What do Muslims Believe? A Crash Course in Islam

por Lindsey Medenwaldt

Writing about Islam can be difficult because there is tension between being honest about its history while still being respectful to those who practice it. I want to make sure I’m giving you a good foundation for understanding Islam so that you can answer any...

MBA Episode 46: Doubting Dawkins – Does the Bible Advocate Slavery? (Part 2)

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS This is part 2 of our discussion of whether the Bible advocates slavery. You can listen to part one here. Questions or ideas? Send us an email at admin@mamabearapologetics.com....

MBA Episode 45: Doubting Dawkins – Does the Bible Advocate Slavery? (Part 1)

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS Today we are continuing with our Richard Dawkins series. As we are preparing for this podcast, we acknowledge it’s a tough book to discuss because he keeps introducing individual...

MBA Episode 44: Doubting Dawkins – Do Christians Think Atheists Can’t Be Good Without God? (Part 2)

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS Today, we are back with Part 5 of our series on Richard Dawkins’s book, Outgrowing God. In this episode, we are tackling Dawkins’s question “Do Christians think Atheists can’t be...

MBA Episode 43: Doubting Dawkins – Do Christians Think Atheists Can’t Be Good Without God? (Part 1)

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS We are back to our Richard Dawkins series with Part 4. In this series, we are going over Richard Dawkins’ book, Outgrowing God. Today, we will be discussing Chapter 5, “Do We Need...

Top 5 Reasons to Attend the WIA 2020 Conference (or at least do the livestream)

por Autor invitado

We wrote another blog about what happened at the 2020 WIA Conference described below. You can find it here. Special thanks to Lisa Quintana from Women in Apologetics for contributing this article.  It’s been said, “The third time’s a charm,” and we think that the 3rd...

MBA Episode 38: Doubting Dawkins – Did God Really Advocate for Child Sacrifice in the Old Testament?

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSToday we’re continuing our critique of the Richard Dawkins book, Outgrowing God. We have been talking about his main criticisms of Christianity in each chapter. In this episode, we...

MBA Episode 37: Doubting Dawkins – “Proof,” Oral Culture, the Telephone Game, & Ancient Scribes

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSToday we’re talking about Richard Dawkins’ new book, Outgrowing God. We’re covering who Richard Dawkins is and what his book is all about. Today we are going over what we talked...

MBA Episode 36: Doubting Dawkins – A Beginner’s Guide to Better Reasoning: Intro to Richard Dawkins’ New Book

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSWe’re talking about Richard Dawkins’ new book, Outgrowing God. We’re covering who Richard Dawkins is and what his book is all about. Today we will focus on the main criticisms of...

Teaching Our Kids to Spot Empty Statements

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

John and I were at the Iowa State Fair this weekend. (My husband loves all the fried food. Calories at the fair don’t count, right?) Among our scheduled stops, we wanted to see a band that advertised itself as a mix between Stomp and Accapella. Sounds cool right? We...

The (Naked) Communist Agenda Presented at the 1963 Congressional Hearing

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

Okay, so this blog has been a long time coming. When writing the Marxism chapter in the first Mama Bear Apologetics book, I promised to publish the list of communist goals, and I failed to do so. But I just received another email reminding me of my promise, so better...

What do Jehovah’s Witnesses believe?

por Lindsey Medenwaldt

At the outset, I want to say that I have never been a Jehovah’s Witness (JW), and no one in my family is/was a Jehovah’s Witness. This is important because JWs are not permitted to read anything by ex-members of the church. Therefore, any JW who has stumbled upon this...

A Crash Course in Judaism

por Lindsey Medenwaldt

When you think about Judaism, what comes to mind? When I was growing up, we had a menorah in our house that we’d light for Hanukkah even though we weren’t Jewish, and I remember Adam Sandler’s famous song about all the famous people who are Jewish (which we included...

Why did God Create the Tree in the First Place?

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

A few weeks ago, our church’s 3rd-5th graders were learning about the creation story from Genesis, and I was brought in to the planning process to help address common science misconceptions that the kids will encounter as they get older. (i.e. “Science can disprove...

Congratulations! You’ve defended the Bible. Now what do you do with it?

por Autor invitado

Typically when I go to different venues to speak or teach, I begin by explaining the importance of being able to defend your faith. I illustrate the kinds of questions that we as Christians must be prepared to answer. We are in a time where we can’t just quote...

Why Your Children DO Need Apologetics: Correcting Misconceptions

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

This weekend, a blog was released titled “Why Your Children do NOT Need Apologetics.” In it, apologetics was characterized as a fear-based recitation of doctrines which “denies the realities of human experience.” I suspect that it was written in response to the blog...

If your “rules for righteousness” would have condemned Jesus as a sinner… you might want to rethink your rules.

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

I had an interesting interaction with a sweet, well-meaning woman on Twitter today in response to the Dallas Observer ‘s article on “The Bible and Beer Consortium.” It should come as no surprise that she was questioning Christian freedom to imbibe alcohol, sending me...

The Importance of Incorporating Doubt Into Our Children’s Worldviews

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

The last 2 blog posts, we discussed the importance of incorporating suffering and rejection into our children’s wordviews. The final piece of the puzzle is allowing space for doubt. When doubt is not incorporated into the Christian worldview, bad things happen....

The Importance of Incorporating Rejection Into Our Children’s Worldviews

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

In the previous post, we discussed the necessity of teaching our kids that suffering is not evidence against God, but rather a part of living in a fallen and broken world. Jesus did not come to save us from everything in the world, at least not at the present time....

The Importance of Incorporating Suffering Into Our Children’s Worldviews

por Hillary Morgan Ferrer

A coherent, Christian worldview anticipates the storms of life. In interacting with people who have walked away from the faith, I have uncovered three main themes that were not integrated with their view of Christ in a healthy way. Thus, when the storms came, these...