Dr Craig's Interview in the New York Times
Reasonable Faith Podcast
William Lane Craig
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:13.0 | Start spreading the news. I'm leaving today. What a great opportunity for Reasonable Faith. |
| 0:18.0 | Dr Craig is interviewed in the New York Times by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nicholas Christoph. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to Reasonable Faith with Dr. William Lane Craig. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm Kevin Harris. |
| 0:27.7 | Today, we'll go behind the scenes with Dr. Craig |
| 0:31.5 | and reveal the whole process of how the interview was conducted |
| 0:35.0 | this past December 2018. |
| 0:37.0 | What questions and answers were left out |
| 0:40.0 | and Dr Craig's strategy in dealing with the questions that Nicholas Christoff asked. |
| 0:45.8 | And as you can imagine, a firestorm of criticism from non-Christians as well as some Christians has flared up as a result of the interview. |
| 0:56.0 | Dr Craig talks about that as well on the way. |
| 0:59.4 | In the meantime, we'd like to ask you to prayerfully consider a financial gift to reasonable |
| 1:03.8 | faith this month. Any size donation is so appreciated as we know so many of you who |
| 1:09.2 | are listening appreciate apologetics and philosophy presented in an intelligent way. |
| 1:15.0 | So please click the donate link at reasonable faith.org and we thank you so much. |
| 1:20.0 | Dr Craig, you received quite a Christmas gift this past Christmas 2018 |
| 1:27.0 | when Nicholas Christoph of the New York Times invited you to be interviewed for a Christmas peace. |
| 1:35.0 | What was the genesis of this entire scenario? |
| 1:38.0 | Our former executive director of reasonable faith, |
| 1:41.0 | Chris Shannon, was somehow in touch with Nicholas Christoph and put us together |
| 1:46.6 | and Christoph sent me a list of questions to which then I could respond in writing. So the interview was not personally |
| 1:57.8 | conducted, it was a written interview. This allowed me to craft my answers carefully because there was a very severe |
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