FIRST-PERSON: Should you believe in ghosts?
Fascination with ghosts prompts Rob Phillips, Missouri Baptists' director of communications, to ponder what the Bible teaches about the popular phenomenon.
FIRST-PERSON: Is God guilty of genocide?
Columnist and apologist Rob Phillips deals with the tough Old Testament texts in which God orders the murder of seemingly innocent people.
FIRST-PERSON: What young atheists can teach us
Apologetics columnist Rob Phillips recounts some lessons that can be learned from young atheists' journeys to unbelief, including that the churches they attended fell short.
FIRST-PERSON: The way a discussion about homosexuality should go
Discussing the issue of homosexuality can be difficult, says columnist Rob Phillips, who provides answers to some of the more pointed questions.
‘Proof of Heaven’: questions for Dr. Alexander
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP) — Christian apologetics is more than being ready to give an answer to anyone who asks a reason for the hope in us (1 Peter 3:15). Sometimes it means asking tough questions of those who deny or sincerely misunderstand the Christian faith. A case in point is Eben Alexander, a celebrated […]
FIRST-PERSON: How the world will end
Columnist Rob Phillips gives seven biblical truths to explain why believers should not fear the world will end Dec. 21 as the Mayan calendar indicates.
FIRST-PERSON: Why do Christians suffer?
Horatio G. Spafford's loss of his son to scarlet fever and his four daughters at sea led him to pen the famous hymn, "It Is Well with My Soul." Rob Phillips of the Missouri Baptist Convention examines why Christians suffer.
FIRST-PERSON: Jihad’s ultimate tragedy
Muslim concepts of jihad will never attain what Christ's death on the cross attained – "peace with God, eternal life and an intimate, everlasting relationship with the sovereign Creator of the universe," apologetics expert Rob Phillips writes.
FIRST-PERSON: Jihad’s ultimate tragedy
Muslim concepts of jihad will never attain what Christ's death on the cross attained – "peace with God, eternal life and an intimate, everlasting relationship with the sovereign Creator of the universe," apologetics expert Rob Phillips writes.
Climate: Millennials concerned, not fanatical
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Nearly 9 in 10 American "Millennials" -- those born between 1980 and 1991 -- say it's up to their generation to clean up the environment, but a majority also believe that many Millennials go overboard when it comes to environmental issues.
