Back in my college days, our Catholic apologetics professor advised us students, “Don’t argue on someone else’s playing field. Argue on your own.” It’s great advice, and it is very much a message in ...

I frequently have opportunities to defend my worldview. In fact, almost daily I have conversations about my "old-fashioned" morals and my "scientifically untenable" religious convictions. Whenever the ...

Apologetic books, an evergreen genre of titles that offer arguments and justifications for Christian beliefs, do not usually top bestseller lists. Nevertheless, as a new generation of readers looks ...

The "Four Horsemen" of modern atheism—authors famed in the 1990s and early 2000s for their acerbic attacks on the existence of God and the value of religion—have mostly ridden out of sight. Social ...

A new history of American apologetics from Daniel K. Williams offers careful detail, worthwhile lessons, and an ambitious, sprawling, rollicking narrative. This tension has led many Christians either ...

When it comes to defending the faith, local congregations have long been the first line of defense. I sat in a corner of the library with a stack of books, desperately wanting to find some shred of ...

It's mostly amusing, but sometimes annoying to be in a field of work that most people have never heard of. “You say you're sorry all the time?!” It's good to laugh at yourself. But seriously, my “job ...