Proving Nothing
Mainstream journalists and secular scholars push back on The Lost Tomb of Jesus, questioning its assumptions and statistics—and concluding it fails to prove anything that would overturn the resurrection.
Apologetics & Worldview
Apologetics & Worldview gathers Christian Standard articles that help readers understand, defend, and live out the Christian faith in a skeptical and changing culture. Here you’ll find thoughtful engagement with questions about truth, Scripture, Jesus, science and faith, suffering, morality, and competing worldviews shaping public life. These articles aim to strengthen confidence in the gospel, equip believers to answer objections with humility and clarity, and encourage a Christ-centered perspective for navigating everyday decisions and cultural conversations.
January 7, 2007
Five Books About Postmodernism
A curated reading list on worldview and postmodernism, featuring key evangelical resources that explain cultural shifts, challenges to absolute truth, and practical ministry engagement—from James Sire’s worldview primer to Leonard Sweet’s EPIC-culture approach.
January 7, 2007
Embracing the Possibilities in Postmodernism
Mark A. Taylor reflects on postmodernism as a lasting cultural shift and listens to emerging voices calling the church to honest worship, servanthood, and faith without pretense—embracing fresh approaches that help people truly know Jesus.
September 24, 2006
Creation and Evolution: A Debate Primer
A clear guide to the key terms and assumptions behind today’s creation-and-evolution debates, explaining major viewpoints like young-earth and old-earth creationism, intelligent design, and theistic and materialistic evolution.
August 20, 2006
How Can You Claim That God Is Good and Loving . . . ? (Part 2)
Conversations With Skeptics features Jeff Vines responding to three major questions about evil, suffering, and Hell. Includes download details and a short sample excerpt from the first article.
August 13, 2006
The Problem of Evil
Why God allows evil is explored through Jesus’ parable of the weeds among the wheat, pointing to an enemy at work, human choice, and the call to choose, serve, and trust God until the harvest.
August 13, 2006
How Can We Believe in God with So Much Evil in the World? (Part 1)
Jeff Vines recounts a tense dinner in Brisbane where skeptics challenge his faith with hard questions about evil, suffering, and hell—an excerpt from the resource “A Conversation With Skeptics.”
March 19, 2006
Second Guessing God
Why does God allow terrible things to happen? Brian Jones tackles that question with grace, humor, and transparency in a book that speaks to anyone who has faced trouble of any kind. “From the first paragraph I was captured by his open and engaging style,” Gene Appel said. “Brian Jones . . . expresses the heart”s disappointment and longing with a directness that somehow always ends up leading us toward God,” wrote John Ortberg. “This book was written by, for, and in the midst of people with bruised souls,” Jones says in his introduction. “My goal has been to write
July 10, 2005
What Is Truth?
Is truth personal preference or something real and knowable? Ben Cachiaras contrasts cultural relativism with Jesus as the standard of truth, urging believers to hold to Scripture and embody truth with conviction and grace.
June 26, 2005
The Da Vinci Code . . . and Beyond (Part 3)
By Rubel Shelly As John Shelby Spong details his rejection of orthodox Christian beliefs, he reflects a type of scholarship that is more appropriate to Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code than a serious student of the Bible. To be sure, he embraces the Jesus Seminar with its flawed methodology, a priori judgments against anything supernatural, and thoroughly skeptical conclusions. He calls its founder, Robert Funk, “an unusual and gifted scholar”1 and ag rees with him that Jesus needs a “demotion” from his traditional stature as Messiah and Son of God.2 As with Brown and Funk, however, pseudoscholarship is
June 12, 2005
The Da Vinci Code . . . and Beyond (Part 1)
Rubel Shelly explains how Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code “authenticates” fiction with pseudohistory—and why its popularity creates both danger and a surprising opportunity for Christian teaching and deeper study.
June 12, 2005
Answering the ‘Scholars’
Knofel Staton summarizes the Jesus Seminar’s “Scholars Version,” explains its voting method for Jesus’ sayings, and offers an evangelical critique—urging Christians to be ready to give an answer.
