Recommended Resources

Websites

Reasonable Faith (reasonablefaith.org): William Lane Craig is somehow simultaneously an expert in philosophy, theology, cosmology, and historical Jesus studies. He is also a fearsome debater. One popular atheist writer complains

“Let me repeat. Craig has done 20+ years of Ph.D+ level research in the two fields he debates, [and] has published hundreds of academic books and papers on both subjects, and has been debating since high school. So yeah, that’s right. You [speaking to atheists worldwide] are not qualified to debate William Lane Craig.” [“How to Debate William Lane Craig,” [online at commonsensatheism.org]

Craig's site comes first for a reason. He is the only serious academic from the highest of the Ivory Towers who has successfully been able to come down and build a very popular apologetics ministry that layman can connect with. New apologetics enthusiasts may not be aware of this, but perhaps all of the apologist discussed below (as well as Lee Strobel, Ravi Zacharius, Greg Koukl etc. ) would likely admit that if Craig is ranked a 10 in terms of his knowledge base, they are ranked no higher than a 2 or 3. I know that sounds like an exaggeration; it's not.



The Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry (carm.org): Matt Slick's website is a good reasource for the beginning Christian Apologist, primarily for theology and counter-cult apologetics. He has a talent for simplifying concepts and writing in a professional yet engaging way. Christian must have their doctrine down right, and CARM is a great online way to learn it.

The Christian Think-Tank (christianthinktank.com): Glenn Miller's website (christianthinkthank.com) in many ways resembles tektonics.org. They both focus on history, both are top-notch researchers, both do pioneering work, and both have an endearing writing style. Miller's articles are usually very long and academic, so do not go in expecting light reading. The kind of research Glenn has done, the thoroughness of his knowledge-base, and the comprehensiveness that characterize his treatment of topics make his contributions some of the most important to our field. [As a side note: Glenn's site today is more of a stagnant library because he was just not financially supported enough, although he never asked. Christians should have been throwing money at this guy to keep him researching and writing full-time.]The site is a library of wonderful information that has already been published, and will be serving thousands of apologetics enthusiasts for the forseeable future.