Public review draft
Independent, evidence-first critiques of Greg Koukl’s Stand to Reason and Frank Turek’s I Don’t Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST. Explore arguments about God, Christianity, morality, and faith through transcript-grounded analysis of evidence, logic, and cognitive bias.
Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast
The five most recent public critiques from the Stand to Reason corpus. Full transcripts remain in the separated private podcast assets.
November 4, 2026
Koukl’s strongest material contribution is his insistence that Christianity, if true, is not merely a private mood or lifestyle brand. That point is worth preserving. But the episode…
October 30, 2026
This episode is strongest when Koukl admits confusion about prayer and tries to distinguish pastoral surrender from mechanical transaction. It is weakest when those admissions are insulated…
October 28, 2026
This episode argues that beauty and ethical discourse are objective, that moral non-realists cannot coherently raise the problem of evil, that God is the necessary ground of goodness, that…
October 23, 2026
This episode is strongest when it treats parental fear, apology, and family formation with humane seriousness. It is weakest when it converts those pastoral realities into theological…
October 21, 2026
This episode is strongest when it models close textual attention and admits uncertainty about hard interpretive questions. It is weakest when it converts sparse biblical references into…
I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST
The five most recent public critiques from the CrossExamined corpus, rendered through the same critique workflow and display system.
November 3, 2026
The episode is strongest as an insider guide to differences between evangelical Christianity, Mormonism, Islam, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. It is weakest when it treats Protestant orthodoxy as…
October 30, 2026
This episode mixes legitimate cautions about archaeological hype with sweeping theological, political, and historical overclaims. The strongest moments are Johnston’s insistence on peer…
October 27, 2026
This episode argues that the New Testament writers told the truth about Jesus because their writings contain embarrassing material, demanding teachings, difficult resurrection details…
October 23, 2026
This episode gives a confident Christian defense of free enterprise by defining socialism narrowly, praising billionaire wealth creation, distinguishing Acts from state socialism, blaming…
October 20, 2026
This episode is strongest when it urges interpretive humility inside Christianity over the age of the earth. It is weakest when that humility disappears in claims about evolution…
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