Knowledge and Certainty: Can You Know that God Exists?
Do you have to be absolutely certain about something like “God exists” before you can say that you actually know it? Christians who talk about the evidence for God sometimes get frustrated when skeptics challenge a basic premise like “everything that begins to exist has a cause,” by saying that we haven’t explored the entire universe […]
Respectfully Engaging with Buddhists
During my college years, my wife and I worked with Vietnamese refugees in Southern California. Almost all of them came from Buddhist backgrounds. So I learned a lot about respectfully engaging Buddhists as a youth pastor at a little church plant in Orange County. Much of our time was spent building relationships with these teenagers […]
Questioning Scripture: Did Hebrew Slaves Live in Ancient Egypt?
Did Israelites ever live in Egypt? Engaging Skeptical Challenges to the Exodus When I was growing up, a lot of people I knew believed the Biblical narrative of the Exodus was at least based on a true story. Even skeptics accepted basic details like the Hebrews being enslaved in Egypt. Today, not so much. Skeptics […]
Fighting Human Trafficking in the Digital Age
Technology for Good Using Artificial Intelligence for the Common Good When I began teaching in Northern California, I met a remarkable young woman named Emily Kennedy. Today, she is the President and Founder of Marinus Analytics. I recently invited Emily to join me on the Table Podcast for National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month. […]
The Christmas Story: Prophecy and the Birth of Jesus
Old Testament Fulfillment in the Christmas Story Why did Matthew use Old Testament verses in the Christmas story? At some point around Christmas time, people sitting in a typical church service will hear the Christmas story read from the Gospel of Matthew. But a lot of people tend to gloss over the parts which mention […]