This is a Christian apologetics website that treats skeptical arguments with the seriousness that they deserve.

I’m sympathetic to skeptical arguments because I was once a skeptic myself.  After growing up in a fundamentalist Christian tradition – and remaining faithful to that tradition for several years as an adult while I zealously defended my beliefs using the best arguments I could from Josh McDowell, C. S. Lewis, and other popular Christian apologists – I lost my faith after earning a Ph.D. in history.  The historical claims of Christianity didn’t add up, I decided, so I walked away from the faith.  For a short time, I attended a Unitarian congregation and called myself an “agnostic deist.”  Following that, I spent about two years in liberal Protestant churches as I slowly tried to find a way to hold onto some version of the faith that didn’t require a belief in substitutionary atonement, everlasting punishment, or biblical inerrancy.  But God continued to work on my heart and brought me to a real conversion.  I am now a Reformed evangelical Christian, fully convinced of my need for a Savior and grateful to God for his saving grace.  I also believe in the infallibility and historicity of Scripture.

My conversion was the work of the Holy Spirit.  But in the process of changing my heart, God also helped me to see that the case for Christianity can be defended with reasoned arguments, and that the arguments that I once made against Christianity were based on false assumptions.

On this site, you won’t find many of the arguments that some of the popular apologists whom I used to read have made, because I think that skeptics are right to reject many of those arguments as too simplistic.  Instead, I’m going to draw on some of the best strands of the Reformed Protestant tradition – supplemented with information that I have gained from my own historical study – to address the objections that skeptics have.

If you’re tired of reading simplistic responses to skeptical arguments, I hope that you’ll give this site a chance.  I’m not going to try to offer watertight proofs for Christianity or claim that easy answers to objections exist when they don’t.  But I will present some of the arguments that I have found persuasive.  More importantly, I’m going to draw on my historical research and theological studies to help you understand how a wide variety of Christians and skeptics from different perspective have answered some of the most common questions that people ask about God and the universe, and I’ll give you the information that you need to continue your own investigation of these important matters.

Regardless of whether you’re a skeptic, a Christian, or simply someone seeking truth, I hope that you’ll be willing to join me on this journey of inquiry by clicking on some of the links above and exploring some possible answers to the most perplexing questions people ask about the Christian faith.  And if your question isn’t addressed on this site – or isn’t addressed in a satisfactory manner – please click on the “contact” link to send me an email.  I’ll be delighted to hear from you.

– Daniel K. Williams

Daniel K. Williams is a professor of history at the University of West Georgia.  He holds a Ph.D. in history from Brown University, and a B.A. in history and classics from Case Western Reserve University.  He is the author of two books (God’s Own Party and Defenders of the Unborn) on religion and politics in the modern United States. 

 

The content on this website does not represent the views of the History Department or the administration of the University of West Georgia, and is not connected with either of these entities in any way.