Image via Wikipedia Liberty University released the following statement: After a thorough and exhaustive review of Dr. Ergun Caner’s public statements, a committee consisting of four members of Liberty University’s Board of Trustees has concluded that Dr. Caner has made factual statements that are self-contradictory.  However, the committee found no evidence to suggest that Dr. Caner was not a Muslim who converted to Christianity as a teenager, but, instead, found discrepancies related to matters such as dates, names and places of residence.  Dr. Caner has cooperated with the board com...

I am astonished at how many evangelicals think that it is okay to observe a Ramadan fast with Muslims. Christianity Today has published remarks from ten evangelicals, five (or perhaps seven) of which think that it’s okay to fast with Muslims during Ramadan. Douglas Wilson is the last of the ten, and he sounds the clearest note against such a practice. He writes: “It is not appropriate to fast alongside Muslims. I wouldn’t make a point, if I were in a heavily Muslim state where everybody is fasting during the day, of fixing a hot dog and walking outside and eating it … but to observe R...

Continuing his series on the new atheism, Dr. Douglas Groothuis explains and counters the new atheists’ claim that the New Testament is historically unreliable. The New Testament: Historically Untrustworthy? Part of the new atheism’s attack on religion and Christianity is not new at all — namely, its charge that the Bible is a collection of pre-scientific myths and legends. Beyond this, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and others claim that the Bible gives downright immoral advice and should, therefore, be utterly rejected. While a short article cannot adequately...

(HT Eye on Apologetics) Four Christian apologists were falsely arrested in Dearborn, Michigan this last week. Dearborn, MI has a large Arab population and hosts an Arabic Festival each year. These Christians made many efforts to only talk to people who approached them and not to incite poor behavior from the Muslims in attendance. In spite of their cordial efforts the Dearborn police department handcuffed the four Christians in the above video and took them to prison without so much as watching the video tape they had of their activity. The pictures below are on the Answering Muslims Blo...

Anyone encountering anti-Christian polemics will quickly come up against the accusation that a major festival practiced by Christians across the globe—namely, Easter—was actually borrowed or rather usurped from a pagan celebration. I often encounter this idea among Muslims who claim that later Christians compromised with paganism to dilute the original faith of Jesus. The argument largely rests on the supposed pagan associations of the English and German names for the celebration (Easter in English and Ostern in German). It is important to note, however, that in most other European langu...