November 2006 Archives
I'll be attending what looks to be a great apologetics conference next weekend. The 2006 Apologetics Conference at McLean Bible Church here in Northern Virginia boasts a great line-up of speakers--all presenting in person. Thinkers such as JP Moreland, NT Wright, William Lane Craig, Craig Blomberg, and Michael Murray will be there, as well as many others. It looks like there is a overall session each day followed by individual topic workshops. The workshop topics are the same each day with different speakers presenting each time. The topics are Creation and Intelligent Design (Michael Behe will be speaking), New Testament Reliability--Focus on Gospels, World Religions and New Movements, Contemporary Barriers to Faith, and a Student Track. For reasons that I'll explain at a later date, I'll be avoiding the Creation/ID workshops. In fact, I'll probably stick to the Contemporary Barriers to Faith because I like the speaker line-up: Michael Murray (philosopher)on belief in God and the brain, Doug Geivett on pluralism, NT Wright on evil and the justice of God, and David Horner on moral apologetics. The organizers recently added a screening of Lee Strobel's forthcoming film "Case for a Creater" based on his book of the same title.
I'm sure I'll have plenty of thoughts to post after the conference.
I was hesitant to start a blog for many reasons, including the burden of posting regularly. My wife became very ill not long after I started this blog and that slowed me down. However, I have no excuse over the past few weeks for failing to post. My friend Mike has accepted the challenge to post in his blog every day in November in recognition of National Blog Posting Month or NaBloPoMo for short. Whereas I am not up for that challenge (clearly), I have decided to get off my butt and start posting again.
