Dr Craig looking at the last half of 2018 a lot of exciting things happened and it seemed to all

culminate Crescendo and to the New York Times interview which we'll be

talking about. Let's reflect a little bit on what's been going on with

reasonable faith. Has it been going? Well I spent the second part of the year

mainly in my study working on my project on the historical atom and this has just been so interesting to me. I've

learned so much and I'm beginning to write up some of the results of what I've been studying.

But in addition to that I was able to do a little bit of traveling and speaking.

I was invited to give the Sophia Forum lectures at

a zusa Pacific University.

And I spoke there in defense of a penal

substitutionary theory of the atonement, arguing for both its coherence and for its morality or justification.

And this these lectures went really well Kevin.

I thought one of the most meaningful aspects of it to me

was the reaction of a female theology professor at a p u the first day that I spoke she stood up in the question and

answer time was very skeptical very challenging press me hard and I answered her

objections and then the second day I gave my talk on the

justification of penal substitution and afterwards the faculty all went out for

dinner together and over dinner she sat across the table from me, looked at

me and said, well, I have to say I never imagined that anyone could make penal substitutionary

theory look as attractive as you have made it.

And I took that as a tremendous compliment, even to just move her opinion a little bit in the

direction of what I take to be a biblical theory of the

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