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For the past few weeks, Christians have been castigated, especially by some Christian pastors, for shouting and being unkind toward unbelievers. The echo of “Jesus would not act this way” has resounded in the cultural sanctuaries, drowning out the Christian message of sin, repentance, and salvation in Jesus Christ. And rightly so! The Olympics opening ceremony and the follow-up women’s boxing controversy of allowing humans with XY chromosomes to pummel women with XX chromosom

This was not a review I wanted to write. I am still not finished with Megan Basham’s newly released book Shepherd’s For Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda . I wanted to review the book in totality before I finished it but the news cycle and reactions waits for no man and so, unfortunately, there are things to be addressed prior to the release of a broad overview of the book. (That review is forthcoming.) If you have followed along with the r

Season 2 of FTMonthly is here and Josh Klein comes out swinging! In this episode we ask... Which Way Christian? We look at the differences between Russell Brand's transformation and Progressive Theology's transformation of the church that leads to.... the Olympics. NOTES: Russell Brand Journey: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellbrand/ Source Videos: https://youtu.be/uE6E15MzKgU?si=Ac7fg8pJxfDjoVTo https://youtu.be/DQ5DcKlFc2I?si=XJnZ1GUMfaD3euQB https://youtu.be/

Facebook recently deleted one of my posts that was garnering lots of attention. Fortunately, before it was deleted, I felt led to copy and paste my post along with many of the great comments and save it. This allows us the opportunity to continually benefit from the iron-sharpening conversation that was taking place. It also allows others to see if the Book of Face was justified in violating free speech. The topic of the thread was about Marxists who have been infiltrating t

My wife and I went to see Deadpool & Wolverine on opening night. Wolverine was my favorite comic book hero during my middle school days and I loved Deadpool when he first appeared in Marvel Comics back in my Senior year of high school. The idea of a mutant ninja gunslinger resonated with me in my late teens and continues to do so today (I'm still growing up).   Deadpool reminded me of a mix between the ninjas from the G.I. Joe comics (Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow) and Boba Fe

March 30 th 1981. Exactly six years before I was born. The last time a President or Presidential Candidate was the victim of an attempted assassination. Then President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Hilton Hotel after a rally when John Hinckley Jr. shot him at near point-blank range. Reagan was rushed to the hospital. Multiple staffers were seriously injured. Upon arriving at the hospital, it is said that as Reagan was rushed into surgery he quipped to the surgeons, “I ho

Donald Trump was nearly assassinated, what are some factors that led to this and some security breaches that were made? Join Dr. Tim Stratton and Josh Klein as they converse with The Faithiest Atheist (Richard Suttles) about what went down and how we should respond.   Faithiest Atheist Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FaithiestAtheist Check out this episode!

In this discussion I return to Scholar GPT to ask it to perform a Bayesian calculation of the probability of God. I decided to include a few additional lines of scientific evidence for God that I did not include during my discussion with Academic Perplexity. I’m not certain Scholar GPT grasped the significance of the birth of the Universe from the initial conditions of “no spacetime” as Academic Perplexity did. For space reasons, I did not argue every point I might have. Stil

I am a staunch abortion abolitionist. I believe that human life and personhood starts at conception and thus that any ending of that life intentionally is murderous. I have written some on the topic here at FreeThinking Ministries (Read: After Roe ) and debated the topic in various ways and venues throughout the years. I have made the argument for life from scripture and without scripture. In fact, I have argued that the 14 th amendment of the United States supports a feder

Do the gospel's contain contradictions? If they do, does that mean they are full of errors? Join Tim Stratton and Josh Klein as they interview Michael Licona on his new book Jesus Contradicted. Dr. Michael R. Licona joins Dr. Timothy Stratton and Josh Klein to discuss his most recent book, Jesus Contradicted. Why the gospels tell the same story differently. But not EVERYONE is a fan of this book... We dive deep into the book, its goal, and objections and concerns about th

In this discussion I ask Perplexity AI about the scientific evidence for God and ask it to perform a Bayesian calculation of the probability of God based on two lines of evidence. Of course, there are many other lines of evidence but Perplexity seemed to grasp the persuasiveness of the argument so I limited the calculation to two lines of evidence. Perplexity calculates the probability of God at 99.9999%. Me : In my view, the scientific evidence for God is much like the scie

Perplexity AI is a popular Large Language Model (LLM). It has both a free version and a paid Pro version. For this discussion, I used the free version in Academic mode. Academic Perplexity is very similar to Scholar GPT, which is Chat GPT's academic mode. The knowledge base is trained strictly on academic literature, not from sources on the web. Some researchers prefer Perplexity AI in the Academic mode over Scholar GPT because Perplexity will cite the exact papers it is ref

There is a good chance that most reading this blog have heard and can finish the State Farm jingle that begins with the words in the above title. More than making the point that a good neighbor is available to help, the message is that State Farm Insurance is always there to help. We can imagine that whoever came up with the advertisement thought they were on the cutting edge of marketing. Little did they know that two thousand years ago Jesus had made the same point—dare we

In our first LIVE FTMonthly we have been thrown a wrench, instead of addressing the Pope and a Pride Month nature show we discuss the most recent in our unfortunate political landscape... Josh is joined by Dr. Tim Stratton and a lawyer (who has never voted for Trump) to analyze the most recent Trump legal verdict in a hush money case in New York City... The case is seedy, disturbing and despicable but... was it really Illegal? How should we as Christians process this? Doe

ChatGPT is a popular artificial intelligence or Large Language Model (LLM). GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer. It is a remarkable technology. In fact, ChatGPT has been credited as a co-author of a number of peer reviewed science papers. When in the Scholar mode, it is called Scholar GPT.   Scholar GPT has been pre-trained on a large number of science papers in a variety of fields. Large Language Models are not perfect. In some cases, they misunderstand the qu

David Pallmann recently graduated with an undergraduate degree from the institution which employs me as a professor: Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary. Although I never had the opportunity to teach Dave in an official capacity because I teach graduate level students, I was proud to see him get his bachelor's degree. Upon graduating, however, Pallman has been extremely vocal over the past few months expressing concern over multiple apologetics-based argume

Tim and Josh are joined by Kurt Jaros to explore the recent blow up concerning a commencement speech delivered by Kansas City Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker at St. Benedictine College in the spring of 2024. Did Butker outkick his coverage? Were the things he said sexist, homophobic, and misogynistic? How should Christians think of the topics Butker covered and what do we say to those offended by his speech?   Josh's article: https://freethinkingministries.com/the-new-cul

A few months ago I wrote an article on the West’s move towards a post-Christian culture ( Post-Christianity: What's That? ). Since the article’s publication at least two prominent atheists decried the fall of Christianity in the West. One claims to have converted to Christianity ( Ayaan Hirsi Ali ) and the other maintains atheism but embraces “cultural Christianity” (Richard Dawkins) . They, along with fellow atheists Bret Weinstein and Tom Holland recognize that the fall o

The previous article in our discussion of suffering covered three supports that God gave us to persevere: prayer, scripture, and the Church. Along with those supports, we also discussed the proper attitude one should have in suffering with the example of Job. To further the discussion of this topic, we should next look at King David and how he dealt with the suffering in his life. David's life was notably marked by bountiful blessings and severe suffering. Although he is prob

I recently posted the Nuremberg Argument on the FreeThinking Ministries Facebook page: 1- If the Nazis were properly convicted at Nuremberg, then God exists. 2- The Nazis were properly convicted at Nuremberg. 3- Therefore, God exists. I also shared this short video. The Nuremberg argument I shared is sound because proper convictions are based upon truth. If Chief Justice Jackson’s case – which was sufficient to convict the Nazis – was based upon false premises, then the Nazis