Apologia
Apologia is a friendly roundtable discussion that seeks common understanding between theists and nontheists.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 90
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2024
The End of the Atheism?
Recently, the Somali-born ex-Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali announced that, in a seeming departure from her apostate atheism, she had decided to convert to Christianity. This prompted long-time Apologia part…
01:03:13 |
Mon 01 Jan 2024
Scriptorium: Ryan Sanders, "Unbelievable"
Ryan Sanders is a writer and pastor at Irving Bible Church in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex where he focuses on building community. His most recent book is “Unbelievable: Examining the Unlikely Bea…
01:05:16 |
Sat 01 Sep 2018
Scriptorium: Rebekah Valerius, "Orthodoxy"
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a literary figure and theological influence on many British Christians in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as a figure of continuing influence in the 21st centu…
01:09:43 |
Fri 01 Jun 2018
Scriptorium: Lee Valerius, "The Last Temptation of Christ"
Lee Valerius is a lay Christian and ardent supporter of the Dallas/Fort Worth apologetics community. In this discussion, we talk about Nikos Kazantzakis’ book, “The Last Temptation of Christ,” and th…
01:16:44 |
Sun 01 Apr 2018
Scriptorium: Alix Jules, "The New Jim Crow"
Alix Jules is an activist and writer in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, serving as President of the Board of Directors of the Fellowship of Freethought Dallas, President of Black Non-Believers of Dallas,…
01:05:50 |
Fri 02 Feb 2018
Inquisition: Shunda Lee
Shunda Lee was raised in a family that instilled in her a strong sense of Christian identity and morality, though not specifically following any particular denomination. But upon reaching adulthood, …
01:09:34 |
Wed 01 Nov 2017
Scriptorium: Trey Grant, "Divided by Faith"
Trey Grant is Lead Pastor and founder of The Well Church in Keller, Texas, an intentionally multi-racial congregation that seeks to build a diverse community that worships Jesus together as one. I fi…
01:02:17 |
Sun 15 Oct 2017
Scriptorium: Dan Ray, "Silence"
Scriptorium is a new project I’m undertaking with Apologia, in which I’ll be seeking out interesting discussions about interesting books. These will typically have a theological or philosophical cont…
01:34:47 |
Sun 01 Oct 2017
Inquisition: Martin Hughes
Dr. Martin Hughes was raised in a conservative Church of Christ family that embraced the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement, but though he aspired to be an apologist in the mold of C.S. Lewis, his st…
01:04:47 |
Fri 01 Sep 2017
Inquisition: Ricky Allen & Zac Poppen
Ricky Allen and Zac Poppen are two Christians who have become uncomfortable with the rigid requirements of the pervasive evangelical orthodoxy in America today. Though both revel in the study of theo…
00:53:30 |
Tue 01 Aug 2017
Inquisition: George Yancey
Dr. George Yancey is the author of "There is No God: Atheists in America," based on research in which I personally participated. He is a professor of sociology at the University of North Texas, contr…
00:55:38 |
Sat 01 Jul 2017
Inquisition: Dan Ray Update
In this follow-up interview, I spoke again with Dan Ray, now a graduate of the Houston Baptist University Master's program in Christian Apologetics, and who is looking for more things to do in that r…
00:35:40 |
Thu 15 Jun 2017
Inquisition: Averroes Paracha Update
Averroes Paracha was the first interview posted to the Inquisition series, recorded mere hours before his baptism into the Christian faith. In this follow-up interview, Averroes talks about the strug…
00:26:24 |
Thu 01 Jun 2017
Inquisition: Kymberli Cook
Kymberli Cook describes herself as a "reluctant apologist," which is an interesting characterization coming from someone who works at the Dallas Theological Seminary's Hendricks Center for Christian …
01:03:00 |
Thu 01 Dec 2016
Inquisition: Allen Hainline
Over the years, I've found myself occasionally returning to the university setting to meet with, speak to, and encourage students in exploring and challenging their doubts. Allen Hainline makes a hab…
00:57:00 |
Sat 01 Oct 2016
Inquisition: Ezra Boggs – Part 2
The American Church has flourished over the past several decades by building itself up into a distinct subculture that, for a time, was one of the dominant political forces in American society. That …
00:47:54 |
Fri 01 Jul 2016
Inquisition: Ezra Boggs – Part 1
Many people describe their lives as a roller-coaster. Ezra Boggs describes his life as being shot into space, then falling back to Earth to plunge under the ocean in a submarine. When Ezra was a chil…
00:39:00 |
Wed 15 Jun 2016
Inquisition: Blake Giunta – Part 2
The Pew Forum and the Barna Research Group have shown that the demographics of the American religious landscape are undergoing a slow but steady shift away from Christianity. In this context, how sho…
00:23:00 |
Wed 01 Jun 2016
Inquisition: Blake Giunta – Part 1
Blake Giunta never thought too much about his Christian faith as something objectively verifiable, until a presentation on Christian apologetics changed his mind. He later founded the online ministry…
00:22:00 |
Sun 15 May 2016
Inquisition: Calum Miller
Being a conservative Christian in the United Kingdom is a very different experience from being such in the United States, to say nothing of setting out to develop a career as a young apologist. Calum…
00:32:00 |
Sun 01 May 2016
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