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Cold Case Christianity
- Writings
The Nicodemus Deposition: What the Gospel’s Most Overlooked Identity Crisis Reveals About You
Do the Gospels Contradict?
How Can We Move From the Case for God to the Case for Christianity?
How Can We Share the Gospel with People Who Don’t Seem Willing to Listen?
How Do I Start Conversations About God or Christianity?
- Videos
- Podcasts
How Should Christians Respond When The World Is On Fire? (Podcast)
What 1,300 Years of SILENCE Says About the Shroud of Turin (Podcast)
Did We Make Up God… or Superheroes? A Cold-Case Detective Investigates (Podcast)
If the Gospel Is So Powerful, Why Bother Persuading Anyone? (Podcast)
Deconstruction vs. Truth: A Detective Looks at the New Doubt Movement (Podcast)
Writings
The story of Nicodemus in John 3 is one of the most forensically interesting identity cases in Scripture. Nicodemus arrives at night – itself...
Biblical Reliability
When I first began investigating the Gospels, I wasn’t a believer. In fact, I didn’t even own a Bible. My journey started when a...
Christian Case Making
When it comes to investigating the truth of Christianity, we often need to take two distinct but connected steps—moving from belief in a God...
Evangelism
When it comes to sharing the gospel, many of us struggle most with the people we’re closest to—family members, old friends, or co-workers—especially when...
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...
Belief / Faith
As an atheist, I considered myself a committed philosophical naturalist, and I rejected supernatural explanations related to scientific or historical inquiry. If I encountered...
Christian Living
Not long ago, I had the honor of speaking to the congregation of North Metro Church in Marietta, Georgia. This thriving, growing church is...
Current Events
Unsurprisingly, our national conversation about gun violence intensifies following any well-publicized shooting or murder, especially if it occurs in a school or public setting....
Belief / Faith
Police officers are required to qualify with their service weapons on a regular basis. At our agency, we qualify every month, shooting a standard...
Christian Living
Biblical Reliability
God's Existence
Christian History
Christianity
Christian Case Making
Faith and Belief
Evangelism and Case Making
Evangelism and Case Making
