Episodes

In this episode I interview the one and only Eric Metaxas! He is author , speaker, and conservative radio host. He has written three biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce (2007), Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011), and Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World about Martin Luther (2017). He has also written humor, children’s books, and scripts for VeggieTales....

What are the limits of reason in moral thinking and living? How do we understand God in light of the critique of Immanuel Kant? In this episode of LogicallyFaithful, Dr. Chris Firestone helps us see what we cannot with our eyes alone. He is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Trinity International University and is the co-writer and co-producer of the short film Last Wish (2010) and the feature film Killing Poe (2017) and the author of Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion, coedited with Ste...

What are some of these attributes that make God, God? Here are a few : 3.5 WHAT IS GOD? The Attributes of the Divine – A Philosophical and Theological Examination By Khaldoun Aziz Sweis, PhD The Ultimate Question: What is God? To even dare to ask “What is God?” is to step onto the precipice of the infinite, to stare into the abyss of Being itself. This is no mere intellectual exercise—it is the most profound inquiry a human mind can undertake. Because if God exists, then God is the ground of al...

How can one have a holistic faith yet still have nagging doubts? This podcast is on a talk I delivered on doubt from the book of John 20: 24-31. “In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.” “Pensées” by Blaise Pascal, This is the outline 1. YOU ARE NOT ALONE 2. DOUBT CAN LEAD TO GENUINE FAITH 3. ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY IS ABSURD 4. BELIEVE, FIRST THAT YOU MAY UNDERSTAND NOTE: IF YOU APPRECIATE THESE PODCASTS, WILL YOU DO ME A SMALL FA...

How do we deal with religious oppression in society? I was part of a Social Justice Education Town Hall on the Historical Context of Religion and Oppression 11/12/20 at Northern Illinois University. It was with Dr. Ted Williams at the Professor of Political Science and Dr. Bonnie Harrison, Anthropology, an African indigenous religious expert. Here is the audio. The post 3.3 The Historical Context of Religious Oppression first appeared on Logically Faithful-Beyond Opinion.

Find out how to restore your peace in this podcast. The Hebrew word for Peace, Shalom (Hebrew: שָׁלוֹם‎ shalom) is not just an absence of trouble, but a restoring of wholeness. It refers to a stone that has no cracks. Life is a complex web full of moving parts and circumstances, when you are lacking peace—it means you are missing someone, or something is broken like a relationship. It needs to be restored. To make complete, to restore is to have peace. To make shalom, is to make peace, or restor...

It is my honor to interview the great Max McLean on his role as C.S. Lewis Onstage in The Most Reluctant Convert for the New Season 3.1 of LogicallyFaithful! He is an award-winning actor and founder and artistic director of New York City-based Fellowship for Performing Arts. Max adapted for the stage The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert, The Great Divorce, Genesis and Mark’s Gospel. His recent writing and producing credits include Martin Luther on Trial. UPDAT...

What makes a religion peaceful? Is Islam a “religion of peace?” How should we address this issue with wisdom, truth, and grace? Now, please note, we cannot adequately understand and deal with this controversial issue without people being offended. But being offended does not make you or me right. We must look at the truth in the most objective way we can with grace and humility. There is a difference between a person who claims to be a Muslim and the teachings of Islam (and there are many vari...

What logical reason is there that God is good? In this episode, I Interview David Baggett. Dr. Baggett author of Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality. The book won Christianity Today’s 2012 apologetics book of the year of the award. He published a sequel with Walls that critiques naturalistic ethics, God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning. A third book in the series, The Moral Argument: A History, chronicles the history of moral arguments for God’s existence. Dr. Baggett has als...

Public Live Philosophical Lecture. Do All Religions Worship the Same God? How should we think about Universalism or pluralism in religion? This is a lecture delivered to my philosophy of religion class. It is a podcast. I look forward to your feedback The post 2.32 Unity of Truth and the Plurality of Faiths first appeared on Logically Faithful-Beyond Opinion.