What logical reason is there that God is good? In this episode, I Interview David Baggett. Dr. Baggett author of Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality. The book won Christianity Today’s 2012 apologetics book of the year of the award. He published a sequel with Walls that critiques naturalistic ethics, God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning. A …
2.33 Good God: Interview with David Baggett
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2.34 Is Islam a Religion of Peace?
What makes a religion peaceful? Is Islam a “religion of peace?” How should we address this issue with wisdom, truth, and grace? Now, please note, we cannot adequately understand and deal with this controversial issue without people being offended. But being offended does not make you or me right. We must look at the truth in the most objective way …
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3.1 Most Reluctant Convert: with Max McLean as C.S. Lewis
It is my honor to interview the great Max McLean on his role as C.S. Lewis Onstage in The Most Reluctant Convert for the New Season 3.1 of LogicallyFaithful! He is an award-winning actor and founder and artistic director of New York City-based Fellowship for Performing Arts. Max adapted for the stage The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert, The Great Divorce, …
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3.2 How to find Peace in the Pieces of Life
Find out how to restore your peace in this podcast. The Hebrew word for Peace, Shalom (Hebrew: שָׁלוֹם shalom) is not just an absence of trouble, but a restoring of wholeness. It refers to a stone that has no cracks. Life is a complex web full of moving parts and circumstances, when you are lacking peace—it means you are missing someone, …
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FreeSpeech vs Hate Speech
How do we deal with speech that incites violence? What about media that belittles and muzzles those it disagrees with it? How do we argue well when people are so angry in the board room, courtroom or bedroom? I have the honor of having Stanely Fish the author of “What Works and Doesn’t Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, …
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3.3 The Historical Context of Religious Oppression
How do we deal with religious oppression in society? I was part of a Social Justice Education Town Hall on the Historical Context of Religion and Oppression 11/12/20 at Northern Illinois University. It was with Dr. Ted Williams at the Professor of Political Science and Dr. Bonnie Harrison, Anthropology, an African indigenous religious expert. Here is the audio.
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3.4 The Shadow of Doubt and the Absurdity of Certainty
How can one have a holistic faith yet still have nagging doubts? This podcast is on a talk I delivered on doubt from the book of John 20: 24-31. “In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.” “Pensées” by Blaise Pascal, This is the outline 1. YOU ARE NOT ALONE 2. …
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3.5 WHAT IS GOD? The Attributes of God, a philosophical lecture
What are some of these attributes that make God, God? Here are a few : God is by definition a perfect being. In most theological positions in the western traditions God is a maximally great being who is perfect –having greatest consistent set of properties that add to his metaphysical value •Necessary : God exists necessarily rather than contingently (Anselm) •Omnipotence (maximal power, e.g. in God’s role as …
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3.6 REASON, GOD AND THE MEANING OF LIFE: The Transcendental in Kant : Dr. Chris Firestone,PhD
What are the limits of reason in moral thinking and living? How do we understand God in light of the critique of Immanuel Kant? In this episode of LogicallyFaithful, Dr. Chris Firestone helps us see what we cannot with our eyes alone. He is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Trinity International University and is the co-writer and co-producer of …
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3.6 Lessons from Luther and Bonhoeffer: Interview with Eric Metaxas
In this episode I interview the one and only Eric Metaxas! He is author , speaker, and conservative radio host. He has written three biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce (2007), Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011), and Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the …
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Is Jesus really the only way to heaven? 8 reasons why he is.
“Get with it. We live in a globalized world with different points of view! Muslims believe one thing and Hindus believe another thing. Why believe only Jesus is the way?” So say our skeptical friends. To navigate struggles of life we need to know that what we believe about the anchor of our soul is, […]
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The Shadow of Doubt and the Absurdity of Certainty
Most believers doubt they could be wrong. Doubt is not the issue. Becoming cynical or indifferent is. It’s OK to doubt. The video lecture, located here, was originally given at Calvary Church in Orland Park on Feb 9th. Can a man believe and doubt at the same time? Most of our doubts can raise their […]
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5 ideas to consider in quarantine during COVID-9 (Coronavirus) Pandemic: FEAR vs FAITH.
“God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” 1Tim 1:7 The coronavirus is separating us from face to face contact with people — including those we love. While isolated from others, it is easy to allow feelings of fear and anxiety to upset and depress us. I’m reminding you, and myself, […]
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Why Suffering, & Evil? Quartinuene FB Bookclub
Fellow believer and/or thinker in quarantine! You are welcome to join me for a new FaceTime group discussion on one of the hands-down best modern books on evil, Tim Keller’s, “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering” (Penguin 2015). It is a profoundly wise, philosophically sound and theologically powerful, Christ-centered, yet comforting book. It’s for […]
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2.27 Kierkegaard’s Three Stages of Life: An Analysis
In this episode, I have a profound interaction on the three stages of life that Kierkegaard proposed: the Aesthetic, the Ethical, and Religious. Joining me to discuss the Three Stages of life Dr and Professor J Aaron Simmons. Aaron is the author of many books including Kierkegaard’s God and the Good Life (Indiana UP, 2017) I was […]
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TRUTH: What you thought you know about it is wrong.
What is the truth? In the first century AD, Jesus of Nazareth was taken before Pontius Pilate, the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, serving under Emperor Tiberius from 26/27 to 36/37 CE for crimes against the state. Pilate said that “I find nothing wrong with this man” (Luke 23:4), but because of popular opinion […]
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2.28 Walking on Water in the Storms of Life
What you will find in this video/audio interview will blow you away! Join me as we look deeper into what happened on the water that day with the brilliant Sam Shamoun. It will transform how you see storms in your life. This is an interview with Apologist Sam Shamoun who does an analysis of John […]
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2.29 Hell, the Soul, and Evil with Richard Swinburne
Why believe in hell? What about the soul? This week I interview the one and only Professor Richard Swinburne! He is one of the foremost philosophers of religion in the world and one of the most cited and researched scholars in the world. Swinburne is a Fellow of the British Academy and was Nolloth Professor […]
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2.31 Why you cannot find happiness
How can we apply Sorien Kierkegaard’s three stages of life to our own? Why will we always fail to find happiness? Join Professor Sweis as he gives a Zoom online lecture on this topic on Jun 9, 2020, at 11:00 AM Central Time. The details are below. This is highly recommended. https://youtu.be/Yq-gDw9uWq4 Topic: The Three […]
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2.32 Unity of Truth and the Plurality of Faiths
Public Live Philosophical Lecture. Do All Religions Worship the Same God? How should we think about Universalism or pluralism in religion? This is a lecture delivered to my philosophy of religion class. It is a podcast. I look forward to your feedback
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