2019 National Convention: A Brief Recap
Over 4,400 Free Will Baptists gathered in Cincinnati, Ohio, three weeks ago for our 83rd National Association meeting. Seven of eight Forum contributors were able to attend. Like most delegates and attendees, we kept busy attending business, competition, giving seminars, working booths in the Exhibit Hall, and enjoying fellowship with old friends. This year’s Convention post will be slightly different from previous years as we will...
Recommended Books (Spring 2019)
Whew! The school year is over, and everyone is ready to unwind. However, we shouldn’t allow ourselves to become complacent during down times. Our less constrained schedules allow us to focus on other areas of our lives. Students and teachers especially should take this opportunity to develop their minds and spirits at a more even pace. But regardless of your vocation, we have a few reading recommendations for you. We have found these...
Cultural Apologetics: An Interview with Paul M. Gould
For the past two millennia, Christians have sought to articulate their faith in thoughtful and compelling ways. Many of these “arguments” have been etched into church history, like Anselm’s ontological argument, Thomas Aquinas’s five ways, or William Paley’s illustration of the watchmaker. More recent times have witnessed a shift toward engaging the surrounding culture with the truth and the practice of Christianity. Men like Francis...
Edward John Carnell: An Apologist for Our Time
If you’re new to the enterprise of apologetics, you might not readily think that you could do apologetics in a variety of ways. But once you begin reading, you’ll quickly realize that Christians have employed a wide array of methods throughout history to defend the faith. These methods include Classical apologetics, often associated with men like Thomas Aquinas, and hard-presuppositional apologetics, usually associated with Cornelius...
Recommended Books (Spring 2018)
The information revolution has cheapened words. We are awash in a sea of verbs and nouns hastily typed into digital existence. To avoid drowning under the crashing waves, we have learned to scan documents for keywords or, worse still, hashtags. Even in the world of print, we can find thousands of books in community libraries anywhere in the nation. Such a wealth of material was unimaginable to the vast majority of premodern men. But,...
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