According to bestselling religious scholar Reza Aslan, the New Testament Gospels “are not, nor were they ever meant to be, a historical documentation of Jesus’s life.” The Gospels are, Aslan claims, fictional compositions from early Christians who re-imagined a Jewish revolutionary named Jesus as an ethereal Christ of faith. But is it really reasonable to […]
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Podcast: What Is the Relationship Between Evidence and Faith? + “Jack and Diane” (John Cougar Mellencamp)
“Faith is,” according to Christopher Hitchens, “the surrender of reason.” But is faith actually the antithesis of reason and evidence? That’s the question Garrick and Timothy explore in the first half of this week’s episode with Doug Blount, who completed master’s and doctoral degrees in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, an institution that may be found—according to some reports—within the borders of Indiana.
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Podcast: What Christian Beliefs Do College Students Struggle to Defend? + “Don’t Stop Believin'” (Journey)
In this special back-to-school episode, Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones are joined by Dr. Grady Adkins and Dr. Joshua Swindall, two researchers who have spent the past year exploring which specific Christian beliefs are the most difficult for college students to believe and to defend.
[Read More...]Meet Timothy & Garrick
Garrick Bailey is a systematic theologian, an unsystematic collector of coffee mugs, and a connoisseur of tacos and coffee who mocks his cohost’s coffee choices. Timothy is a professor, pastor, and collector of as many guitars as his spouse will allow. Timothy is also the award-winning author or coauthor of more than a dozen books, including the Gold Medallion award-winner How We Got the Bible and the CBA bestselling The Da Vinci Codebreaker.
