Atheism

Confessions of a French Atheist

Mortification of Spin
May 25, 2022
It’s one of the more intriguing titles one might encounter-- Confessions of a French Atheist: How God Hijacked my Quest to Disprove the Christian Faith . And as our heroes settle in to discuss the book, Messieurs Trueman and Pruitt find its author to be just as engaging. No longer an atheist (but...
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The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self - Part 2 Podcast

Jonathan Master
Nov 30, 2020
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self - Part 1 Jonathan and James receive the visit of a close friend who has written one of the most significant books of 2020. Carl Trueman is the co-host of Mortification of Spin —another podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals—and professor of...

Psalm 10: When the Wicked Boast

Martin Blocki
Aug 28, 2020
“There is not, in my judgment, a psalm which describes the mind, the manners, the works, the words, the feelings and the fate of the ungodly with so much propriety, fullness and light, as this psalm.” Martin Luther We live in an increasingly rebellious and arrogant culture. In 1982, the pollster...

Affirming Ignorance, Certainty and Intellectual Death

Carlton Wynne
Aug 15, 2019
In Col 3:10, the apostle Paul describes one of the most stunning aspects of the Spirit's re-creative work in uniting us by faith to the risen Christ. In that verse, we read that the natural man is, by that Spirit, suddenly and irrevocably "renewed in knowledge after the image of Him who created him...

Natural Revelation: The Consequences of Suppression

Joel Wood
Oct 3, 2018
Romans 1 is the story of humanity’s seeking to detour itself from the consequences of its rebellion against God, and thereby making the situation all the worse. Romans 1:18 explains that God reveals Himself to humanity in nature. Simply put, nature has God’s fingerprints all over it. We understand...

Insuppressible Truth Podcast

Jonathan Master
Jun 18, 2018
Insuppressible Truth Jonathan and James welcome Gabriel Fluhrer. He’s a pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, SC, and one of the main speakers at the Pensacola Theological Institute conference Insuppressible: Glory, Gospel, and the Design of Life , happening this summer in Pensacola, FL...

A God Thing

David Garner
Nov 15, 2016
Exuberant over an experience, an oh-so-sweet manifestation of divine providence, you delightedly seek to give God praise in telling your story. “It was such a ‘God thing’,” you proclaim. As you see it, God wove together an otherwise inexplicable combination of events to deliver a wonderful—even...

Mind and Cosmos

James N. Anderson
Sep 30, 2013
Thomas Nagel. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 130 pp. Hardcover: $24.95. There are basically three types of modern atheists: soft atheists, hard atheists, and conflicted atheists. Soft...

Augustine vs. Russell

Carl Trueman Articles
Dec 31, 2012
Editors' Note: The following article was an opening statement given by Dr. Trueman at Saints and Skeptics , a staged debate between Aurelius Augustine and Bertrand Russell. The cultural and intellectual influence of Augustine of Hippo is indisputable. In his own day, he was bishop of a relatively...

Augustine vs. Russell

Carl Trueman Articles
Dec 31, 2012
Editors' Note: The following article was an opening statement given by Dr. Trueman at Saints and Skeptics , a staged debate between Aurelius Augustine and Bertrand Russell. The cultural and intellectual influence of Augustine of Hippo is indisputable. In his own day, he was bishop of a relatively...