This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal, volume 34, number 03 (2011). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SYNOPSIS Contemporary Christians in the Western world live in nations with governments that are...
Abortion is one of the most divisive issues in the United States and the most powerful advocate for abortion is Planned Parenthood. Abby Johnson went from being a clinic director for Planned Parenthood to an outspoken leader of the Pro-Life movement after her life was...
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (10/06/20), we present an episode of the Hank Unplugged podcast. Dr. Frank Beckwith joins Hank to discuss their shared history as prominent evangelical Protestants who’ve converted to different historical traditions within the...
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 41, number 3 (2018). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal please click here. It is no longer a question of when a human being’s life begins. We have known...
While thoughtful Christians should have many places where they disagree with the Black Lives Matter organization; the simple statement “black lives matter” should be non-controversial for Christians for it is theologically certain. God’s Word tells us that “black...
This is updated version of the Viewpoint that appeared in the volume 43, number 03 (2020) version of the Christian Research Journal. Viewpoint articles address relevant contemporary issues in discernment and apologetics from a particular perspective that is usually...
Politics for Christians: Statecraft as Soulcraft by Francis J. Beckwith On reasonable beliefs “What I mean by reasonable is not that reason requires that one must believe it. Rather, what I am suggesting is something less ambitious, namely, that a citizen who...
Politics for Christians: Statecraft as Soulcraft by Francis J. Beckwith On reasonable beliefs “What I mean by reasonable is not that reason requires that one must believe it. Rather, what I am suggesting is something less ambitious, namely, that a citizen who...
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank highlights an article in the brand new edition of the Christian Research Journal titled, “Symbolic Immortality Projects Can’t Save You” by Clay Jones, who is also the author of the featured resource of the month, Immortal:...
This article first appeared in the From the President column in the Christian Research Journal, volume 43, number 1 (2020). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal please click here. Ever wonder how the cover article for the Christian...
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (09/14/20), Hank sets out to accomplish two things. The first is to establish a proper reading of the book of Genesis. The second is to appeal to a proper understanding of the book of nature. Does the book of Genesis really commit...
Volume 43:Issue 2 To purchase this individual issue click here. To subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL click here. CONTENTS: 04 Taking the Only True and Transformational Faith Seriously by Hank Hanegraaff Today’s Religious Movements (From the President): The...
The following article was an Online-exclusive. For the purposes of academic citation, it would be considered part of Volume 43 No. 02. This article is Michael W. Austin's part of The Meaning of the Term Pro-Life. A Point/Counterpoint Conversation. To see Seth...
What is the meaning of the term pro-life? How should Christians define this term? This is a point/counterpoint discussion. Michael W. Austin defends his viewpoint from his article "The Meaning of the Term Pro-Life. A Point/Counterpoint Conversation: Pro-Life for All...
The following article was an Online-exclusive. For the purposes of academic citation, it would be considered part of Volume 43 No. 02. When you to subscribe to the JOURNAL ,you join the team of print subscribers whose paid subscriptions help provide the resources...
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 42, number 2 (2019). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal please click here. SYNOPSIS To give a Christian apologetic response to school shootings, it is...
This article first appeared in the Viewpoint column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 41, number 3 (2018). Viewpoint articles address relevant contemporary issues in discernment and apologetics from a particular perspective that is usually not shared by all...
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (07/28/20), we present an episode of the Hank Unplugged podcast. Hank’s guest is writer, poet, and artist, Jackie Hill Perry, author of Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been. Hank and Jackie...
Jackie Hill Perry is an incredible writer, poet, artist and a gifted communicator of Christian truth. She is also the author of one of Hank’s favorite books in years, Gay Girl, Good God and joins Hank to discuss her journey out of a homosexual lifestyle, offering a...
The following article was an Online-exclusive. For the purposes of academic citation, it would be considered part of Volume 43 No. 02. A Documentary Film Review AKA Jane Roe FX and Hulu, 2020 Directed by Nick Sweeney (Rated TV-MA) When you to subscribe to...
In May 2020 FX and Hulu released the documentary AKA Jane Roe promoting the deathbed confession of Norma McCorvey, the woman publicly known as the Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 legal decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution...
Free to Believe: The Battle Over Religious Liberty in America by Luke Goodrich Free to Believe Will Accomplish Three Things 1) This book will ground Christians in the deep scriptural and theological underpinnings of religious freedom. Too often we begin thinking...
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 41, number 2 (2018). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal please click here. Editor’s Note: This article includes descriptions of disturbing sexual activity....
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (06/03/20), Hank reflects on the past year, with tomorrow marking the day a year ago that he went into the hospital to prepare for a transplant that succeeded in curing his stage 4 Mantle cell lymphoma. Hank gives his appreciation...
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (05/06/20), Hank details the Didache, something that Marcellino D’Ambrosio devotes a chapter to in his book When the Church Was Young. The Didache is a document that has long been in use prior to the first half of the second...
In this short podblast episode of the Postmodern Realities Podcast 2020 COVID-19 quarantine series, JOURNAL Author Jay Watts gives practical encouragement to Christians about what it means to love our neighbors (Mark 12:30-31) while sheltering-in-place.We’d also like...
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray What’s fascinating about Douglas Murray and his book The Madness of Crowds is that, although he is openly gay and not a practicing Christian, his observations about the diabolical imposition of the new...
COVID-19 is the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, a particularly dangerous form of the coronavirus. Thus far, 30,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and it will get worse. Just how much worse remains to be seen. There are too many unknowns. Some medical experts predict...
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank unpacks some acronyms and words bandied about today like the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 to name a few. If you are still confused after listening to Hank explain all of this, he cannot help you. But what he...
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank talks about his great concern that as attacks on our religious freedoms continue to mount, most Christians are sadly clueless as to how to respond. This is precisely why Hank is recommending that you go to equip.org and ask...
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/07/20), Hank starts by asking a number of questions. Is the mark of the beast a silicon microchip? Is it a coronavirus vaccine that carries the DNA of the beast? Is it an evil plot involving a nefarious scheme engineered by...
Luke Goodrich is the vice president and senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, where he has won multiple Supreme Court victories for clients like the Little Sisters of the Poor and Hobby Lobby. As one of America’s preeminent religious liberty...
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/02/20), Hank talks about his great concern that as attacks on our religious freedoms continue to mount, most Christians are sadly clueless as to how to respond. This is precisely why Hank is recommending that you go to...
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 42, number 1 (2019). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. Despite the fact that most of us have grown tired of the slippery slope of culture wars and their...
Christians are not averse, in principle, to the concept of nonhuman persons. We attribute personhood to the Trinity and to angels, clearly nonhuman beings. We recognize, however, the danger that lies in attempts to elevate animals to our moral equals in the face of...
Cindee Martin Morgan is the daughter of the late Dr. Walter Martin, who was the founder and former president of the Christian Research Institute, and the original Bible Answer Man. On this episode of Hank Unplugged she joins Hank for a conversation on her new book on...
The following article was an Online-exclusive. For the purposes of academic citation, it would be considered part of Volume 43 No. 01. A Movie Review of The Two Popes Directed by Fernando Meirelles (Netflix, 2019; Rated PG-13) This is an online-exclusive movie...
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 41, number 2 (2018). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal please click here. a book review ofLove Thy BodyAnswering Hard Questions about Life and...
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (01/07/20), Hank talks more on the Feast of the Theophany that was observed yesterday. The Feast reveals the Trinity to the world through the baptism of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Therefore, the day following the...
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...
Topics covered in this issue of the CRJ include: How Dante’s Inferno Can Help Explain Hell to Modern Seekers God the Author: The Christian Imagination and the Problem of Horrendous Evil What’s Pain Got to Do with It? Why Arguments over Fetal Pain Capability Ultimately...
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (11/05/19), Hank answers the following questions: How can we vote intelligently? Is abortion the litmus test, or are there other important issues we need to be concerned with? I know we are supposed to forgive people, but does...
The following article was an Online-exclusive. For the purposes of academic citation, it would be considered part of Volume 42 No. 02. When you to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal ,you join the team of print subscribers whose paid subscriptions help...
The following article was an Online-exclusive. For the purposes of academic citation, it would be considered part of Volume 42 No. 03-04. A way you can help to keep our resources free is by leaving us a tip. A tip is just a small amount, like $3 or $5, which is the...
“Many Christians think of sports as having little to no value. They see the time, money, devotion, and energy that many put into sports as time, money, devotion, and energy that could be better used for the sake of the kingdom of God. But can we think about sports,...
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (08/21/19), Hank answers the following questions: Since God knows the future, why would He put Adam and Eve in jeopardy? I listen to Joseph Prince all the time; what do you think of him? What about his teaching on confessing our...
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank discusses abortion, noting that all this talk about abortion misses the reality that a conceptus has full personhood from the moment of conception. Carl Sagan wrote about this in The Dragons of Eden, where he said...
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (05/28/19), Hank discusses abortion, noting that all this talk about abortion misses the reality that a conceptus has full personhood from the moment of conception. Carl Sagan wrote about this in The Dragons of Eden, where he said...