by Karlo Broussard | May 3, 2020 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
In a previous article, I argued that John’s phrase “the day of preparation of Passover” (John 18:28) doesn’t refer to the day on which Jews prepare for Passover, but the Friday of Passover week. This resolves what some have said is a contradiction between John and the...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 8, 2020 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
The narratives of Jesus’ passion and death are among the most sacred elements of Scripture for Christians. For skeptics, however, they’re often used as a punching bag. The claim is that they’re historically unreliable because the Gospels supposedly contradict...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 8, 2020 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
Every year during Holy Week, Christians focus on those last and most important moments of Jesus’s life: his passion and death. But for some, these gospel narratives aren’t historically reliable because they apparently contradict each other in certain places. We’re...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 3, 2020 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
Whenever we’re faced with suffering and death in our lives, especially as we see the suffering and death caused by Covid-19, we can’t help but ask, “Was this how God intended it to be?” We struggle with the idea that God would have willed such suffering and death from...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 5, 2020 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
There’s one thing that theists and atheists can agree on: God’s existence is not so obvious that everyone necessarily knows it. For many, God’s failure to make his existence obvious, as compared to the existence of a friend or colleague, creates a “knowledge gap” that...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 9, 2020 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
The Catholic Church, in Humanae Vitae and other documents, condemns contraception because the person who uses it to prevent pregnancy intentionally thwarts the primary end of the sexual act, procreation (the secondary and complementary end is unitive love). This...
