Apologetics Profile

We live in an age where the scientific definition of what it means to be human is not only radically different than the biblical understanding of our existence, but that the scientific view trumps any theologically informed beliefs about what it means to be created in God's image. Our imageo Dei is reduced to a matter of feeling and personal opinion, nothing more.  Our guest this week is philosoph...

Today we launch a two-part episode featuring philosopher Dr. Paul Tyson talking about his book, A Theology of Science . We take modern science quite for granted today, hardly ever thinking about where it came from or how it became to be the dominant cultural paradigm of our time. Science seems to dictate virtually every aspect of our lives. From the vastness of the cosmos to every bird of the air...

BONUS EPISODE - This podcast is the conclusion of a special mid-week bonus interview with Pastor David Marini of Calvary Chapel in Chapel Hill, North Carolina . Pastor David just recently was interviewed by an atheist street epistemology practitioner and shares his experience with us on our next two episodes.  We hope the insights learned from Pastor Marini's encounter can encourage, strengthen an...

This is a special mid-week, two-part interview with Pastor David Marini of Calvary Chapel in Chapel Hill, North Carolina . Pastor David just recently was interviewed by an atheist street epistemology practitioner and shares his experience with us on our next two episodes.  We hope the insights learned from Pastor Marini's encounter can encourage, strengthen and guide other Christians who may encou...

Does science rule out any possibility of the supernatural? Do natural properties and causes account for everything that exists? This episode is part two of Brady Blevins' and Daniel Ray's discussion critiquing the worldview of philosophical naturalism from a Christian perspective. Dr. Brady Blevins , Senior Apologist with Watchman Fellowship, is a featured speaker and writer with the ministry. He...

Do natural properties and causes account for everything that exists? Does science rule out any possibility of the supernatural? In this two-part podcast, Brady Blevins and Daniel Ray discuss the worldview of philosophical naturalism. Dr. Brady Blevins , Senior Apologist with Watchman Fellowship, is a featured speaker and writer with the ministry. He also serves as the editor of our Profile Noteboo...

For Christians, what is the proper way to think about bioethics and bioengineering? What moral limits should be placed upon bioengineering research and development? Will science give us the ability to live forever, apart from God Himself? On part two of our conversation with philosopher, apologist and author,  Dr. Douglas Groothius (GROW-tice), we unpack some ways through these questions and help...

Our guest this week and next, philosopher Dr. Douglas Groothuis (pronounced GROW-tice), unpacks and helps us better understand the foundation behind these ideas and shows us that we as Christians have no reason to fear contributing sound biblical and theological answers to these important topics. Douglas Groothuis earned his PhD from the University of Oregon and has been a faculty member at Denver...

Our guest this week on Apologetics Profile, Christian philosopher Dr. Paul Gould , sits down with us to provide the True and Good Story of why the laws of the universe exist in the first place and why there is order, unity, harmony, and beauty at the heart of modern science's quest for a theory of everything. Paul wrote his latest book, A Good and True Story , with the atheist and skeptic in mind....

On the next two episodes of Apologetics Profile we sit down with Christian philosopher, avid outdoorsman, and father, Dr. Paul Gould to talk about his latest book A Good and True Story. It is an apologetic work written in the prose of story and narrative, written with unbelievers and skeptics in mind. Paul translates the philosophical and scientific arguments into an inviting and compelling story...

Please consider a tax-deductible end-of-year donation at watchman.org/Give . Daniel Grissom was one of Jehovah's Witnesses when he first connected with James Walker and the Watchman Fellowship ministry team. By God's grace, Daniel left the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society for the grace of Jesus Christ and now serves on our Board of Directors. In this episode (Part Two), we conclude our discussio...

Please consider a tax-deductible end-of-year donation at watchman.org/Give . Daniel Grissom was one of Jehovah's Witnesses when he first connected with James Walker and the Watchman Fellowship ministry team. Daniel left the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society for the grace of Jesus Christ and now serves on our Board of Directors. Daniel's testimony is a rebroadcast first published in 2020. In part...

Knowing what you believe, why you believe it and how to compassionately share your faith in Christ are invaluable hallmarks of being ambassadors for Christ and His kingdom. On part two of our conversation with apologist and author Greg Koukl , we explore the problems with truth and morality in a naturalistic worldview and how we as believers can and should take time to understand these problems in...

Christian apologist Greg Koukl 's best-selling book, Tactics , has had remarkable success since it was first published in 2000. Greg's counsel and advice for how to formulate "a Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions" continues to be an encouragement for many. On this two-part conversation, Watchman's staff apologist Daniel Ray talks "tactics" with Greg, as he shares more invaluable i...

Mike Rinder, former senior executive of Scientology , continues his discussion with James Walker about his new book A Billion Years . Scientology sued James and Watchman Fellowship for $9.5 million then infiltrated Watchman's offices with spies. For legal reasons, Watchman has spoken very little about this publicly until this podcast. Mike Rinder , who headed up Scientology's Office of Special Aff...

Mike Rinder, former senior executive of the Church of Scientology , sits down with James Walker, Watchman Fellowship president, to talk about his new book A Billion Years . Scientology sued James and Watchman Fellowship for $9.5 million then infiltrated Watchman offices in Texas and Alabama with spies. For legal reasons, Watchman has spoken very little about this publicly until this podcast. Mike...

FREE AUTOGRAPHED BOOK -- For a chance to receive a free signed copy of Travis Dickinson’s new book, email Daniel Ray with your name and a physical mailing address at DRay@watchman.org. One recipient will be selected at random (USA only). If doubt is a virtue, then would it not be virtuous  to doubt our doubts? Doubting your doubts about your faith in Christ is what our guest this week, Professor o...

"Wandering Toward God Finding Faith Among Doubts and Big Questions" with Travis Dickinson [Part 1] When it comes to doubting your faith, there are two extremes. One is to embrace and celebrate doubt as a virtuous and infallible foundation for epistemological bliss. The other extreme is that any form of doubt is sin and should not ever be entertained in the mind of a believer. But what does the Bib...

Many aberrant religious movements which identify as Christian will twist the Gospel of grace making their followers partially responsible for saving themselves through legalistic, works-righteous doctrines and practices. If Jesus is not enough for salvation, if our salvation depends even in the slightest degree upon something we must do it is not finally the true Christian doctrine of justificatio...

On the next two episodes of Apologetics Profile, Watchman senior apologist Brady Blevins sits down with apologist, author, and theologian Edward Dalcour to talk about one particular trinitarian heresy known as modalism and its prevalence throughout the movement known as the United Pentecostal Church International. Edward identifies and unpacks the errors of modalism within the UPCI and gives us a...

Our guest again this week is author, apologist, and missionary to Latter-Day Saints Eric Johnson who shares with us insights and helpful advice from his new book Introducing Christianity to Mormons . Eric gives a comprehensive overview of the basics of Christian doctrine and outlines how we can best engage Mormons with the truth of the Gospel.   Eric Johnson has been a student of Mormonism since 1...

This week and next on Apologetics Profile, President of Watchman Fellowship and former fourth-generation Latter-Day Saint James Walker sits down with Eric Johnson to discuss his new book, Introducing Christianity to Mormons , and give you some sound doctrinal and practical insights in to how best to engage current and former Mormons with the truth of the Gospel. Eric Johnson has been a student of...

Jesus has equipped each of us with spiritual gifts and abilities to reach others with the Gospel. We are created for good works which God prepared beforehand that we may walk in them. But we are called to go to those who do not know Jesus Christ as Lord, whether that's foreign country, a local coffee shop, the workplace, or on a street corner.  Our guest this week on Apologetics Profile is Christi...

Shortly after the founder of the Worldwide Church of God, Herbert W. Armstrong died in 1986, the organization, under the new leadership of Joseph Tkach, Sr., began a remarkable transformation. They slowly jettisoned the cultic and erroneous doctrines of Armstrong and began reexamining the nature of God. By so doing, they began doing away with false doctrine and legalistic restrictions. Eventually...

What was the Worldwide Church of God? Who founded it? What happened to it?  On the next two episodes of Apologetics Profile president of Watchman Fellowship James K. Walker talks with a former member of the Worldwide Church of God, Mark Tabladillo. Mark shares with James a remarkable story of the improbable transformation of Herbert W. Armstrong's heretical sect into an evangelical denomination. R...