Preparing Christian Students for College
Apologetics and Preparing Christian Students for College On an episode of the Table Podcast, I sat down with Jonathan Morrow of Impact 360 via Skype to discuss preparing Christian students for college, focusing on Generation Z. We talk about the top social and intellectual challenges facing college students today and suggest ways parents and the […]
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. […]