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podcasts. Today we are talking about a new book from

1517 publishing, a reasoned defense of the faith, collected essays in Christian apologetics.

This was written. I would say, Adam, this is collected essays by you. So this was written over many years,

I'm guessing, and then edited together, or did you sit down and write this book? No, yeah,

it's just collected essays from the past. It's sort of in the spirit of Montgomery's faith

founded on fact in the sense it's, you know, previous, not everything in here is previously published, but a lot.

And it's from not all, but a few obscure sources that you would just put, you couldn't even get online.

So I thought, I'll put it all together.

Mostly because I was hoping, I'm hoping to use it and others might use it for, like, a class, you know, because they're short, a lot of them are short chapters on select topics and apologetics, more along the lines of not in methodology, but kind of classic traditional apologetics.

So nothing, nothing, what's the word, not in methodology, but kind of classic traditional apologetics. So nothing,

um, nothing, what's the word like edgy or anything like that? It's just, uh, yeah.

There's a, um, there's a bias in here. I'm noticing. There's a lot of chapters on Islam,

uh, in here, which is, I think, good and interesting.

A lot of, I don't know, I don't think a lot of, no, I'm not surprised, but not a lot of

popular apologetic works to deal with Islam for more than a chapter or more than including

it in sort of the world religions section on this.

And we've talked about a little bit in the past that apologetics has changed in the

West in the United States or at least the the apologetic demand on Christians with sort of

the decline of the popularity of new atheism but there is a rise in alternative religions or alternative

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