Take note Ergun Caner defenders. While in your world “exoneration” is defined as being demoted, hiding, refusing to answer questions, and having once-credible apologists fight your battles, the actual definition can be found in the video below. This video, and there are more to come, show the Dearborn Police Department, the Dearborn Mayor, many Muslims, and even some confused Christians either lying or being grossly misinformed yet still voicing said uniformed opinion regarding the illegal arrest of some of the  Acts 17 Christians at Arabfest. When this goes to court and the j...

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...

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...

Truth is so obscured nowadays, and lies so well established, that unless we love the truth, we shall never recognize it. — Blaise Pascal Staring Truth in the Face “Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” Jesus Christ made this statement after Pontius Pilate had interrogated him prior to the crucifixion (John 18:37 NIV). Pilate then famously replied, “What is truth?” and left the scene. As philosopher Francis Bacon wrote in his essay “On Truth”: “What is truth?” said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Although Jesus made ...