Biblical Reliability
I’ve learned to test witnesses in my criminal investigations before trusting their testimony, and I evaluate them with the template we typically use in jury trials. One...
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Cold Case Christianity
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Are Christians Biased in Their Reasoning? (Podcast)
Why Wasn’t the Virgin Conception of Jesus Mentioned by Mark or Paul? (Podcast)
Is the Virgin Conception of Jesus Necessary and Reasonable? (Podcast)
Why We Know the New Testament Gospels Were Written Early (Podcast)
Answering Two Common Objections to the Existence of God (Podcast)
Christian Living
The more time I’ve spent investigating unsolved murders, the more suspicious I’ve become—not just of suspects, but of people in general. If cold case...
Christian Living
Humans possess an innate sense of justice—a truth recognized by philosophers since antiquity and confirmed by modern science. Socrates called justice a “virtue of...
Christian Living
Prejudice is a reality every police officer and detective knows well. It’s a force that drives people to commit murder, and at times, it...
Christian Living
Suffering is a universal experience—woven into the fabric of the human condition. Yet, most of us rarely account for hardship when mapping out our...
Current Events
A recent Washington Post article celebrated the naming of Lucas Warren as the 2018 Gerber baby. Every year, the Gerber Products Company selects an...
Jesus
At the age of thirty-five, I was a skeptical detective at a large municipal police agency in Los Angeles County. I was also a...
Jesus
Homicide detectives are perhaps the least trusting people in the country. My own experience investigating murders has taught me to consider everyone a liar...
Jesus
Homicide detectives see a lot of dead people. I certainly saw my share, investigating murders in Los Angeles County for nearly two decades. For...
God / Theism
My cold cases are typically built on circumstantial evidence. Cumulative circumstantial cases are incredibly powerful when considered in their totality; the more diverse the...
Christian Living
I must confess that I empathized with Joy Behar (co-host of ABC’s The View) when she recently expressed concern about a claim that Vice...
Biblical Reliability
When I first started investigating the reliability of the New Testament Gospels, I was fascinated by the ancient non-Canonical stories and legends related to...
Biblical Reliability
As an early investigator of Christianity, I was interested in everything ever written in antiquity about Jesus. One day, while searching the religion section...
Culture
Two years ago, the University of Miami established the Appignani Foundation Chair for the Study of Atheism, Humanism, and Secular Ethics. It is the...
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