The Missing Links – February 10, 2013

• In case you haven’t heard, William Lane Craig debated atheist philosopher Alex Rosenberg on February 1 at Purdue University.  The video is here, and good reviews can be found at Reasons for God, the Wintery Knight, and by J. W. Wartick.

• A self-described lesbian leftist professor describes her conversion at Christianity Today.  “I continued reading the Bible, all the while fighting the idea that it was inspired. But the Bible got to be bigger inside me than I. It overflowed into my world. I fought against it with all my might. Then, one Sunday morning, I rose from the bed of my lesbian lover, and an hour later sat in a pew at the Syracuse Reformed Presbyterian Church.”

• a Liberal-Democrat Member of Parliament and former minister, explaining why she voted against the redefinition of marriage in the British Parliament on February 5.   “My concern, however, is that by moving to a definition of marriage that no longer requires sexual difference, we will, over time, ultimately decouple the definition of marriage from family life altogether. I doubt that this change will be immediate. It will be gradual, as perceptions of what marriage is and is for shift. But we can already see the foundations for this shift in the debate about same-sex marriage. Those who argue for a change in the law do so by saying that surely marriage is just about love between two people and so is of nobody else’s business. Once the concept of marriage has become established in social consciousness as an entirely private matter about love and commitment alone, without any link to family, I fear that it will accelerate changes already occurring that makes family life more unstable.”

• Randy Everist discusses the “Evil God” argument at the Christian Apologetics Alliance blog.  Could an evil God explain morality as well as a good God?

• Wintery Knight points to several pieces of evidence for the early historicity of Jesus’ divinity.

• Mikel Del Rosario gives several tips for defending the faith without becoming defensive, which often involves asking good questions.

• Jonathan Morrow interviews Old Testament scholar C. John Collins on the days of Genesis and also takes up the question whether God is subject to human logic.