Hey friends, Elisa Childers here. I am so excited to bring you today's guest, Dr. Frank

Turek. What is it like to go on to hostile college campuses and present evidence for Christianity?

What does it mean that atheists need God to make their case? We're going to talk about those things with Frank and more on today's podcast.

My guest today is Dr. Frank Turek, a speaker and author of four books, including the book that I always recommend to people

who want a really good starter apologetics book. And that's called I don't have enough faith to be an atheist, which is co-written with Norm Geisler.

Frank presents evidence for Christianity in churches, high schools, and secular college campuses that are often hostile to the message that he's bringing.

He has also debated several prominent atheists, including Christopher Hitchens and David Silverman, who's the president of American atheists.

He has a weekly radio program called Cross-Examined with Frank Turek. And that airs on 186 stations every Saturday morning.

But you can also find that content on his free app, the Cross-Examined app. And most importantly, Frank is the reason that I even have a blog and a podcast.

So if you listen to this podcast or you read my blog, you can thank Frank or you can blame Frank, depending on how much you like the content that you find here on this site.

So Frank, thanks so much for being with me today.

They're all sending me emails of thanks.

Okay, good.

So they loved you. Come on. We know that.

Well, I went to your Cross-Examined instructor academy a couple years ago in 2016. And I've told you that it was a life-changing experience for me, obviously.

And this year's CIA is in August. It's August 16th through the 18th in Plano, Texas.

So for any listeners who may be interested in apologetics or even interested in teaching apologetics on even a local level at their church or even with a broader audience, Frank, what is the Cross-Examined instructor academy?

It's a place where we try and train people how to better present the evidence for Christianity and how to answer questions more effectively.

And we've been doing it for over 10 years now. And it's not just me. It's Greg Cocoal. It's J. Warner Wallace, Brett Conkel.

It's Bobby Conway, Richard Howe, Sean McDowell, Nautasha Crane, as part of a teaching team, or a Gill.

So we have a lot of people who can help you if you're interested in presenting this kind of material on how to present it better and how to deal more effectively with objections and questions.

And really more of a place you can come, not just, not just easy for me to say, not just to get content, but also to get tactics on how to present. That's really what it's all about.

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