Know what you believe. And know how to say it.
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All questionsHey! I’m Charlie.
I write these, one at a time, from whatever I have been reading that week. I hope the one you came for was clear — and if it was not, I would rather hear it than not.
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All topicsExistence of God
Whether there is a God at all, and what the case for one actually rests on.
9 questionsDeity of Christ
Who Jesus claimed to be, what his first followers believed about him, and how to answer the objections that come up most.
16 questionsThe Bible
Where the text came from, how it reached us, and whether it can be trusted.
4 questionsThe Resurrection
The claim the whole faith stands or falls on, and the evidence offered for it.
7 questionsSuffering & Evil
The hardest question asked of Christians, answered without flinching from it.
6 questionsScience & Faith
Where the two are said to collide, and where they were never in conflict.
7 questionsOther Religions
What other faiths and movements teach, and where the real differences lie.
9 questionsSalvation
What Christians mean by grace, faith, and being saved.
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The anatomy
How an answer is built
Five moves, always in this order. Once you know the shape you can go straight to the part you need.
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The short answer
The three lines you could use in the conversation you are already having.
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The case
What Christians actually claim, explained before anything is defended.
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Objections answered
The replies that come back, taken seriously rather than brushed aside.
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How to say it
The moves, in order, for the conversation you are actually going to have.
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Where traditions differ
What all Christians hold, and where they genuinely part.
What’s coming
The other half of this: saying it out loud.
Knowing something and being able to say it are different skills, and the second is the older of the two. These texts were spoken, argued and recited for centuries before most people could read them at all.
Pause
Where a sentence breathes, and what a silence is doing.
Emphasis
Which word carries the weight, and what moves when it changes.
Rhythm
Why some lines stay with you and the same content, reordered, does not.
Arrangement
The order that makes an argument land, rather than merely be correct.
Prosodic and rhetorical principles, drawn from the text itself. In research now — it will appear here when there is something worth saying about it.