Nigerian Bishop Jwan Zhumbes has had a difficult time. Many of you will know that he came to this country at our invitation to address Christian persecution. While here, he complained of stomach pains and so we had him examined by a GI specialist. Much to our shock, he was Read more…
This week, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees was sacked from the blindside by a headline in Big Easy Magazine reading: “Drew Brees records video for Anti-LGBTQ religious organization.” In fact, Brees had recorded a 23-second video for Focus on the Family promoting National Bring Your Bible to School Day. Read more…
In recent days, Hillsong worship leader, Marty Sampson, has announced that his faith in Jesus Christ is “on incredibly shaky ground.” He has refuted initial reports of an outright denial of his faith. Predictably, this announcement came, like Joshua Harris’s, via the millennial way, Instagram. Sampson cites atheist arguments against Read more…
I returned to Birmingham, Alabama from Oxford, England and hit the ground running. John Lennox had expressed openness to my invitation but he had made no commitments. Before he would do so, he wanted me to demonstrate that I was “serious” about what I had proposed…
I have always said that the backstory to the debates between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox, four in all, is at least as interesting as the debates themselves, if not more so. For every minute that they spent with each other on stage – Richard certainly would not tolerate John’s company anywhere else – I spent many more with each of them off stage…
“Church became all about ceremony, handholding, and kumbaya,” Phil said with a look of disgust. “I missed my old youth pastor. He actually knew the Bible.” I have known a lot of atheists. The late Christopher Hitchens was a friend with whom I debated, road tripped, and even had a
A generation ago, evangelical writer and pastor Joshua Harris, the son of then-prominent Christian author Gregg Harris, published a book titled I Kissed Dating Goodbye (1997). The book became a bestseller and gave him a sort of stardom among an ultra-conservative segment of the Christian population. Indeed, he remains well-known
“I don’t usually do debates,” atheist Oxford Professor of Evolutionary Biology Richard Dawkins told John Lennox, himself a Christian and an Oxford Professor of Pure Mathematics and Philosophy of Science. It was October 3rd, 2007. The two men were backstage waiting to be introduced to a capacity crowd at the
The self-appointed “prophet” Muhammad ordered the beheading of as many of 900 Jews of the Banu Qurayza tribe in a single day in 627. He also fought no less than 29 battles. Muhammad’s life is to be a model to Muslims worldwide. Compare this to Jesus, the model for Christians,