4 Posts on Christian Apologetics (v. 0.1)

Note: See this post for the concept involved in “4 Posts”

I’m going to use “Christian apologetics” a bit loosely and include anything that involves witnessing or defending the faith in general.

1: Finding Atheism and Donny’s Response

Donny wrote an essay To Carrie, Regarding Atheism. Donny is to be commended for discussing his own questions and doubts. Carrie is to be commended for speaking experientially and honestly. Featured in her discussion is the book The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, though there is little detailed discussion of the claims. I found all of this well worth reading.

2: Evangelism 24:7 – What is the Gospel

I link here to part 4 which is the most recent. This is a sound definition of the gospel from the evangelical point of view, but it may feed into many of the doubts expressed in the first post. You can find links back to the first three posts at the end of the linked post, and part 5 is yet to be written.

3: Sharing a Journey: Yin and Yang

In this post, Kievas Fargo maintains that faith is essentially irrational. He likes science. He believes. He doesn’t see them in conflict because faith doesn’t work that way. Interesting, with good additional link.

4: Pen of the Wayfarer: Unless I had Believed

This short post talks about faith and the meaning of believing. I think it rounds out this “four posts” thing nicely!

Until next time, remember to submit your posts. Otherwise these “4 posts” things will depend entirely on my random reading.

4 Posts on . . . v 0.0

I’ve been thinking for some time that we need a bit more helpful information in order to build the Moderate Christian Blogroll. The problem is that I’m pretty heavily loaded with work right now, much of it on the web, and I don’t have time for a full roundup.

Then I thought of something we did in the conservative Christian elementary school I attended as a child. There were various topics and we would be asked to memorize a list of four texts, 4 texts on creation, 4 texts on scripture, and so forth. I know, there isn’t much relation, but that’s where I got the idea of four posts.

So many blog carnivals and roundups give almost no information about each post and so become just a general collection of links. I don’t have time for that. But 4 posts? I think I can handle it, hopefully more than once per week.

I’m going to pick the topic based on what I see in the feed or the aggregator, and then I’ll link to the posts with enough comment, I hope, to let people know whether they want to read that one. If you have a topic and/or a post, e-mail pubs@energion.com and suggest post and topic. A brief summary would be helpful. I won’t promise to keep up, after all later today I have a list of additions to the roll to add, but I’ll do my best.

And now, watch for new content, 4 Posts on . . . (wait and see!)