+ Good & Bad Protestant & Catholic Apologetics & Historical Revisionism & “Twisting” Rev. Dr. Jordan B. Cooper is a Lutheran pastor, adjunct professor of Systematic Theology, Executive Director of the popular Just & Sinner YouTube channel, and the President of the American Lutheran Theological Seminary (which holds to a doctrinally traditional Lutheranism, similar to the Lutheran Church ..read more

Contra John Martignoni’s Repeated Claims to the Contrary Catholic apologist John Martignoni has stated no less than seven times in public (in his newsletter, which he told me has 70,000 subscribers, and on his website) that I classified Bishop Strickland and/or Cardinal Burke as “heretics” or called them that term or thought it (line breaks ..read more

Dr. Gavin Ortlund is a Reformed Baptist author, speaker, pastor, scholar, and apologist for the Christian faith. He has a Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary in historical theology, and an M.Div from Covenant Theological Seminary. Gavin is the author of seven books as well as numerous academic and popular articles. For a list of publications, see ..read more

Including Documentation of His Stated Views & Mindless Smears Sent My Way in a Catholic World Report Combox The background of this latest incident where Dr. Williams (his words will be in blue below) has taken it upon himself to personally attack my work and myself in a very public venue (The Catholic World Report ..read more

“axelbeingcivil” is a cordial atheist who is a biologist. I’ve enjoyed many good dialogues with him. This dialogue occurred after he responded in the combox of my article, 12 Ways God-Rejecters Murder, Attack, & Abuse Children (The Devil, Those Who Have Rejected God & Christianity, & the Radical Secularists Always Attack, Abuse, or Murder Children ..read more

Some fool who goes by “LB236” [description: “Traditionalist Catholic and amateur liturgist, navigating the TLM rubrics so you don’t have to”] decided to attack yours truly, almost the “entire staff” of Catholic Answers, and George Weigel on Twitter: ***** Dear George Weigel, Dave Armstrong, and pretty much the entire staff of Catholic Answers: * I ..read more

[click on the cover to see a much larger image] [to be published by Catholic Answers Press on March 20, 2023; 320 pages] [pre-order from Amazon ($21.95 for the paperback) ] [Note: the artifact on the cover is the “Isaiah bulla”: discovered in 2018, and very likely connected with the prophet Isaiah (8th-7th c. BC ..read more

[originally from 23 October 2004] Words of Cornelius Van Til (1895-1987) will be in blue.  I touched specifically upon this subject in an old paper: “Live” Dialogue on the Rationality of Christian Belief, Presuppositionalism, and Philosophical Arguments for God’s Existence. By a coincidence, this was written exactly four years ago from the time of this writing ..read more

[originally posted on 14 April 2007] The late Calvinist Greg L. Bahnsen (1948-1995) was an articulate (arguably the foremost and most respectable) exponent of presuppositional apologetics. Rather than summarize that point of view, I’ll let readers unfamiliar with this approach learn of it from one of its ablest proponents in recent times. I’m very interested at ..read more

I have decided to restore this piece, originally from 8-6-13, to my blog, for reasons that I shared at the end of my revised article, Top Ten All-Time Favorite Insults Sent My Way, underneath Shawn’s entry (which must be read to be believed) that had been restored to its rightful #1 position. What may appear ..read more