chapter)
Apr 13, 2018
Apr 6, 2018
John Hare’s God’s Command, 8.5, “Transcending our Evolutionary Situation with God”
Apr 6, 2018
Apr 2, 2018
What Needs Explanation
Apr 2, 2018
Apr 1, 2018
The Always Scandalous Cross
Apr 1, 2018
Mar 26, 2018
Matt Dillahunty, David Baggett Discuss an Abductive Moral Argument
Mar 26, 2018
Mar 14, 2018
Wonder Bread
Mar 14, 2018
Mar 9, 2018
John Hare’s God’s Command, 8.4.2, “Philip Kitcher”
Mar 9, 2018
Mar 2, 2018
John Hare’s God’s Command, 8.4, "Transcending our Evolutionary Situation without God"
Mar 2, 2018
Feb 23, 2018
John Hare’s God’s Command, 8.3.4, “Paul Bloom”
Feb 23, 2018
Feb 16, 2018
John Hare’s God’s Command, 8.3.3, “Sharon Street”
Feb 16, 2018
Feb 2, 2018
John Hare’s God’s Command, 8.3.2, “Michael Ruse”
Feb 2, 2018
Jan 24, 2018
United or Untied?
Jan 24, 2018
Jan 19, 2018
John Hare’s God’s Command, 8.3.1, "Evolution and Anti-Realism"
Jan 19, 2018
Jan 12, 2018
John Hare’s God’s Command, 8.2, “Evolution and Reducing the Moral Demand”
Jan 12, 2018
Jan 8, 2018
Goodness
Jan 8, 2018
Jan 5, 2018
John Hare’s God’s Command, 8.1, “The Story”
Jan 5, 2018
Jan 1, 2018
The Bible, Same-Sex Sexual Activity, and the Parameters for Flourishing
Jan 1, 2018
2017
Dec 29, 2017
Top 10 Posts for 2017
Dec 29, 2017
Dec 25, 2017
Incarnation: The Intersection of Two Universes
Dec 25, 2017
Dec 22, 2017
Social Media, Immanuel Kant, and the Church
Dec 22, 2017
Dec 20, 2017
Podcast: Emily Heady on the Christian Worldview, Ethics, and A Christmas Carol
Dec 20, 2017
Dec 15, 2017
Response to Chapter 15 of Russ Shafer-Landau’s book Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? “Does Ethical Objectivity Require God?” Part IX
Dec 15, 2017
Dec 13, 2017
Jack Reacher, Superheroes, and Jesus Christ
Dec 13, 2017
Dec 11, 2017
Response to Chapter 15 of Russ Shafer-Landau’s book Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? “Does Ethical Objectivity Require God?” Part VIII
Dec 11, 2017
Dec 8, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 7.2 “Novak”
Dec 8, 2017
Dec 4, 2017
Response to Chapter 15 of Russ Shafer-Landau’s book Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? “Does Ethical Objectivity Require God?” Part VII
Dec 4, 2017
Dec 1, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 6.1.3, “Al-Maturidi”
Dec 1, 2017
Dec 1, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 7.3 "Rosenzweig"
Dec 1, 2017
Nov 29, 2017
Jerry before Seinfeld: Delightfully Distinct
Nov 29, 2017
Nov 27, 2017
Response to Chapter 15 of Russ Shafer-Landau’s book Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? “Does Ethical Objectivity Require God?” Part V
Nov 27, 2017
Nov 20, 2017
Response to Chapter 15 of Russ Shafer-Landau’s book Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? “Does Ethical Objectivity Require God?” Part VI
Nov 20, 2017
Nov 15, 2017
Mailbag: Doubts about the Privation Theory of Evil
Nov 15, 2017
Nov 13, 2017
Response to Chapter 15 of Russ Shafer-Landau’s book Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? “Does Ethical Objectivity Require God?” Part IV
Nov 13, 2017
Nov 10, 2017
Great Truths, Great Division
Nov 10, 2017
Nov 6, 2017
Response to Chapter 15 of Russ Shafer-Landau’s book Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? “Does Ethical Objectivity Require God?” Part III
Nov 6, 2017
Nov 1, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 8.2.2, “Jonathan Haidt”
Nov 1, 2017
Nov 1, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 3, “Eudaemonism,” Section 3.3.1: The First Defense: Epicurean
Nov 1, 2017
Nov 1, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 3, “Eudaemonism,” Section 3.2.3: Two Errors of Kant:
Nov 1, 2017
Nov 1, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 3, “Eudaemonism,” Section 3.2.2: A Double-Source View: Scotus:
Nov 1, 2017
Nov 1, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 3, “Eudaemonism,” Section 3.2.1: A Single-Source View: Aristotle
Nov 1, 2017
Oct 30, 2017
All Hallows Eve
Oct 30, 2017
Oct 25, 2017
Good God Panel Discussion with Baggett, Walls, Copan, and Craig
Oct 25, 2017
Oct 23, 2017
Response to Chapter 15 of Russ Shafer-Landau’s book Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? “Does Ethical Objectivity Require God?” Part II
Oct 23, 2017
Oct 20, 2017
Summary of Chapter 7, God and Cosmos: “Moral Transformation”
Oct 20, 2017
Oct 18, 2017
Response to Chapter 15 of Russ Shafer-Landau’s book Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? “Does Ethical Objectivity Require God?” Part I
Oct 18, 2017
Oct 16, 2017
Moral Objectivity & Universality
Oct 16, 2017
Oct 11, 2017
Detective Morse and Post-Modern Relativism
Oct 11, 2017
Oct 9, 2017
Interview with Dorothy Greco, Author of Making Marriage Beautiful
Oct 9, 2017
Oct 4, 2017
"Signs of His Presence" A Sermon by Dennis Kinlaw
Oct 4, 2017
Oct 2, 2017
C. S. Lewis’s Christian Apologetics: Part Three: The Moral Argument (Outline)
Oct 2, 2017
Sep 27, 2017
Mailbag: The Science of Morality?
Sep 27, 2017
Sep 25, 2017
Wielenberg on Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
Sep 25, 2017
Sep 20, 2017
"Consumed by Christ" A Sermon by Dennis Kinlaw
Sep 20, 2017
Sep 18, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 7.1 “Maimonides”
Sep 18, 2017
Sep 13, 2017
New Edition of C. S. Lewis as Philosopher: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
Sep 13, 2017
Sep 11, 2017
Peter Goodwin Heltzel, summary of “Prophetic Ethics” of Christian Ethics: Four Views
Sep 11, 2017
Sep 8, 2017
For a Friend Battling Darkness
Sep 8, 2017
Sep 1, 2017
Waiting on God
Sep 1, 2017
Aug 30, 2017
An Old Example
Aug 30, 2017
Aug 28, 2017
John Hare, summary of “Divine Command Theory” of Christian Ethics: Four Views
Aug 28, 2017
Aug 27, 2017
New Associate Editor: T. J. Gentry
Aug 27, 2017
Aug 23, 2017
Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief
Aug 23, 2017
Aug 16, 2017
Chapter 6, God and Cosmos, “Moral Knowledge” (Epistemic)
Aug 16, 2017
Aug 14, 2017
Till We Have Faces, Self-Knowledge, and Learning to Die
Aug 14, 2017
Aug 7, 2017
Steve Wilkens’ Christian Ethics: Four Views, “Natural Law” by Peterson
Aug 7, 2017
Aug 4, 2017
Different Bodies: Part Two
Aug 4, 2017
Jul 31, 2017
Steve Wilkens' Christian Ethics: Four Views, "Virtue Ethics" by Kallenberg
Jul 31, 2017
Jul 28, 2017
Different Bodies: Part One
Jul 28, 2017
Jul 26, 2017
Faith: Book Reviews - God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning
Jul 26, 2017
Jul 25, 2017
What Sort of _______ Is This?
Jul 25, 2017
Jul 24, 2017
Steve Wilkens' Christian Ethics: Four Views, "Introduction"
Jul 24, 2017
Jul 7, 2017
Freedom in Christ
Jul 7, 2017
Jul 3, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 6.3.3, “Al-Maturidi”
Jul 3, 2017
Jun 28, 2017
Morality and Christian Theism
Jun 28, 2017
Jun 26, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 6.3.2, “Al-Ash’ari”
Jun 26, 2017
Jun 19, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 6.3, “Revelation and Reason”
Jun 19, 2017
Jun 16, 2017
Lord’s Supper Meditation – Food for the Body
Jun 16, 2017
Jun 12, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 6.2.3, “Al-Maturidi,”
Jun 12, 2017
Jun 9, 2017
God’s Extravagance
Jun 9, 2017
Jun 2, 2017
The Risk of Loving
Jun 2, 2017
May 31, 2017
Sophocles and the Doctrine of Sin: A Reflection on Teaching Greek Tragedy
May 31, 2017
May 29, 2017
The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis Onstage, Part III
May 29, 2017
May 26, 2017
The Ministry of Reconciliation
May 26, 2017
May 22, 2017
The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis Onstage, Part II
May 22, 2017
May 16, 2017
What Women Want
May 16, 2017
May 15, 2017
The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis Onstage, Part I
May 15, 2017
May 8, 2017
Bishop S. I. Newman at the Gate of St. Peter
May 8, 2017
May 5, 2017
Our Double Baptism
May 5, 2017
May 1, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 6.2.2., “Al-Ash’ari”
May 1, 2017
Apr 28, 2017
Twilight Musings: “A Selection of Mini-Musings”
Apr 28, 2017
Apr 26, 2017
What Happened to James
Apr 26, 2017
Apr 21, 2017
Twilight Musings: “Gender Benders”
Apr 21, 2017
Apr 19, 2017
The Case for Christ: Movie Review
Apr 19, 2017
Apr 18, 2017
Tuesdays with Tom: "They Didn't See Him"
Apr 18, 2017
Apr 17, 2017
Dennis F. Kinlaw: Naming and Showing That Mysterious Quality
Apr 17, 2017
Apr 16, 2017
Was this Resurrection Really Necessary?
Apr 16, 2017
Apr 14, 2017
Simon of Cyrene Takes the Cross (Luke 23:26)
Apr 14, 2017
Apr 12, 2017
The Slaughtered Lamb
Apr 12, 2017
Apr 10, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 6.2.1, “Human Freedom”
Apr 10, 2017
Apr 3, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 6.1.2, “Al-Ash’ari”
Apr 3, 2017
Mar 31, 2017
What's a Body to Do? "Summary and Conclusions" (Part 4)
Mar 31, 2017
Mar 27, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 6.1.1, Intrinsic Value, “‘Abd al-Jabbar,”
Mar 27, 2017
Mar 24, 2017
What's a Body to Do? "Legalistic Insistence on Submission Ruled Out" (Part 3)
Mar 24, 2017
Mar 22, 2017
Chapter 5 of God and Cosmos, “Moral Obligations.” Part 2
Mar 22, 2017
Mar 20, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 6, “Divine Command in Some Medieval Islamic Thinkers,” Introduction
Mar 20, 2017
Mar 17, 2017
The Love of God in the Life of St. Patrick
Mar 17, 2017
Mar 15, 2017
Chapter 5 of God and Cosmos, “Moral Obligations.” (Part 1)
Mar 15, 2017
Mar 13, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 5.3, “Barth and Our Access to the Commands”
Mar 13, 2017
Mar 10, 2017
What’s a Body to Do? (Part 2)
Mar 10, 2017
Mar 8, 2017
Seven Reasons Why Moral Apologetics Points to Christianity
Mar 8, 2017
Mar 6, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 5.2, "Three Pictures of Freedom"
Mar 6, 2017
Mar 3, 2017
What’s a Body to Do? (Part 1)
Mar 3, 2017
Mar 1, 2017
Ash Wednesday and Existential Longing in The Moviegoer
Mar 1, 2017
Feb 20, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 5: Introduction and 5.1
Feb 20, 2017
Feb 10, 2017
What’s Most Important to Know? Who’s Right? or Who’s Hurting?”
Feb 10, 2017
Feb 8, 2017
How Evangelicals Became Over-Committed to the Bible and What can be Done about It
Feb 8, 2017
Feb 6, 2017
John Hare’s God’s Command, 4.4.3, “The Good Promise-Keeper”
Feb 6, 2017
2016
Dec 23, 2016
The Ambiguous Branch
Dec 23, 2016
Dec 21, 2016
Three Reasons Christmas Matters for Morality
Dec 21, 2016
Dec 19, 2016
Moral Transformation in C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces
Dec 19, 2016
Dec 16, 2016
Co-Guardians for the God-child
Dec 16, 2016
Dec 14, 2016
Summary of The Chosen People: Election, Paul and Second Temple Judaism: Chapter 3: Who Are the People of God?
Dec 14, 2016
Dec 12, 2016
Summary of Chapter 4 of God and Cosmos: “Moral Value,” Part I
Dec 12, 2016
Dec 9, 2016
Chatting with Santa Claus
Dec 9, 2016
Dec 5, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, 4.3, Prescriptivism
Dec 5, 2016
Nov 28, 2016
God and Cosmos Chapter 3: The Problem of Evil, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility
Nov 28, 2016
Nov 23, 2016
Attending to the Least of These in the Age of Trump
Nov 23, 2016
Nov 21, 2016
Inspiring Kids to Become Christian Gumshoes : A Review of Cold Case Christianity For Kids by J. Warner Wallace
Nov 21, 2016
Nov 14, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 4, Section 4.2, “Consensus Deductivism”:
Nov 14, 2016
Nov 11, 2016
Election Reflections
Nov 11, 2016
Nov 9, 2016
A. Thornhill’s The Chosen People: Chapter 2: "God Chose Whom?"
Nov 9, 2016
Nov 7, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 4, Section 4.1.3, “The Social Character of Obligation”:
Nov 7, 2016
Nov 5, 2016
Intuiting the Beauty of the Infinite: Ramanujan and Hardy’s Friendship and Collaboration
Nov 5, 2016
Nov 4, 2016
Power, Holiness, and the Ark
Nov 4, 2016
Oct 31, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 4, “Can We Deduce Morality from Human Nature?” Section 4.1.2: The Fittingness of the Law to our Nature
Oct 31, 2016
Oct 28, 2016
Some Things I’ve Learned by Living this Long
Oct 28, 2016
Oct 24, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 4, “Can We Deduce Morality from Human Nature?” Introduction & Section 4.1.1: The Non-Deducibility of the Law from our Nature:
Oct 24, 2016
Oct 21, 2016
Random Ruminations on Spiritual States of Mind
Oct 21, 2016
Oct 17, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 3, “Eudaemonism,” Section 3.3.4: The Fourth Defense: Agent-Transcendent Eudaemonism
Oct 17, 2016
Oct 14, 2016
The Tragedy of Solomon
Oct 14, 2016
Oct 12, 2016
A. Thornhill's The Chosen People: Chapter 1: "The Missing Link in Election"
Oct 12, 2016
Oct 10, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 3, Section 3.3.3, “The Third Defense: Thomist”
Oct 10, 2016
Oct 7, 2016
Random Ruminations about God
Oct 7, 2016
Sep 28, 2016
Summary of Love of God: A Canonical Model: Chapter 9: “Who Is the God Who Loves?”
Sep 28, 2016
Sep 26, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Commands, Chapter 3, “Eudaemonism,” Section 3.3.2: The Second Defense: Stoic
Sep 26, 2016
Sep 23, 2016
Learning from Broken Relationships”
Sep 23, 2016
Sep 19, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 3, “Eudaemonism,” Introduction and Section 3.1: Does Morality Make You Happy?
Sep 19, 2016
Sep 14, 2016
Summary of Love of God: A Canonical Model: Chapter Eight: “The Reciprocal Aspect of Divine Love”
Sep 14, 2016
Sep 12, 2016
Chapter 2: “The Case for Abduction” of God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning
Sep 12, 2016
Sep 9, 2016
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Sep 9, 2016
Sep 7, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 2, “What is a Divine Command?” Section 2.3.2: Three Puzzles:
Sep 7, 2016
Sep 2, 2016
What’s Really New?
Sep 2, 2016
Aug 29, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 2, “What is a Divine Command?” Section 2.3.1: Six Implications of Our Being Commanded by God
Aug 29, 2016
Aug 26, 2016
Unexpected Consequences
Aug 26, 2016
Aug 22, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 2, “What is a Divine Command?” Section 2.2, Divine Authority:
Aug 22, 2016
Aug 19, 2016
The Messiness of Power
Aug 19, 2016
Aug 15, 2016
Introduction and Summary of David Baggett’s and Jerry Walls’ God and Cosmos: Chapter 1, “Alone in the Cosmos”
Aug 15, 2016
Aug 12, 2016
Perspectives on the Lord’s Supper
Aug 12, 2016
Aug 10, 2016
Any Questions? Jude 3 Project Interviews Dr. David Baggett
Aug 10, 2016
Aug 8, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 2, “What is a Divine Command?” Section 2.1.6: Directly Effective Commands
Aug 8, 2016
Aug 5, 2016
The Unsafe Lion
Aug 5, 2016
Aug 1, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 2, “What is a Divine Command?” Section 2.1.5: Counsels
Aug 1, 2016
Jul 29, 2016
Why do you have faith?
Jul 29, 2016
Jul 25, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 2, “What is a Divine Command?” Section 2.1.4: Permissions
Jul 25, 2016
Jul 22, 2016
Wisdom, Old and New
Jul 22, 2016
Jul 18, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 2, “What is a Divine Command?” Section 2.1.3: Prohibitions:
Jul 18, 2016
Jul 17, 2016
Vote Your Conscience
Jul 17, 2016
Jul 15, 2016
Necessary, but not Sufficient
Jul 15, 2016
Jul 11, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 2, “What is a Divine Command?” Section 2.1.2: Precepts
Jul 11, 2016
Jul 8, 2016
Two Calls to Peter
Jul 8, 2016
Jul 7, 2016
Debate: "Morality Does not Need God"
Jul 7, 2016
Jul 6, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 2: What is a Divine Command? Introduction and Section 2.1.1: “Prescription in General”
Jul 6, 2016
Jul 1, 2016
Drinking the Cup
Jul 1, 2016
Jun 27, 2016
The Possibility of Virtue in Christianity and Buddhism: The Victory of Christian Virtue (Part 5 of 5)
Jun 27, 2016
Jun 24, 2016
Ambiguous Nakedness
Jun 24, 2016
Jun 17, 2016
TThere Ain’t Nothin’ Like Love
Jun 17, 2016
Jun 13, 2016
The Possibility of Virtue in Christianity and Buddhism: Interpretations of Buddhist Ethics (Part 4 of 5)
Jun 13, 2016
Jun 10, 2016
Sitting on the Bench
Jun 10, 2016
Jun 9, 2016
Mailbag: A Moral Argument from Evil?
Jun 9, 2016
Jun 8, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 1, section 1.4: “God’s Command and the Scope of Obligation”
Jun 8, 2016
Jun 6, 2016
The Possibility of Virtue in Christianity and Buddhism (Part 3 of 5)
Jun 6, 2016
Jun 3, 2016
The God Who Casts No Shadow
Jun 3, 2016
Jun 1, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 1, Section 1.2, “The Argument from Grace”
Jun 1, 2016
May 31, 2016
Debate: Ron Smith and Matthew Flannagan "Morality Does Not Need God"
May 31, 2016
May 30, 2016
The Possibility of Virtue in Christianity and Buddhism (Part 2 of 5)
May 30, 2016
May 29, 2016
Welcome to the Sawdust Trail: Campmeetings and the Moral Argument
May 29, 2016
May 27, 2016
Twilight Musings: Random Ruminations (and a Couple of Aphorisms)
May 27, 2016
May 25, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 1, section 1.3, “The Argument from Justification”
May 25, 2016
May 23, 2016
The Possibility of Virtue in Christianity and Buddhism (Part 1 of 5)
May 23, 2016
May 22, 2016
Mailbag: Why Do You Think Christianity is True?
May 22, 2016
May 20, 2016
Praying, Rejoicing, Thanking
May 20, 2016
May 18, 2016
John Hare’s God’s Command, Chapter 1, “Morality and Religion,” section 1.1: The Argument from Providence
May 18, 2016
May 16, 2016
The Third Option to the Euthyphro Dilemma
May 16, 2016
May 15, 2016
Fire in the Bones: Love that Holds the Dark Wolves at Bay
May 15, 2016
May 13, 2016
The Twilight Years
May 13, 2016
May 11, 2016
The Christian Answer to Suffering
May 11, 2016
May 9, 2016
The Appropriate Authority of Morality
May 9, 2016
May 6, 2016
Greater Than the Mess
May 6, 2016
May 4, 2016
How Kantian Ethics Helps to Demonstrate the Attractiveness of Biblical Ethics: Part II
May 4, 2016
May 2, 2016
Apocalyptic Love and Goodness
May 2, 2016
Apr 29, 2016
Assaying the Gold
Apr 29, 2016
Apr 27, 2016
How Kantian Ethics Helps to Demonstrate the Attractiveness of Biblical Ethics: Part I
Apr 27, 2016
Apr 25, 2016
Onward, Christian Satirists!
Apr 25, 2016
Apr 22, 2016
Sweeter than Honey
Apr 22, 2016
Apr 15, 2016
God’s Generous ‘More'
Apr 15, 2016
Apr 11, 2016
Summary of John Hare’s God’s Command: Chapter 1, Introduction
Apr 11, 2016
Apr 8, 2016
The God of More
Apr 8, 2016
Apr 4, 2016
A Critical Review of Is Goodness without God Good Enough? Chapter 2
Apr 4, 2016
Apr 1, 2016
Waiting in the Dark
Apr 1, 2016
Mar 28, 2016
An Easter Reflection
Mar 28, 2016
Mar 25, 2016
Victor, not Victim
Mar 25, 2016
Mar 18, 2016
Waiting as Patient Expectation
Mar 18, 2016
Mar 16, 2016
Summary of Chapter 7: "The Foreconditionality of God’s Love" of The Love of God: A Canonical Model by John Peckham
Mar 16, 2016
Mar 15, 2016
Results from the 2016 MoralApologetics Writing Contest
Mar 15, 2016
Mar 14, 2016
To Know the Cross
Mar 14, 2016
Mar 11, 2016
The Fires of Sinai and Pentecost
Mar 11, 2016
Mar 7, 2016
Robert Adams, Finite and Infinite Goods, “Moral Faith,” Part V: The Emotional Aspect of Moral Faith
Mar 7, 2016
2015
Dec 30, 2015
Summary of Part 2 of Robert Adams’ “Moral Faith” chapter of Finite and Infinite Goods: Faith in Moral Ends.
Dec 30, 2015
Dec 28, 2015
Chapter 5, Part I, C. Stephen Evans’ God and Moral Obligations, “Alternatives to Divine Command Theory”:
Dec 28, 2015
Dec 22, 2015
Summary of Chapter Three of God and Morality: Four Views, edited by R. Keith Loftin.
Dec 22, 2015
Dec 21, 2015
Chapter 4, Part II, of C. Stephen Evans’ God and Moral Obligations: “Objections to Divine Command Theory”:
Dec 21, 2015
Dec 16, 2015
Robert Adams on “Moral Faith”: Chapter 16 Finite and Infinite Goods: Part I
Dec 16, 2015
Dec 14, 2015
Chapter 4, Part I, of C. Stephen Evans’ God and Moral Obligation: “Objections to Divine Command Theory”
Dec 14, 2015
Dec 9, 2015
Summary of Chapter Two of God and Morality: Four Views, edited by R. Keith Loftin.
Dec 9, 2015
Dec 7, 2015
Summary of Second Half of Chapter 3, C. Stephen Evans’ God and Moral Obligations
Dec 7, 2015
Dec 4, 2015
Samson: Emptied to Be Filled
Dec 4, 2015
Dec 2, 2015
Atheism and its Impossible Imagination: How Literary Imagination Insists on Theist Morality
Dec 2, 2015
Nov 27, 2015
Time: from Regulator to Terminator
Nov 27, 2015
Nov 23, 2015
Does God Intend Evils?: A Summary of a Paper by Mark Murphy
Nov 23, 2015
Nov 20, 2015
The Master of Death Has Been Overthrown!
Nov 20, 2015
Nov 18, 2015
Platonic Ethics and Classical and Christian Theism, Part 4
Nov 18, 2015
Nov 16, 2015
Matt Flannagan and Paul Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 23: “Turning the Other Cheek, Pacifism, and Just War.”
Nov 16, 2015
Nov 13, 2015
Suffering: from Punishment to Promise
Nov 13, 2015
Nov 9, 2015
Flannagan and Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 22: “Did Old Testament War Texts Inspire the Crusades?”
Nov 9, 2015
Nov 6, 2015
Twilight Musings: Random Ruminations
Nov 6, 2015
Nov 2, 2015
Matt Flannagan and Paul Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 21: “Are Yahweh Wars in the Old Testament Just Like Islamic Jihad?”
Nov 2, 2015
Nov 1, 2015
All Saints Day, Scenes from Heaven, and the Resurrection of the Dead
Nov 1, 2015
Oct 30, 2015
Twilight Musings: Random Ruminations
Oct 30, 2015
Oct 28, 2015
Interview with John C. Peckham: Author of The Love of God: A Canonical Model
Oct 28, 2015
Oct 26, 2015
Flannagan and Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary Chapter 20: “Does Religion Cause Violence?”
Oct 26, 2015
Oct 18, 2015
Podcast: C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Personal Suffering with David Baggett
Oct 18, 2015
Oct 16, 2015
Will, Self Identity, and God’s Order
Oct 16, 2015
Oct 14, 2015
Video: Too Good Not to Be True: The Shape of Moral Apologetics - David Horner
Oct 14, 2015
Oct 12, 2015
Matt Flannagan and Paul Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 19: “The Role of Miracles and the Command to Kill Canaanites.”
Oct 12, 2015
Oct 9, 2015
Judas at the Last Supper
Oct 9, 2015
Oct 7, 2015
Lying and Reasonable Expectation
Oct 7, 2015
Oct 5, 2015
Flannagan and Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary Chapter 18: “What if Someone Claimed God Commanded Killing the Innocent Today?”
Oct 5, 2015
Oct 4, 2015
Podcast: Understanding C.S. Lewis' Moral Argument with Dr. David Baggett
Oct 4, 2015
Oct 2, 2015
“God saw that it was good."
Oct 2, 2015
Sep 30, 2015
Paul and Socrates: What Athens Has to Do with Jerusalem
Sep 30, 2015
Sep 28, 2015
Matt Flannagan and Paul Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 17: “Is It Rational to Believe God Commanded the Killing of Innocent?”
Sep 28, 2015
Sep 27, 2015
Son of Perdition (Matt. 27:3-5)
Sep 27, 2015
Sep 25, 2015
Yahweh, Glory, Goodness
Sep 25, 2015
Sep 23, 2015
Reweaving
Sep 23, 2015
Sep 23, 2015
Platonic Ethics and Classical and Christian Theism, Part 3
Sep 23, 2015
Sep 21, 2015
Matt Flannagan and Paul Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary Chapter 16: “Can One Rationally Believe God Commands a Violation of Innocent Human Beings?”
Sep 21, 2015
Sep 20, 2015
Podcast: A Christian Perspective on Bioethics with Mark Foreman
Sep 20, 2015
Sep 18, 2015
God’s Goodness and the One Ring
Sep 18, 2015
Sep 16, 2015
Cyprian, Mortality, and Future Hope
Sep 16, 2015
Sep 14, 2015
Matt Flannagan and Paul Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 15: “Can One Coherently Claim that God Commanded the Killing of Innocents?”
Sep 14, 2015
Sep 11, 2015
His Rules Are Good
Sep 11, 2015
Sep 9, 2015
Moral Knowledge and Loving Our Neighbors
Sep 9, 2015
Sep 7, 2015
Flannagan and Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary Chapter 14: “Other Euthyphro-Related Objections”
Sep 7, 2015
Sep 6, 2015
Podcast: Mark Foreman Explains Why Abortion is Wrong in Ten Minutes
Sep 6, 2015
Sep 2, 2015
The Possibility and Pursuit of Truth
Sep 2, 2015
Aug 31, 2015
Matt Flannagan and Paul Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 13: “Arbitrary Divine Commands? The Euthyphro Dilemma.”
Aug 31, 2015
Aug 26, 2015
Flannagan and Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary Chapter 12: “The Divine Command Theory of Obligation: What It Is – and Is Not”
Aug 26, 2015
Aug 17, 2015
Matt Flannagan and Paul Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 11: “Divine Command Theory: Preliminary Considerations.”
Aug 17, 2015
Aug 10, 2015
Matt Flannagan and Paul Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 10: “Legal and Theological Objections Concerning Genocide”
Aug 10, 2015
Aug 6, 2015
Transfiguration
Aug 6, 2015
Aug 5, 2015
Platonic Ethics and Classical and Christian Theism, Part 2
Aug 5, 2015
Aug 3, 2015
Matt Flannagan and Paul Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 9: “Objections from the Biblical Text to the Hyperbolic Interpretation.”
Aug 3, 2015
Jul 31, 2015
Ignatius of Loyola: A Life of Obedience
Jul 31, 2015
Jul 29, 2015
Too Good Not to be True: A Call to Moral Apologetics as a Mode of Civil Discourse
Jul 29, 2015
Jul 27, 2015
Matt Flannagan and Paul Copan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 8: “Genocide and an Argument for ‘Hagiographic Hyperbole’”
Jul 27, 2015
Jul 24, 2015
The Humanity of Jesus: A Response to Brandon Ambrosino
Jul 24, 2015
Jul 20, 2015
Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 7: “The Question of Genocide and the Hyperbolic Interpretation of Joshua.”
Jul 20, 2015
Jul 13, 2015
Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 6: “Thrusting Out, Driving Out, and Dispossessing the Canaanites – Not Annihilating Them”
Jul 13, 2015
Jul 12, 2015
Benedict of Nursia: Intentional Christian Community
Jul 12, 2015
Jul 6, 2015
Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 5: “Does the Bible Portray the Canaanites as Innocent?”
Jul 6, 2015
Jun 30, 2015
Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 4: “Does the Bible Command Us to Kill Innocent Human Beings?”
Jun 30, 2015
Jun 28, 2015
Irenaeus of Lyons: A Guide for Staying the Course
Jun 28, 2015
Jun 22, 2015
Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 3: The God of the Old Testament versus the God of the New?
Jun 22, 2015
Jun 17, 2015
Invoking Truth: Lev Grossman’s Magicians Trilogy
Jun 17, 2015
Jun 15, 2015
Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 2: What Does It Mean to Say the Bible Is the Word of God?
Jun 15, 2015
Jun 14, 2015
Basil of Caesarea: Faith Enacted
Jun 14, 2015
Jun 10, 2015
Mailbag: The Devil Made Us Smarter?
Jun 10, 2015
Jun 8, 2015
Mailbag: A Question on Prior Obligations to Divine Command Theory
Jun 8, 2015
Jun 3, 2015
Platonic Ethics and Classical Theism, Part I
Jun 3, 2015
Jun 1, 2015
Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 1: The Problem Clarified: An Atheistic Philosophical Argument
Jun 1, 2015
May 31, 2015
The Trinity: Knowing the Loving God, an Essay for Trinity Sunday
May 31, 2015
May 27, 2015
Equality, Human Value, and the Image of God
May 27, 2015
May 24, 2015
Pentecost Sunday and the Power and Presence of God
May 24, 2015
May 20, 2015
Video: Peter Williams on C.S. Lewis and Friendship
May 20, 2015
May 18, 2015
Pornography: A Dangerous Deception
May 18, 2015
May 17, 2015
Podcast: Mark Foreman on Faith, Reason, and Natural Law
May 17, 2015
May 14, 2015
Ascension Day, St. Athanasius, and Theosis
May 14, 2015
May 11, 2015
Biblical Ethics and Moral Order in Creation
May 11, 2015
May 10, 2015
Podcast: David Baggett on Mothers, God's Love, and Moral Transformation
May 10, 2015
May 6, 2015
Mythopoeia: Evidence of the Image of God in Literature
May 6, 2015
Apr 29, 2015
Epicurus’ Quadrilemma and the Logical Problem of Evil
Apr 29, 2015
Apr 27, 2015
A Couple of Reasons to Think Theism Best Explains Moral Obligations
Apr 27, 2015
Apr 26, 2015
Podcast: David Baggett on the Problem of Evil
Apr 26, 2015
Apr 22, 2015
Summary of Chapter One of God and Morality: Four Views, edited by R. Keith Loftin.
Apr 22, 2015
Apr 21, 2015
St. Anselm and the Perfection of God
Apr 21, 2015
Apr 20, 2015
Hosea and Polyamory: The Sufficiency of Scripture
Apr 20, 2015
Apr 19, 2015
Podcast: Chad Thornhill on the Impeccability and Humanity of Jesus
Apr 19, 2015
Apr 18, 2015
In the Twinkling of an Eye
Apr 18, 2015
Apr 15, 2015
Grounding Ethics in God: Why God's nature determines morality
Apr 15, 2015
Apr 13, 2015
God’s Goodness and Difficult Old Testament Passages
Apr 13, 2015
Apr 8, 2015
A Fundamental Issue with Sam Harris’s The Moral Landscape
Apr 8, 2015
Apr 6, 2015
Video: Genocide and War in the Old Testament
Apr 6, 2015
Apr 5, 2015
Easter and Moral Apologetics
Apr 5, 2015
Apr 5, 2015
Touching Thomas (John 20:1-29)
Apr 5, 2015
Apr 4, 2015
A Matter of Conscience (Matt. 27:1-10)
Apr 4, 2015
Apr 4, 2015
Cock-Crowing (Luke 22:61)
Apr 4, 2015
Apr 4, 2015
Nicodemus, Post Mortem (John 3:1-21; 7:45-52; 19:38-42)
Apr 4, 2015
2014
Dec 31, 2014
Video: David Horner "Feelin' Groovy? God and the Pursuit of Happiness"
Dec 31, 2014
Dec 30, 2014
Robert Adams, Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics. Chapter 10, Obligation, Part I: Sanctions and the Semantics of Obligation
Dec 30, 2014
Dec 29, 2014
Chapter 6, John Hare’s Moral Gap, “Reducing the Demand”
Dec 29, 2014
Dec 28, 2014
Podcast: Emily Heady on the Connection between Literature, Ethics, and the Christian Worldview
Dec 28, 2014
Dec 27, 2014
Mark Linville’s Argument from Personal Dignity, Part III: Personal Dignity and the Imago Dei
Dec 27, 2014
Dec 26, 2014
"And the Word Became Flesh"
Dec 26, 2014
Dec 20, 2014
Mark Linville’s Argument from Personal Dignity, Part II
Dec 20, 2014
Dec 19, 2014
Advent and Christmas Poetry: Awe – John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 15”
Dec 19, 2014
Dec 18, 2014
Debate: "Is God Necessary for Objective Morality?"
Dec 18, 2014
Dec 17, 2014
The Budding Stump
Dec 17, 2014
Dec 16, 2014
Mark Linville’s Argument from Personal Dignity, Part I
Dec 16, 2014
Dec 15, 2014
Kurt Vonnegut: Unlikely Apologist
Dec 15, 2014
Dec 14, 2014
Podcast: Chad Thornhill on the Doctrine of Election and the Moral Argument
Dec 14, 2014
Dec 13, 2014
The Failure of Naturalism as a Foundation for Human Rights
Dec 13, 2014
Dec 11, 2014
On Psychopathy and Moral Apologetics
Dec 11, 2014
Dec 10, 2014
Interstellar and Partiality
Dec 10, 2014
Dec 9, 2014
The Husbandry of God
Dec 9, 2014
Dec 8, 2014
Summary of Chapter 5 of John Hare’s The Moral Gap
Dec 8, 2014
Dec 7, 2014
State of the Site
Dec 7, 2014
Dec 6, 2014
Morality and The Recalcitrant Imago Dei
Dec 6, 2014
Dec 5, 2014
Book Excerpt: Fierce Convictions by Dr. Karen Swallow Prior
Dec 5, 2014
Dec 4, 2014
Summary of Chapter 4 of John Hare’s The Moral Gap
Dec 4, 2014
Dec 3, 2014
Announcement: Theistic Ethics Workshop at Wake Forest University
Dec 3, 2014
Dec 2, 2014
The Fall and Rise of the Moral Argument
Dec 2, 2014
Dec 1, 2014
Four Problems with Naturalistic Evolutionary Ethics
Dec 1, 2014
Nov 30, 2014
Podcast: David Baggett on 7 Important Distinctions for the Moral Argument
Nov 30, 2014
Nov 29, 2014
Video Debate: "Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural?" William Lane Craig vs. Sam Harris
Nov 29, 2014
Nov 28, 2014
The Responsibility of the Christian Writer
Nov 28, 2014
Nov 26, 2014
Video: "The Call of God" Sermon by David Baggett
Nov 26, 2014
Nov 25, 2014
Humility, Naturalism, and Virtue
Nov 25, 2014
Nov 24, 2014
The Inability of Naturalism to Explain Moral Knowledge
Nov 24, 2014
Nov 23, 2014
Podcast: David Baggett on Hell and the Moral Argument
Nov 23, 2014
Nov 22, 2014
Looking Back at the Mount
Nov 22, 2014
Nov 21, 2014
The (Social and Political) Wages of Naturalism
Nov 21, 2014
Nov 20, 2014
Summary of Chapter 3 John Hare's The Moral Gap
Nov 20, 2014
Nov 19, 2014
Battle of the Angi
Nov 19, 2014
Nov 18, 2014
“You Must Change Your Life”: An Apologetic of Conversion in Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo”
Nov 18, 2014
Nov 17, 2014
Link: Matthew Flannagan on the Arbitrariness Objection
Nov 17, 2014
Nov 15, 2014
Podcast: David Baggett on the Nature of Moral Facts
Nov 15, 2014
Nov 14, 2014
Moral Apologetics Writing Contest
Nov 14, 2014
Nov 14, 2014
5 Common Objections to the Moral Argument
Nov 14, 2014
Nov 13, 2014
Summary of Chapter 2 of John Hare’s The Moral Gap
Nov 13, 2014
Nov 11, 2014
Shadows
Nov 11, 2014
Nov 10, 2014
God & Moral Ontology: It’s not Me, It’s You
Nov 10, 2014
Nov 9, 2014
Podcast: Dr. Leo Percer on the Exclusivity of Christianity and the Problem of Hell
Nov 9, 2014
Nov 7, 2014
Plantinga's "Advice to Christian Philosophers" and Moral Philosophy
Nov 7, 2014
Nov 6, 2014
Story and Truth
Nov 6, 2014
Nov 5, 2014
Link: Glenn Peoples on "Why a Christian should accept a Divine Command Theory, part 1"
Nov 5, 2014
Nov 4, 2014
New Book by Paul Copan and Matt Flannagan: Did God Really Command Genocide?
Nov 4, 2014
Nov 4, 2014
Watering Down the Categories
Nov 4, 2014
Nov 3, 2014
Mark Smeltzer Replies to Michael Shermer
Nov 3, 2014
Nov 2, 2014
Podcast: Dr. David Baggett on the Euthyphro Dilemma
Nov 2, 2014
Oct 31, 2014
God, Evil, and the Human Good (Part 2 of 2)
Oct 31, 2014
Oct 31, 2014
Summary of Hare's The Moral Gap (Part 1)
Oct 31, 2014
Oct 30, 2014
Link: Matthew Flannagan Discusses the Euthyphro Dilemma with Skeptics
Oct 30, 2014
Oct 29, 2014
Link: Glenn Peoples and Stephen Law on the Evil God Challenge
Oct 29, 2014
Oct 28, 2014
Review of A Beautiful Mind
Oct 28, 2014
Oct 27, 2014
Argument for God from Moral Intuitions
Oct 27, 2014
Oct 26, 2014
Podcast: Dr. Gary Yates on the Character of God and the Problem of the Canaanite Conquest
Oct 26, 2014
Oct 25, 2014
Saving Wasted Virtues: Heaven and the Ground of Morality
Oct 25, 2014
Oct 24, 2014
Link: Dr. Matthew Flannagan on God, Ethics, and Divine Commands
Oct 24, 2014
Oct 23, 2014
Are All Atheists Unbelievers?
Oct 23, 2014
Oct 22, 2014
Video: Theist Trent Dougherty and Atheist Erik Wielenberg Discuss C.S. Lewis
Oct 22, 2014
Oct 22, 2014
Missing the Point: Why Functional Accounts of Ethics are Consistent with Anti-Realism
Oct 22, 2014
Oct 21, 2014
“Living Life All the Way Up”: Hemingway’s Moral Apologetic from Absence
Oct 21, 2014
Oct 20, 2014
Link: Dr. Karen Swallow Prior on "What we lose by choosing death with dignity"
Oct 20, 2014
Oct 19, 2014
Order and Justice: Mystery Novels as an Apologetic for an Objective Moral Order
Oct 19, 2014
Oct 19, 2014
Podcast: Dr. Leo Percer on Moral Epistemology and the Character of God
Oct 19, 2014
Oct 18, 2014
Samuel James on "Brittany Maynard, Rachel Held Evans, and Not Giving Up"
Oct 18, 2014
Oct 16, 2014
Dr. Karen Swallow Prior on Hannah More, the Christian Worldview, and Creation Ethics
Oct 16, 2014
Oct 15, 2014
Pagan Setting, Christian Virtues: Christian Character in Beowulf
Oct 15, 2014
Oct 14, 2014
A Sketch of a Moral Argument Cumulative, Abductive, and Teleological
Oct 14, 2014
Oct 13, 2014
God, Evil, and the Human Good
Oct 13, 2014
Oct 12, 2014
Podcast: Dr. Baggett on the Moral Argument and Knowing What God is Like
Oct 12, 2014
Oct 12, 2014
EPS Interview with R. Scott Smith: In Search of Moral Knowledge
Oct 12, 2014
Oct 10, 2014
A Perfect God
Oct 10, 2014
Oct 10, 2014
Thomas Nagel’s Rejection of Theism: A Critique
Oct 10, 2014
Oct 9, 2014
John Hare's Review of Good God
Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014
EPS Interview with David Baggett and Jerry Walls
Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014
How to Think about the Gospel of Autonomy
Oct 9, 2014
Oct 8, 2014
Audio Lecture: Four Ways God Best Explains Morality
Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014
Atheism & Morality
Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014
Worldview as Explanatory Hypothesis
Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014
The Bonobo and the Atheist
Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014
Review of Angus Ritchie's From Morality to Metaphysics
Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014
Sam Harris on Faith
Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014
Why it Matters
Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014
The Big Ghost, Thor, and the Self
Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014
Foot on Nietzsche
Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014
What is Philosophy of Religion?
Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014
Trees, Values, and Sam Harris
Oct 8, 2014
Oct 6, 2014
Podcast: Dr. Baggett on the Abductive Approach to the Moral Argument
Oct 6, 2014
Oct 6, 2014
Podcast: Website Introduction
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