Mama Bear Apologetics

Jenga is a game about seeing how many foundational pieces of a structure can be removed and/or repositioned before it finally collapses. While this game was never intended to have philosophical undertones, I think it is an apt analogy for what we see occurring in some churches, and particularly the movement known as “progressive” Christianity. […]The post MBA 24: “Progressive” Christianity… and WHY you need to understand it appeared first on Mama Bear Apologetics.

I have noticed a tendency for people to fall into one of two categories: the terrifying truth-tellers, and the compassionate compromisers. The terrifying truth-tellers are ready at a moment’s notice to call out heresy or unbiblical beliefs wherever they are found, but often create division over secondary matters, or become so obnoxious that the aroma […]The post MBA 23: How to Love Your Ideological Enemy appeared first on Mama Bear Apologetics.

Just a few short months ago, I was reading an article titled “Why Would an Engineer-Turned-Mom Care so Deeply About Apologetics?” As soon as I saw the words “Mom” and “Apologetics” in the title, I knew I had to find out more about this Cathryn Buse lady. I immediately bought her book on kindle, and […]The post MBA 22: Introducing Cathryn Buse (and a recap of the apologetics conference) appeared first on Mama Bear Apologetics.

Normally, when Rebekah and I do an “article of the week,” it is because the content is so awesome that we want to share and discuss. This time… not so much. A week or so before Easter, a highly disturbing article written by a woman professing to be a children’s pastor at a “progressive Christian church” started […]The post MBA 21: Is the Progressive Gospel a Gospel at All? (i.e. Why you need to know what your children’s pastor is teaching) appeared first on Mama Bear Apologetics.

The Lord of the Rings is a timeless classic, able to capture the minds of young and old alike. But apart from its singularly masterful writing and vivid imagery, The Lord of the Rings has an element of theological truths interwoven into its very fabric in such a way that even the most hardened skeptic […]The post MBA 20: I was an Atheist Until I Read <i>Lord of the Rings</i> appeared first on Mama Bear Apologetics.

The book The Shack first began making waves in 2007, and here we are 10 years later, still a church divided. Some people love The Shack, others practically want to have The Shack burning parties. Very rarely has someone read it and remained neutral. As with most things in pop culture, the truth is somewhere in between. […]The post MBA 19: The Shack – Hope, Healing… and Heresy? appeared first on Mama Bear Apologetics.

“It is often said with a sneer that the God of Israel was only a God of Battles, ‘a mere barbaric Lord of Hosts’ pitted in rivalry against other gods only as their envious foe.” (From “The Everlasting Man” by G.K. Chesterton) It is indeed often said with a mocking and dismissive sneer that the […]The post MBA 18: Why Does the God of the Old Testament Seem So Different from the God of the New Testament? appeared first on Mama Bear Apologetics.

At Mama Bear Apologetics, our motto is “Mess with our kids, and we will demolish your arguments.” For those who have seen the carnage wrought by the battle of ideas, this tagline makes immediate sense. For others, the question becomes “Is that a Christian attitude? Isn’t demolishing things too aggressive for Christians?” The short answer to […]The post MBA 17: Discussing the Mama Bear Tagline – Isn’t “Demolishing Arguments” a Bit Harsh? appeared first on Mama Bear Apologetics.

When I posted the blog this weekend dissecting the “Guiding Vision and Definition of Principles” from the women’s march, I never expected the kind of attention that it would receive. And while I stand behind my words, that one post was never intended to be my defining moment. I value balance, and there is only […]The post MBA 16: Addressing the Divide From the Women’s March appeared first on Mama Bear Apologetics.

The question of eyewitness reliability is a pertinent conversation that every parent will have (or should have) when their child asks, “How do we know that we can trust the Bible?” If the New Testament documents are not reliable, and if the people writing the New Testament documents were not reliable, what leg does our […]The post MBA 15: Are the New Testament Eyewitnesses Reliable: The Flashbulb Memory Objection appeared first on Mama Bear Apologetics.