Brian Auten has put together an e-book titled Is Christianity True? from the essays contributed by various bloggers (including myself). It can be downloaded here in PDF (my article, Christianity Explains Logic, starts on page 115). It is also available in Kindle format, Mobi, ePub, and podcast.
The table of contents below reflects the order of release from April 2010:
Hey everyone, I wanted to write and let you know that I had my first week of classes for this semester this past week and it has cut into my blogging time. I’m taking Greek, church history up to the reformation, and a missions class (all relevant to the mission of this website/blog). I’m hoping to integrate my reading and assignments into content for the site. So far I’ve put together a chart for the Greek alphabet. More Greek resources will soon become available (please let me know if they are helpful).
My goal is not not to drop off the face of the earth during the semester. I’m going to keep posting but the posts will be shorter and more blurb-like. After-all, there are many competent theologians and apologists out there. Lets keep an eye on them ;)
I would like to take this chance to welcome the new folks who have recently become fans on EOA’s Facebook fan page. Most of the new fans are here by invite from my Facebook group I am a Calvinist.
Please feel free to invite your friends who you think might be interested in apologetics. Your comments and participation is welcomed and encouraged. God Bless :)
Here is a snapshot of the number of likes. Notice the spike on the far right side.
Haaretz.com is reporting that the Muslim leaders behind the plans to build a mosque two blocks from the former sites of the world trade center will drop their plans in an attempt to avoid more bad press. If this report ends up being factual it will likely achieve this end. It is atrocious that the plans were made in the first place. With utter disregard for those who died, how can any Muslim group want to erect a monument of the cause for which so much innocent life was lost?
Found this on Melissa Cain Travis’ Facebook. According to this article from ESPN, the Football team at Fordson High School in Dearborn, MI is holding practice from 11pm to 4am so it will not interrupt Ramadan.
I wonder if the Christian Students get such preferential treatment at Fordson High when their church activities conflict with school events. I know when I was in high school they didn’t make special exceptions for any religion.
This is a single brick in a wall that says the City of Dearborn treats their Muslim population with special rights that are not enjoyed by non-Muslims.
I have undertaken a somewhat larger task of adding the King James Version and the American Standard Version of the Bible to EOA. So far I have added Genesis and Exodus for each version. In case you are wondering, I don’t regularly use those versions in my theology or apologetic. They are going up because they are not copyrighted. They will be of use for some, but not for others.
Feel free to suggest any other documents whose copyright has expired that I should put up on the site. I’ll do the best I can to get them up there in a timely fashion!
In the police report from June 18th, a Christian volunteer at the Dearborn International Arab Festival named Roger Williams made a criminal complaint against 4 other Christians. He claimed that (see the PDF above, page 10 and 11):
he had been harassed by a film crew
he advised the subjects (David, Nabeel, Negeen and Paul) that
he did not want to be filmed
he wanted them to stop filming
they surrounded him and continued to film despite his request
he attempted to leave several times
they continued to pester and badger him with questions while filming him
after pestering and badgering he again asked them to stop filming
after all this (harassment, pestering, badgering, surrounding, questioning, filming) David, Nabeel, and Paul stopped filming but Negeen continued to film from further away
Negeen filmed within hearing distance
The police report includes a record of the conversation between the officer (Brian Kapanowski) and David, Nabeel and Paul held en route to the police station (this report is not entirely accurate according to Nabeel, more to come on that later).
En Route to the station, Qureshi, Wood, and Rezkalla asked me about the allegations. I explained they were under arrest for Breach of Peace and explained the allegations against them. Without questioning, they stated that they never “surrounded” Williams. Qureshi and Wood added they did film him speaking with another individual who supposedly was distributing pamphlets against City Ordinance. When they began confronting Williams about the conversation, Qureshi and Wood stated he did ask them to stop filming but they continued and repeated the questions. After being asked by Williams again, Qureshi lowered the microphone and instructed Wood to stop filming. Wood stated he stopped filming Williams but did not shut the camcorder off in order to catch the conversation on film. After brief conversation with Williams, they stated Williams radioed for security and they continued to ask him questions including why he needed to call for security. They later left and saw a female taking pictures of them so they filmed her doing same. Qureshi, Wood, and Rezkalla stated the reason they were filming at ArabFest in the first place was in response to an incident last year involving security assaulting them. They wanted everyone at the festival to know of “the injustice and brutality”.
If you watch this video and can see the obvious (that Roger Williams was not harassed, pestered or badgered by Acts 17, and that he was able to walk away at any time) then you must consider the following.
The Dearborn Police have had this footage in their possession for over 7 weeks. They know that Williams was not honest or accurate when he made his complaint on June 18th. Why then haven’t they dropped the court case? Why did Dearborn Mayor John O’Reilly write an open letter to everyone who emailed him knowing that their charges were based on mis-information?
Why did the Dearborn Police withhold the video footage (along with thousands of dollars worth of audio/video equipment) for 25 days? Was this so that the mayor could go on television and lie about Acts 17? So he could send out his letter and make all kinds of false claims without that annoying footage available online which would contradict him?
Since there is an obvious discrepancy from a key individual who initiated the false arrests why not drop everything and apologize? I propose that there is more going on here than an honest concern for justice and American Law. It may be the Dearborn City government catering to a voting Arab population. It could be retaliation over the embarrassing video of Acts 17 being harassed in Dearborn last year (in which the police bought into more lies from festival workers, btw)? Without stating for sure what the motive is for this illegal denial of 1st amendment rights it is clear that it was based on Williams false testimony from the start and it has been going because of a bias in the Dearborn government since Williams gave them an opportunity to act.
David Wood and Nabeel Qureshi (two of the Dearborn Four) will be speaking at Our Strong Tower, a one day apologetics conference to be held at 1st Evangelical Free Church in Fullerton CA. David will be speaking on “Muhammad: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” and “The “Crucifixion: Truth or Fiction?” Nabeel will be speaking on “Jesus: Prophet of Allah or Divine Son of God?” and “Is the Qur’an divine?”
Other speakers for the main event will include Pastor George Saieg on “Facing the Challenge.” OST Youth will feature Dr. Cornelius, Ken Sands and Edward Dalcour. OST kids will features a Dawah Puppet Show by the Puppet Ministry of Calvary Chapel Anaheim.
Tickets are $10/person (ages 4+) or $20/family. Tickets may be purchased at the door. Call 714-391-0463 for discount rates.
For more information please visit here. The pre-conference event starts at 8:45 and the apologetics conference will go from 10am to 3pm.
Brian Auten has put together an e-book titled Is Christianity True? from the essays contributed by various bloggers (including myself). It can be downloaded here in PDF (my article, Christianity Explains Logic, starts on page 115). It is also available in Kindle format, Mobi, ePub, and podcast.
