Apatheism and the Unexamined Life
Journalist Jonathan Rauch's Atlantic essay "Let It Be" argued that apatheism, simply not caring whether God exists, is a mark of civilizatio...
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Reasonable Faith Podcast
Reasonable Faith is a conversational program dealing with the most important apologetic questions of our day.
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20 of 344 episodesInevitable Sin? (QoW #1007)
A listener writes in with a philosophical challenge to the coherence of Christian doctrine: if God knowingly creates the exact conditions un...
Eternal Generation of the Son: Dr. Craig Responds to the Backlash
A clip of Dr. William Lane Craig discussing the eternal generation of the Son went viral a few weeks ago, picked up by Protestia and drawing...
Annihilationism and Penal Substitutionary Atonement Once More (QoW #1006)
A reader follows up on an earlier question about annihilationism, asking Dr. Craig to unpack what it means that Christ was "momentarily sepa...
Why Not the Beatific Vision Now? (QoW #1005)
A reader asks Dr. Craig why God doesn't just grant humanity the beatific vision, the direct vision of God, right now, if it's the strongest...
A Megachurch Pastor's Eight Reasons for Leaving the Faith and Where They Go Wrong
A pastor trained at three seminaries and formerly on staff at a Dallas-area megachurch has said he is now an agnostic atheist, citing eight...
Bestiality Among Adam and Eve’s Immediate Descendants (QoW #1004)
A listener working through Dr. Craig's book In Quest of the Historical Adam raises a pointed question about the model's implications: if Cai...
Life in the Intermediate State (QoW #1003)
What's it actually like to exist as a disembodied soul in the intermediate state between death and resurrection? A listener writes in with r...
N.T. Wright, Francis Collins, and the Historical Adam: William Lane Craig Responds
Francis Collins and N.T. Wright recently fielded audience questions after a public conversation, several of which centered on the historicit...
Is Beauty an Objective Feature of Reality? (QoW #1002)
A listener from Morocco argues that beauty is like an emotion and not a property of objects, but says that doesn't make it subjective, since...
Back to School: Preparing Your Kids to Answer Tough Questions
A new school year means a new round of hard questions for your kids about evolution, evil, supposed contradictions in the Bible, whether Jes...
Question from a Hindu Background Believer (QoW #1001)
A listener asks Dr. William Lane Craig how Christianity's dependence on a historical resurrection (unlike Hinduism's Krishna) can be defende...
"Seven Heresies of William Lane Craig"? Dr. Craig Fact Checks!
A viral graphic accuses Dr. Craig of seven heresies. From Neo-Apollinarian Christology, his rejection of limited atonement and Calvinism, to...
The One-Thousandth Question of the Week (QoW #1000)
Reasonable Faith marks a milestone with its 1,000th Question of the Week and it lands right alongside the ministry's 20th anniversary. This...
Annihilation and Atonement (QoW #999)
A listener asks whether annihilation is even a coherent punishment for sin, given that Jesus's atonement on the cross required him to bear t...
Paul Davies Wants a ‘Ghost in the Design’ — But Won’t Call It God
Dr. William Lane Craig continues his response to Paul Davies and Emily Qureshi-Hurst by examining some of today's most ambitious attempts to...
Eschatology and Yet-to-Evolve ETs (QoW #998)
A listener asks whether the eschatological renewal of creation might be delayed billions of years if God's redemptive purposes extend to ali...
Was the Destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 the Second Coming of Christ? (QoW #997)
A listener pushes back on Dr. Craig's claim that neither Jesus nor Paul expected the second coming within their own generation. Pointing to...
Aboutness, Autonomy, and the Missing Option X: Dr. Craig Responds to Davies and Qureshi-Hurst
Can the universe have purpose without a purposive mind? Dr. William Lane Craig responds to physicist Paul Davies and philosopher Emily Qures...
Unconscious Minds (QoW #996)
A listener argues that 200 mg of propofol extinguishes the mind and not just consciousness. He believes this to be empirical evidence that u...