Thanks for stopping by Rick, and sorry for taking so long in responding!

No, I’ve never been there. I should consider it, but I’m hardly able to keep up at my usual places these days (including my own blog!). Since I also work in tech quite a bit, I’m always getting drawn into various discussions in the tech/science communities. I’ll certainly keep Quora in mind though.

I think a lot of places around the Web could use more Christian engagement, especially Christians who have been trained or have thought through their positions. At places where a lot of Christians do post, I often spend as much time correcting them as the atheists. 🙁

While I’m really encouraged to see Christian apologetics finally getting some recognition and numbers of people involved… we could use 10x or 100x more, easily.

Thanks Jason. The rejection of apologetics by a church which is losing ground to the culture is probably the most frustrating aspect of working in Christian apologetics. I guess it’s a bit like presenting the Gospel… you’re trying to give someone something they desperately need, yet they often reject it. I sometimes have to keep that in mind when I correct unbelievers and skeptics when they use the ‘blind faith’ definition of faith. While it isn’t accurate of Biblical or historic Christianity, it is often true of way too many Christians. I can see where they get that idea from.

Thanks Glenn. FYI, I’ve been reposting many of my articles over at Christian Apologetics Alliance ( http://www.christianapologeticsalliance.com/ check it out if you haven’t already ) so Greg maybe saw it there much more recently. Yes, Greg does a GREAT job getting good articles out. He and Apologetics315 are my top recommendations to follow to keep up with things.

Yes, I think that ‘no one was ever argued into the Kingdom’ excuse comes from people who just don’t want to deal with the work of actually learning, or worse, from people who actually have a messed-up anti-intellectual theology going on. Either is quite troubling to me.

Keep up the good work!

I left a response over on your article. But, to summarize here, I think discernment is the key. I’m not sure how often I’d head into the ‘wolf’s den’ as in the example above, but I often do post in response to secular news articles when appropriate. I try to be intelligent, level-headed, and kind in the way I approach things, often more for the benefit of 3rd party readers, than the person I’m debating.

Also, in expecting to only be a piece of the Holy Spirit’s means, I’m not going for a conversion, just trying put a stone in their shoe (as Greg Koukl often says). I think it is crucial that when people read secular articles that are unbalanced, or certainly the responses to articles which venture into areas the Christian worldview touches, that people see some good solid Christian response amongst the lunacy.

Just imagine if we had enough trained Christian apologists that could weigh in on all the topics out there each day, and show Christianity to be at least a reasonable, if not the best response. I think that would do a lot to sway the Christian image in a positive direction. So many today just go along with the Dawkins type view of Christianity without even giving it any thought. I’ll probably not get to Dawkins, but maybe I’ll sway some of his lemming-like-followers.

Thanks for the response! I don’t have time to read your articles right now, and respond, but I will… it might be a few days. -Steve