There’s a principle present in the new documentary Debating Dillahunty that can be encapsulated in the famous song from the Disney classic Mary Poppins: A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. In Debating Dillahunty, the medicine is the gospel of Jesus Christ and the sugar is Sye Ten Bruggencate. Anybody who is even...
A Filmmaker, a Pastor, and an Apologist walk into a restaurant… I wish this was the start of a bad joke. It’s not. Marcus Pittman and I joined Jon Speed to preview the soon to be released film A Matter of Faith showing at a restaurant in Syracuse, New York. If you were waiting for...
Dear Joshua, You don’t know me. I don’t really know you. I recognize your blogger handle (RazorsKiss) from James White’s IRC channel. We may have interacted, we may have not, if we did it wasn’t memorable enough to care. I won’t be referring to you as RazorsKiss. We are grown men, who must be truly...
I need to apologize to Matt Dillahunty. On May 31st 2014, at the Marriot Memphis East, I am scheduled to debate Mr. Dillahunty. Matt is one of the hosts of a cable-access television show out of Austin Texas called “The Atheist Experience” where he went from being a caller in early 2005 to a co-host...
Is Circular Reasoning Always Fallacious? Short answer: no. Long answer: There are two things we need to discuss about circular reasoning: It is (1) absolutely unavoidable and (2) not necessarily fallacious. Circular reasoning is unavoidable to some degree when proving one’s ultimate standard. An ultimate standard cannot be proved from anything else, otherwise it wouldn’t...
Greg Koukl is a wonderful, kind man. I had the privilege of spending an hour and a half with him while driving him to the airport a couple of years ago. Our conversation was deep and very cordial. We disagreed on the issue, and Greg was kind enough to spend the first 15 minutes of...
Glenn Beck is a fool. (Before anyone wants to get all Matthew 5:22 on me, you might want to read it first – and no, Glenn Beck is not my Brother). Granted, not the first words with which I wanted start my meager, sporadic contributions to Gospel Spam, but the level of idiocy that bombarded...
