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Avatar: A Postmodern Pagan Myth

Avatar: A Postmodern Pagan Myth

Volume 33:Issue 2 CONTENTS: 04 From the Editor In Search of an Eco-Friendly Religion 6 Practical Hermeneutics Recognizing and Interpreting Anthropomorphic Language 8 Avatar: A Postmodern Pagan Myth by Brian Godawa Cultural Apologetics: The movie Avatar is an all-time...

The Answer Is the Question

The Answer Is the Question

This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume28, number6 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org People need answers to their questions...

Exposing the Intellectual Bankruptcy of Atheism

Many Christians may have been shocked at Ben Stein’s 2008 documentary Expelled, which exposed the closed-mindedness of many university and post-graduate school leaders around America. The film documented how educators who dared question the theory of evolution...

Born Gay?

The following is an excerpt from article DH055-1 of the Christian Research Journal. The full article can be viewed by following the link below the excerpt. BORN GAY? Perhaps the most dangerous myth disseminated today by the pro-homosexuality movement is that modern...

On Chimeras and What It Means to Be Human

On Chimeras and What It Means to Be Human

This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 40, number 01 (2017). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to:...

Human Cloning: Is Human Cloning ethical?

IS HUMAN CLONING ETHICAL- Introduction Why all the hoopla over cloning? Shouldn’t human cloning be a perfectly legitimate, albeit extraordinary, form of reproduction?The CRI Perspective in a moment... IS HUMAN CLONING ETHICAL- 1973 As has been well said, “The only...

Book Review: What Your Horoscope Doesn’t Tell You

This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal Summer (1988). The full text of the article can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/...

Near-Death Experiences

Near-Death Experiences

Volume 36:Issue 2 To purchase this individual issue click here. CONTENTS: 04 From the Editor All about the Afterlife 06 Response The Euthyphro Dilemma… The Son of God and Muslim Idiom Translations 08 Effective Evangelism Confident Faith 10 Practical Hermeneutics...

Of Bathroom Bills and Basic Beliefs

Of Bathroom Bills and Basic Beliefs

Volume 39:Issue 3  To purchase this individual issue click here. CONTENTS: 04 From the President Cultural Free-Fall 06 Effective Evangelism Why Accept the Pythagorean Theorem? >08 Practical Hermeneutics Did Eve Have Sex with Satan? The Serpent Seed View of Genesis...

Stem Cell Obfuscation

This article first appeared in the Viewpoints column of the Christian Research Journal, volume33, number03 (2010). Viewpoint articles address relevant contemporary issues in discernment and apologetics from a particular perspective that is usually not shared by all...

Dante’s Inferno Explains Hell to Modern Seekers

Dante’s Inferno Explains Hell to Modern Seekers

Volume 42:Issue 3/4 To purchase this individual issue click here. To subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL click here. DOUBLE ISSUE  CONTENTS: 05 From the President 06 How Dante’s Inferno Can Help Explain Hell to Modern Seekers by Louis Markos Cultural...

Sexual Orientation Change Efforts: What’s Being Repaired?

Sexual Orientation Change Efforts: What’s Being Repaired?

  This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 38, number 01 (2015). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to:...

What’s Your Worldview? with Dr. James Anderson

What’s Your Worldview? with Dr. James Anderson

In an era when truth is eroding in favor of whatever feels best, the work of good philosophers such as Dr. James Anderson is invaluable. His book What's Your Worldview? An Interactive Approach to Life's Big Questions employs a similar formula to the “choose your own...

Richard Seed’s Preposterous Plan

This article first appeared in the Practical Apologetics column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 20, number 04 (1998). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/ As has...

Radical Environmentalism

THE CASE AGAINST RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM by Ronald Nash Summary The environment in America is cleaner today than at any time in this century. Despite all the good that the environmental movement has accomplished, it is time to step back and recognize some of its...

Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery

This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 19, number 2 (Fall 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   Book review of Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery Martin Gardner (Prometheus Books, 1995) For...

What the Size of the Cosmos Doesn’t Say about Mankind

What the Size of the Cosmos Doesn’t Say about Mankind

This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 39, number 04 (2016). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information about the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL,...

A Contemporary Classic in the Tradition of Chesterton and Lewis?

A Contemporary Classic in the Tradition of Chesterton and Lewis?

This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 34, number 02 (2011). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Marilynne Robinson is known to many as the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of...

Exposing Classism and Racist Roots

Exposing Classism and Racist Roots

This review first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 35, number 06 (2012). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to:...

Betting the Farm: What Cloning Advocates Really Want

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 4 (2006). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   SYNOPSIS For years now, advocates of embryonic stem cell research have flatly denied any intention...

Darwin vs. Beauty: Explaining Away the Butterfly

Darwin vs. Beauty: Explaining Away the Butterfly

This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 34, number 05 (2011). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to:...

Seven Things You Should Know about UFOs

Seven Things You Should Know about UFOs

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 25, number 2 (2002). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org   As unlikely as it may at first have seemed, the UFO phenomenon...

The Creation Answer Book Glossary

Adapted from Creation Answer Book by Hank Hanegraaff  [Words marked with an asterisk (*) in the text of The Creation Answer Book are defined in this glossary.] alchemy: A medieval speculative philosophy and form of chemistry largely attempting to change common metals...

Honest To Jesus

This book review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 20, number 2 (November-December 1997)   A Summary Critique of Honest to Jesus Robert W. Funk (HarperCollins, 1996) In Honest to Jesus, Robert Funk — founder of the controversial "Jesus...

Exposing Richard Dawkins

I was aware of and had even begun reading Richard Dawkins’ new book, The Greatest Show on Earth, but then I saw the promotional material around it and it’s absolutely shocking.   On the dust jacket inside cover it says, “The Greatest Show on...

The Bible Made Me Do It: Does Christianity Cause Crime?

The Bible Made Me Do It: Does Christianity Cause Crime?

  a book review of The Devil You Know: The Surprising Link between Conservative Christianity and Crime by Elicka Peterson Sparks (Prometheus Books, 2016) This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 40, number 03 (2017).  The full text of...

Creation: Full of Bad Design and Pointless Waste?

The explosion of intelligent design (ID) is undoubtedly one factor that has united the efforts of the New Atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. There is another, lesser-known group that has also been provoked by the progress of ID: theistic...

Evolution’s Achilles’ Heel?

Evolution’s Achilles’ Heel?

This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 35, number 04 (2012). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, click here.  ...

A Summary Critique: Everybody Lies—and to Everyone Else

A Summary Critique: Everybody Lies—and to Everyone Else

This review first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 36, number 01 (2013). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to:...