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Published March 25, 2024 Amidst the egg hunts, chocolate bunnies, and barely edible sugar-covered marshmallows, it’s easy to forget the real meaning behind Easter. For Christians, Easter is about more than just pastel colors and family gatherings—it’s about the physical resurrection of a Jewish carpenter 2,000 years ago in Judea. This belief stands at the […]

Published March 7, 2024 When 16-year-old C.S. Lewis stepped off the train at Great Bookham Railway Station in Surrey, England, that afternoon in February of 1914, he entered the intellectually intense world of his tutor, William T. Kirkpatrick, who was awaiting Lewis’ arrival. Young Lewis quickly learned that “The Great Knock,” as he would later

What are the beliefs of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement? What connects some of Kanye West’s statements about race and Judaism? Find out here.

Published Feb 7, 2024 As an apologist, the pressing questions of culture always make it to my stage. I have spent the better part of the past year addressing the topic of transgenderism—a topic that has spiked within recent years and has left the Church rapidly trying figure out how to respond. Whenever I speak

Matthew Mittelberg Responds to the New York Times Interview, “Reverend, You Say the Virgin Birth Is ‘A Bizarre Claim’?”   On Easter Sunday a few years ago I read the New York Times article Reverend, You Say the Virgin Birth Is ‘a Bizarre Claim’? I felt compelled to respond, because as well-meaning as Reverend Serene

This article first appeared on biblestudytools.com, November 2018   “To rewrite the history books…Constantine commissioned and financed a new Bible, which omitted those gospels that spoke of Christ’s human traits and embellished those gospels that made Him godlike. The earlier gospels were outlawed, gathered up, and burned.”1   This passage, from the bestselling Dan Brown novel The

Q: “Is God mad at me because I’m gay?” – 7×7 Conversations Student A: One of the things that stands out to me when I read the Bible is God’s patience. Have you read Genesis or Judges? Humans are the worst, evermore inventing new ways of being cruel, dishonest, and ungrateful. As you read the

but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, (1 Peter 3:15 ESV)   Q: “One of my friend’s pastors said that most apologists take