“Aquinas has been thoroughly refuted.” Maybe your college friend said this. Perhaps even a professor. It’s not uncommon to hear such an assertion thrown out there. I’m using it here to illustrate this idea: you don’t need to rebut phantom arguments. A phantom argument lacks substance, specificity, and clarity....

People like compliments. They like to be praised. I always enjoyed receiving praise from my teachers. I like when my wife tells me I’ve done something well. As Christians, we fight the sin of pride and the urge to desire human praise in a way that leads to...

It’s difficult to think on the spot. Suppose you’re trying to explain rational arguments for God’s existence. No matter how well you know the arguments, skeptics can rattle off quick objections like machine gun fire: Why is there evil if God exists? Children die of cancer all the...

Schoolyard bullies expect you to cower in fear and fold. If the bully has you outnumbered, this is especially true. However, if you catch him off guard, face him, and punch him right in the nose, the shock of the situation may be enough to ward off the...

You don’t want your discussions to go to Hell. This does not mean the topic of Hell should never arise. Rather, you want to monitor the temperature of the discussion very carefully and use the right tactics to prevent an overheated conversation. In part one of this series, I revealed that...

I bet you lose a lot of debates. I bet you’ve offered up some fantastic points only to be clobbered by a room (or Facebook group) of unpersuaded, skeptics. On topics related to Donald Trump, God’s existence, the minimum wage, abortion, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, socialism, or state nullification, you’ve...