[This guest blogpost is by Dr. John Dickson (@johnpauldickson). He holds a PhD in history and is the founding director of the Centre for Public Christianity. Dr. Dickson is an Australian speaker, historian, minister (Anglican), husband, and father. This post is adapted from his recent book A Doubter’s Guide to the Bible: Inside History’s Bestseller […]
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Leslie Wickman PhD, is a former Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space corporate astronaut, rocket scientist, and engineer on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and International Space Station programs. She divides her time between serving as executive director of the American Scientific Affiliation (a non-profit organization promoting the dialog between science and faith), and as a professor […]
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The Bible continues to be the world’s bestselling book. Doubters, skeptics, and critics have attempted to discredit it, ignore it, and ban it. Yet the Bible has outlived them all. What is it about the Bible that is so compelling for countless generations? And how can you communicate to skeptics the Bible’s validity? Bible Gateway […]
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This story was written by author and apologist Lee Strobel. It appears in the latest issue of his email newsletter, Investigating Faith with Lee Strobel. You can sign up to receive Investigating Faith here. Two findings emerged in a new national poll that I commissioned on fatherhood and faith: the younger the generation, the more […]
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Even though the Bible is the world’s bestselling book, it can be intimidating for new, as well as seasoned, readers to know where to begin reading it and how to best understand it. Dr. Chris Bruno (@chrisbruno1) has written The Whole Story of the Bible in 16 Verses (Crossway, 2015) to help readers grasp the […]
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Bible Gateway has published its 2014 Year in Review. Based on over 1.5 billion pageviews and over 150 million unique visitors to Bible Gateway from December 2013 through November 2014, the data we’ve gathered provides a glimpse at how people engaged with the Bible in 2014. You can view our findings here. Our Year in […]
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In this social media age, what is the most effective way to communicate the good news that God loves people and has provided the way to redeem wholeness in a person’s life through the saving work of Jesus Christ? With the shifting sands of culture, flexible forms for evangelism are needed to retain gospel faithfulness. […]
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A new issue of the Investigating Faith with Lee Strobel newsletter is out! Click here to read it online (and subscribe to receive future issues via email here). This issue features “A Skeptic’s Christmas,” a reflection by Lee about a remarkable Christmas experience from his days as a journalist—when he was still a skeptic, intrigued […]
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This morning, the Bible Gateway team (and our colleagues here at HarperCollins Christian Publishing) had the privilege of hearing a devotional message by Lee Strobel! Lee is best known for his enthusiastic, reason-based defenses of the Christian faith (perhaps best exemplified in his influential book The Case for Christ). Among other things, Lee shared a […]
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This is an excerpt from the Investigating Faith with Lee Strobel newsletter. Here, Lee answers a common question about Christianity and religion from the new issue. Q. Isn’t it elitist to say that people must be followers of Jesus in order to get into heaven? A. It can certainly sound that way – and unfortunately […]
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