• The Contradictory Recollections of Near-Death Experiences
• Moral Damage and Spiritual Repair in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Justice and Asymmetric Warfare
• Javert Is “Right”: The Demonization of Conservatism in Les Misérables
• The Twisted Grace of Joseph Prince
• Are There Nonreligious Skeptics of Darwinian Evolution and Proponents of Intelligent Design?
• When Religious Doubt Grows Agonizing

Volume: 36
Issue: 2
Year: 2013

04 From the Editor
Observing the Fortieth Anniversary of Roe v.Wade

06 Response
A Thief in the Night…The Troubling Truth about Bonhoeffer’s Theology…The Fine Points of Discernment

08 Effective Evangelism
Reaching Postmodern “Leavers”

10 Practical Hermeneutics
Was Saint Peter the First Pope?

12 Christianity and Black Slavery
by Jeffrey B. Russell
Ethical Discernment and Apologetics: At the time of Christ, slavery was universal in the civilized world, but by the fifth century AD, the influence of Christianity had all but eliminated it. How then in the same Christian era, nearly a millennium later, could legalized slavery be revived in a far more brutal form, and what role did Christians play in finally abolishing it?

18 The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife: A Modern Fake
by Daniel Hoffman
Historical Apologetics and Discernment: The so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife, recently touted in sensational headlines as a new discovery that shows that early Christians intensely debated whether Jesus was married, is actually three lies rolled into one.

22 Voodoo and Christianity: Compatibility or Irreconcilable Differences?
by J. A. Alexandre
Today’s Religious Movements: To understand Voodoo one must understand its history. Its similarities with traditional West African religion lead to the understanding that it is the same religion with minor variations. It is therefore more polytheistic than it claims to be, and its practices, worship, and way of life are incompatible with the Christian faith.

28 The Euthyphro Dilemma
by Matthew Flannagan
Philosophical Apologetics: Do actions become moral simply because they’re dictated by God, or are they dictated by God because they are moral? Some skeptics believe this question poses an insoluble dilemma for Christians, silencing their moral argument for God’s existence. But might these skeptics have overlooked a perfectly good solution to the problem?

32 Pi’s Wager: Life of Pi as Pragmatic Argument
by John McAteer
Cultural Apologetics: The Life of Pi is a 2012 film adaptation of a 2001 book that claims to present “a story that will make you believe in God.” The seeming problem with the film, however, is that it is ambiguous on multiple levels; but is ambiguity necessarily a bad thing in a work of art?

38 Steve Jobs, Jesus, and the Problem of Evil
by Douglas Groothuis
Cultural Apologetics: Although he wrote no books, held no political office, and starred in no films, Steve Jobs was one of the most influential people of his time. If this tribute sounds disturbingly familiar, relax; this article is not so much a comparison of Jesus with Jobs as it is a comparison of Jesus with the man Jobs followed: the Buddha.

42 Jihad, Jizya, and Just War Theory
by David Wood
Today’s Religious Movements: The Qur’an contains both peaceful and violent passages. Muslims in the West generally emphasize Muhammad’s peaceful teachings, while jihadists emphasize his more violent and radical commands. Although these “two faces” of Islam may seem opposed to one another, a careful examination shows that peace and violence are separate stages of a larger Islamic program.

48 The Juvenilization of American Christianity: Why Christians Don’t Want to Grow Up and What to Do about It
by Thomas E. Bergler
Cultural and Spiritual Discernment: In this excerpt from his awar-dwinning book, Thomas Bergler explains how, over seventy-five years, youth ministries have breathed new vitality into major American church traditions. But their influence has also led to wide spread spiritual immaturity, consumer ism, and self-centeredness, popularizing a feel-good faith with neither intergenerational community nor theological literacy.

52 Reviews
A Summary Critique: A Summary Critique: Dan Ariely’s The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty…Margaret Lavin’s Vatican II…Timothy Kurek’s The Cross and the Closet

60 Viewpoint
Is Birth Control Unbiblical?

62 Ask Hank
Has Ezekiel’s Prophecy against Tyre Really Been Fulfilled?

• The Fine Points of Discernment
• When Tomorrow Is Too Late
• The Son of God and Muslim Idiom Translations
• Prometheus: Finding God in Outer Space
• The God Particle
• A Thief in the Night: The Christian Ethic at the Heart of The Hobbit
• The Troubling Truth about Bonhoeffer’s Theology
• Communicating Truth through Humor, Ridicule, and Emotions
• On the Bondage of the Will: Can Cloud Atlas Give True Hope for a Better World?

Volume: 35
Issue: 6
Year: 2012

04 From the Editor
Reclaiming Civility as a Christian Virtue

06 Response
The Sacrament of the Supper

08 What Has Poetry to Do with Evangelism?
by Sharon Fish Mooney
Cultural Apologetics: Poetry has the power to convert or provoke a serious reorientation of one’s beliefs and values. While this power has often been used to promote error, Christians in the past have utilized it to illuminate spiritual truth, and a new generation of Christian poets is doing so today. A feature-length Effective Evangelism

12 Practical Hermeneutics
Robbing Paul to Pay Peter and James

14 Pro-Con: Should Christians Attend Same-Sex Weddings?
by Michael F. Ross and Joe Dallas
Ethical Discernment: Should Christians accept invitations to same-sex weddings? Would saying yes signal endorsement? Would saying no signal a lack of commitment to the loved one? There are no easy answers and so we have enlisted proponents of both options to facilitate the process of thinking it through. A feature-length Viewpoint

20 The Politics of Abortion: Should Christians Vote Straight Ticket?
by Elliot Miller
Ethical Discernment: Because of the primacy of the abortion issue, are Christians morally obligated to vote across the board for the party whose platform opposes abortion? In a previous issue, JOURNAL contributor Scott Klusendorf argued yes, but in this feature-length Viewpoint, Elliot Miller

28 Confronting the Apologetic Challenges of a Secular Culture: Reflections on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Holly Ordway
Cultural Discernment and Apologetics: The late Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy has become a worldwide hit. The books are New York Times bestsellers, and a Hollywood adaptation of the first book appeared in 2011. Should Christians take note? Yes, but with caution

34 Did Daniel Accurately Predict a Succession of Nations?
by Hank Hanegraaff
Biblical Apologetics: One of the most significant demonstrations that the Bible is divine rather than merely human in origin is the prophecy of Daniel. Writing in the sixth century BC, he not only foresaw the ascendancy of the Median and Persian empires but also the rise to dominance of Greece

42 Muhammad and the Messiah: Comparing the Central Figures of Islam and Christianity
by David Wood
Today’s Religious Movements/General Apologetics: The greatest apologetic for Christianity is its founder: all He was, said, and did. Muslims, too, believe that their founder stands apart and that his book, the Qur’an, is their greatest apologetic. A natural avenue for Christian apologetics to Muslims, then, is to contrast the words and works of Jesus and Muhammad

50 Sci-Fi, Free Will, and the Problem of Evil
by Clay Jones
Cultural Apologetics: Science fiction books, movies, and television programs frequently explore free will as a major theme. Surprisingly, these fantastic stories have great utility for illustrating to nonbelievers why a world where evil could never occur might not be the best of all
possible worlds

56 Reviews
A Summary Critique: Lawrence M. Krauss’s A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing…Arthur Goldwag’s The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right…John Gribbin’s Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique

04 From the Editor
Gay Rights and the Challenge of Representing Christ in a PC World

06 Response
Personhood’s Fatal Flaw… The Framework Interpretation of the Days of Creation… The Sacrament of the Supper

08 “Be All Things to All People”: Surmounting Cultural Barriers in Presenting the Gospel to Muslims
by Robert Scott
Today’s Religious Movements: When Christians serve the Lord in Muslim-majority nations, it is expected that they take on some of their host culture’s behavior to help reduce barriers to people hearing the gospel. However, when Muslim people are in my country, don’t I have the right to follow my own culture? A feature-length Effective Evangelism

14 Is Dispensationalism Indispensable?
by Steve Gregg
Doctrinal Discernment: Many Christians today read Scripture through a theological paradigm that was unknown prior to the nineteenth century. This view, dispensationalism, introduced such concepts as the pre-tribulation rapture and third-temple Judaism in the millennium, but these eschatological novelties are not the most important differences between dispensationalism and historic Christian theology. A feature-length Practical Hermeneutics

22 Did the Prophet Daniel Prophesy a Seven-Year Great Tribulation Period?
by Hank Hanegraaff
Biblical/Doctrinal Discernment: The answer to the question posed by this article’s title is yes. But the next question is: When did or will this Great Tribulation take place? A feature-length Ask Hank

28 Evolution’s Achilles’ Heel?
by R. Scott Smith
Scientific/Philosophical Apologetics: Evolution is based on philosophical naturalism, and philosophical naturalism rules out God, souls and all nonphysical reality a priori. Ah, but therein lies evolution’s vulnerability

32 Could Environmentalism Become a Global Religion?
by Dan Story
Today’s Religious Movements/Cultural Discernment: Many Christians today assume that environmentalism, along with pagan nature religions, is evolving into a global religious movement—perhaps even the “one-world religion” allegedly described in Revelation 13:11-18. How realistic is this scenario?

38 To Defend Marriage, We Should Learn a Lesson from Apologetics
by Jay W. Richards
Ethical Apologetics: Never before in Western history has marriage been in more danger, as the media and cultural elites repeatedly assure us that same-sex marriage is a matter of “marriage equality.” If we want to preserve marriage as a public institution, we must make persuasive counterarguments that appeal to widely held moral convictions

44 Addressing the Emotional Problem of Evil (Why Christians Hope)
by Mary Jo Sharp
Practical Apologetics Many of us know people who, after experiencing or observing great suffering, lost their faith in God. If it is true that the emotional response to the problem of evil is the greatest challenge to apologetics, how can these people be reached?

50 We Get to Carry Each Other: Kierkegaard and U2 on Authentic Love
by Michael W. Austin
Philosophical Apologetics: Rock star Bono and nineteenth century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard have surprising similarities. Most notably, they both have profound, complementary insights to share with us on the true nature of love

54 Reviews
A Summary Critique: Elaine Pagel’s Revelations… Alister E. McGrath’s Mere Apologetics… Sam Harris’s Free Will

60 Viewpoint
Learning from an Apostle: Christianity in the Marketplace of Ideas (Acts 17:16-34)

04 From the Editor
Journal Feature Articles: Increased Quantity, Sustained Quality

06 Jehovah’s Witnesses and John 1:1: New Evidence Advances the Discussion
by Brian J. Wright and Tim Ricchuiti
Today’s Religious Movements: Many Jehovah’s Witnesses are publicizing new manuscript evidence—a Sahidic Coptic translation of the New Testament from the second to fourth centuries—that they claim supports their preferred rendition of John 1:1c: “and the Word was a god.” Are they correct? A feature-length Effective Evangelism

14 Practical Hermeneutics
Making Sense of Ezekiel’s Temple Vision

16 Is Legislating Morality Biblical? A Thoughtful Christian Discussion and Debate
by Fred Turek and Eric Schansberg
Doctrinal Discernment/Critical Thinking: Whether your politics are on the right, the left, or somewhere in between, there is a more fundamental question to answer before deciding how to vote: Are Christians called to use the political process to enshrine biblical morality into law? A feature-length Viewpoint debate, including rebuttals

26 Mormonism: Christian, Cult, or ???
by Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson
Today’s Religious Movements/Doctrinal Discernment: With Mitt Romney the uncontested Republican candidate for president, the religious standing of Mormonism has become a national conversation. Mormons are exploiting the discussion to promote public acceptance of their faith as Christian, but Christians can use it to further clarify the critical differences between the two faiths

32 The Bibliographical Test Updated
by Clay Jones
General Apologetics: For more than a generation Christian apologists have demonstrated the reliability of New Testament manuscript copies by comparing their number and dating to those of other well-accepted ancient documents. This “bibliographical test” remains a good approach, as long as Christians update their data to reflect recent non-Christian manuscript copy finds

38 How Jack Kerouac Shaped the Life Script of Today’s Millennial Generation
by Mark Sayers
Cultural Discernment: Soon to be released as a feature film, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road introduced a potent symbol into the contemporary mind. As time has passed, Kerouac’s symbol of the road has gained traction for a culture that is increasingly transient and disconnected

42 Why Apologetics Has a Bad Name
by Sean McDowell
General Apologetics: Apologetics is both biblically based and desperately needed in the church today, and yet many younger leaders resist it. Why? The problem lies both with some of the people who practice apologetics and with misunderstandings about the apologetic task

46 Kingdom of God: Commonality and Consonance between Jesus and Paul
by Damon So
Doctrinal Discernment: Did Jesus and Paul preach two different gospels, one of the Kingdom and the other of justification? Are evangelicals experiencing a crisis of having to choose between one or the other? Or is this so-called crisis a false dilemma, based on a faulty reading of Jesus and Paul?

50 The Campaign to Embarrass Christians into Accepting Darwinism
by Casey Luskin
Scientific Apologetics: Evangelical scholars Randall J. Stephens and Karl W. Giberson lament that almost two-thirds of evangelicals are at war with science because they reject Darwinism. Yet in arguing their case they merely repeat tired, long-ago-rebutted anti-creationist fallacies incessantly employed by Darwinists

54 Defiling the Undefiled
by Joe Dallas
Ethical Discernment: Mark and Grace Driscoll’s Real Marriage: The Truth about Sex, Friendship, and Life Together is largely sound and uncontroversial. But a chapter titled “Can We_____?” is arguably unsound and definitely controversial in some of the answers it gives to questions of acceptable sexual practices within marriage. A feature-length Summary Critique

58 Reviews
Richard Bauckham’s The Bible and Ecology and Living with Other Creatures…Liao Yiwu’s God is Red…Stephen Mansfield’s Where Has Oprah Taken Us?

62 Ask Hank
What’s the Key to Interpreting Ezekiel’s Prophecies?

04 From the Editor
The Mission of This Magazine

05 Response
Special Issue: Where Did We Come From?…Forgiveness in the Bible and in Pop Psychology

08 Effective Evangelism
Chrislam: Insider Movements Moving in the Wrong Direction. A feature-length installment by Joshua B. Lingel and Bill Nikide

16 Practical Hermeneutics
A FAIR Question: Does Mormon Apologist Marc A. Schindler Successfully Harmonize Celestial Marriage with Matthew 22:23–30? A feature-length installment by John Makujina

22 Truth in Darkness: The Hunger Games as an Unexpected Resource for Apologists
by Holly Ordway
Cultural Apologetics: The Hunger Games and its sequels are fast-paced and engaging, with characters that are interesting and complex. What’s good news for Christians is that these books are also very useful material for literary apologetics—though perhaps in unexpected ways

28 When Vague Is in Vogue: A New but Not Improved Approach to Homosexuality Is Growing among Evangelicals
by Joe Dallas
Doctrinal Discernment: Noted evangelical leaders, authors, and pastors are adopting and promoting a revision of our response to homosexual people by shifting away from clarity and toward vagueness. This is intended to improve on past approaches that lacked love and grace, but wouldn’t a biblical approach balance mercy with truth?

34 Birthday Celebrations and Jehovah’s Witnesses
by David W. T. Brattston
Today’s Religious Movements: Jehovah’s Witnesses believe it is a sin to celebrate birthdays, citing the practice of the early church for support. Our author examined the entire extant body of Christian literature before the mid third century to determine what kind of support for the Watchtower’s position actually exists

36 The Sacrament of the Supper
by Michael Ross
Doctrinal Discernment: Holy Communion (also called the Lord’s Supper and the Eucharist) was intended by Christ to unite Christians, but it has become a point of division. What are the major views on Communion? How do Protestants respond to Catholic claims? Does Scripture provide any guidelines for how Communion should be observed?

42 Prayers, Football, and Missions: Lessons from Tebowmania
by La Shawn Barber
Cultural Discernment: The cultural phenomenon of “Tebowmania” has raised some interesting discussion points for Christians, such as: Does public praying before millions of viewers violate Christ’s teaching in the Sermon on the Mount? Also included: a sidebar on New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin and the parallel phenomenon of “Linsanity”

46 Reading My Favorite Atheists: Ivan, Raskolnikov, and Kirilov
by Stephen Mitchell
Cultural/Philosophical Apologetics: The characters in the novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky put their fingers so precisely on problems of justice, morality, and freedom that neither believers nor unbelievers can step around them. Instead, both characters and readers have to face them and respond

50 Viewpoint
Personhood’s Fatal Flaw. A feature-length installment by Bob Perry

56 Reviews
A Summary Critique: Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture…Shawn Lawrence Otto’s Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America

62 Ask Hank
Should We Search for Scientific Paradigms in Scriptural Passages?

04 From the Editor
For Those Who Are Not Gaga over Gaga

05 Response
Old Earth Creationism…How to Avoid Raising Nice Teenagers…Was Israel Commanded to Commit Genocide?

06 Effective Evangelism
Apologetics through Internet Videography

08 Practical Hermeneutics
Stoning Adulterers

10 A World of Gaga
by Mark Sayers

14 Discerning and Responding to Gaga’s Worldview
by Douglas Groothuis
Cultural Discernment and Apologetics: Lady Gaga is a teen (and post-teen) idol, whose recordings are bestsellers and whose videos are watched by tens of millions. Why does her music and message resonate so powerfully with the younger generation, and how should Christians respond?

18 Christianity and McLarenism: Questions and Problems
by Kevin DeYoung
Doctrinal Discernment: Brian McLaren’s latest book, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith, is two steps forward in terms of clarity and ten steps backward in terms of orthodoxy

24 Original Sin: Its Importance and Fairness
by Clay Jones
General Apologetics: According to one survey, almost three-quarters of Americans reject the doctrine of original sin and almost one-half of evangelicals are in the same category. Christians need to appreciate and better defend the rationale for this doctrine, which is foundational to the gospel message of Christ’s incarnation and atonement

28 What Has Poetry to Do with Apologetics? T. S. Eliot’s “The Journey of the Magi” for the Apologist
by Holly Ordway
Cultural Apologetics: Imaginative literature has a significant, if often unrecognized, place in the work of apologetics, as this poem by T. S. Elliot powerfully demonstrates

34 Marshall McLuhan, What Were You Doin’? Coiner of “The Global Village” Turns One Hundred
by Arthur Hunt
Cultural Discernment: From his vantage point in the 1960s, the late Marshall McLuhan foresaw the Internet, social networking, the flood of digital technologies, and many of the ways they would transform the world. What can we learn from this unconventional but farsighted thinker?

36 Ambiguous Islam
by John Ferrer
Today’s Religious Movements: If a “moderate” Muslim condemns 9/11 in one breath, but supports terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah in another, how helpful is that? To be credible to outsiders, Muslims who claim to be moderate need to resolve this and other tensions within their belief system and message

40 Yahweh Is His Name
by Bob Hunter
Today’s Religious Movements: Ever run into a professing believer who insists on calling God Yahweh and Jesus Yeshua, follows aspects of the Law of Moses that most Christians do not observe, and holds to other peculiar beliefs and practices? If so, this is your opportunity to find out what that was about. If not, this is your opportunity to be prepared

42 Forgiveness in the Bible and in Pop Psychology: Two Conflicting Views
by Jerry Jarman
Doctrinal Discernment: Unconditional forgiveness is taught not only in many Christian circles but also widely in New Age and pop psychology seminars and literature. But is it biblical to say you are obligated to forgive even those who have not repented of sinning against you?

46 Enlightenment Humanism: Our Savior from Violence?
by Angus Menuge
Philosophical Apologetics: In his recent ambitious book The Better Angels of Our Nature, Harvard professor Steven Pinker argues that biblical faith fosters violence while eighteenth century Enlightenment humanism has been responsible for a decline in the same. As this feature-length Summary Critique of the book demonstrates, however, Pinker glosses over many facts of history to arrive at this conclusion

52 Reviews
A Summary Critique: Bart D. Ehrman’s Forged…Douglas Groothuis’s Christian Apologetics…Two recent books on the Christian and technology

60 Viewpoint
Thinking about the 2012 Elections: Five Questions for Pro-Life Advocates

62 Ask Hank
Did God Create Everything Out of Nothing?

04 From the President
Mystery of the Monarch: Ultimate Proof for the Existence of a Divine Creator

05 Response
Typological Fulfillment: The Key to Messianic Prophecy

06 Effective Evangelism
Was Israel Commanded to Commit Genocide?

08 Practical Hermeneutics
On the Obligation of Blessing “Abraham’s Seed”

10 The Effects of Porn on the Male Brain
by William M. Struthers
Ethical Discernment: Aided by the Internet, pornography has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry. While sexual addiction is a recognized problem, little discussion has focused on its neurobiological aspects that help explain its addictive properties. On a mass level, is pornography hijacking a part of human nature intended for something better?

20 Did Muhammad Believe in Women’s Rights?
by Mary Jo Sharp
Today’s Religious Movements: Even with close media scrutiny of the role of women in Islam, Muhammad’s actual teachings on women have barely been addressed. These teachings, which venerate males while demeaning females, contrast markedly with the Bible

28 C. S. Lewis on Hell
by Louis Markos
Doctrinal Discernment: The controversy over universal salvation generated by Rob Bell’s book Love Wins has spawned a further debate about whether C. S. Lewis held views similar to Bell’s. In this article, a C. S. Lewis scholar sets the record straight on what Lewis did and did not believe

34 How to Avoid Raising Nice Teenagers
by Kenda Creasy Dean
Cultural and Parental Discernment: The National Study of Youth and Religion reveals that the majority of American teenagers embrace “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism” (MTD), the belief that God helps you be nice and feel good about yourself, but otherwise stays in the background. Where did MTD come from? Don’t be too quick to point the finger

42 Darwin vs. Beauty: Explaining away the Butterfly
by AUTHOR NAME
Scientific Apologetics: For Darwinism to survive it must explain away as mere survival mechanisms everything in life that seems to connect us to the transcendent, including beauty. However, such a reductionist view of life runs into irresoluble logical problems

44 Deflating Darwinism
by Jay W. Richards
Scientific/Doctrinal Discernment: With doctorates in both molecular biophysics and theology, Alister McGrath is perhaps the most prolific living theologian in the English-speaking world. In his recent book Darwin and the Divine, this orthodox theologian employs nuanced arguments to square Christian theology with Darwinian evolution. Does he succeed? A feature-length Summary Critique

52 Reviews
Elias Aboujaoude’s Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality…Nancy Pearcey’s Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular
Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning…Michael Licona’s The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach…Peter Leithart’s Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom…James Frey’s The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

62 Ask Hank
Did Hippos Evolve into Whales, or Scales into Feathers?

04 From the Editor
Reading the Bible for All It’s Worth

06 Effective Evangelism
The Mormon View of Salvation: A Gospel That Is Truly Impossible

08 Practical Hermeneutics
What Is the Unpardonable Sin?

10 Typological Fulfillment: The Key to Messianic Prophecy
by Hank Hanegraaff
Biblical Apologetics: A common objection to Christianity is that the New Testament takes Old Testament prophecies out of context to apply them to Jesus Christ. While many Christians have stumbled over this objection, the answer lies squarely in understanding the role of typological prophecy in the Bible

22 Sex, Lies, and Secularism
by Nancy Pearcey
Cultural/Ethical Discernment: At a time when even Christian young people are “hooking up,” traditional ways of teaching biblical morality are no longer effective. Young people don’t need simple rules: they need reasons to make sense of the rules; that is, they need to be taught the worldview rationale for biblical morality

28 What The Walking Dead Can Teach Pro-Lifers
by Scott Klusendorf
Ethical Apologetics: The season finale of The Walking Dead raised an important question: Are humans nothing more than their physical brains? If so, then belief in personal identity, rational freedom, and human equality must fall along with belief in a nonphysical soul

34 Old Earth Creationism and the Fall: A Summary of The End of Christianity
by William A. Dembski
Doctrinal Discernment/Scientific Apologetics: The evidence of science and Scripture combined forced William Dembski into a dilemma: how can the effect of sin (natural evil, including the death of animals) temporally precede its cause (human sin)? In his book The End of Christianity Dembski offered a solution, which he summarizes for us here in a feature-length Viewpoint

44 Love Wins: Making a Contradictory Case for Universalism
by Douglas Groothuis
Doctrinal Discernment: Hailed as either an enfant terrible or as on the leading edge of evangelicalism, pastor and author Rob Bell is a phenomenon hard to avoid. His recent book, Love Wins, has propelled Bell to a new level of notoriety: is he a universalist? A feature-length Summary Critique

56 Reviews
A Summary Critique: Sam Harris’s The Moral Landscape…The Tree of Life (directed by Terrence Malick)…Todd Burpo’s Heaven Is for Real…Philip Goldberg’s American Veda

62 Ask Hank
Genuine Prophecy or Just History Written after the Fact?