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A typical issue carries four sections: a reader's question answered, a piece written by someone on our team, the newest Faith Informed episode, and where our speakers will be next.
A letter for people who ask hard questions and want the reasoning, not just the answer. Written by our own team and sent every other month.
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The Letter
This is a letter for people who ask hard questions — and want the reasoning shown , not asserted. Written by our team, sent when it is ready rather than when the calendar says so.
Inside an Issue
What’s usually inside
A typical issue carries these four. Choose one to read what it contains.
Section I
A question, answered
Every issue opens with a real question sent in by a reader — the kind that comes up in a dorm room, a break room, or across the dinner table. We answer it in about four hundred words, showing the reasoning rather than asserting the conclusion, and we say plainly where the argument is strong and where it still has work to do.
“My roommate says the resurrection is just a story the disciples told themselves. How would I even begin to answer that?”
A question of the kind we take upSection II
An article from one of us
Written in house — by a speaker, a writer, or a board member working through something they keep being asked about. It runs in the letter itself, at full length, so there is nothing to click through to. When a piece is still a work in progress, we say so and tell you what we are still weighing.
“Three people asked me this in one week, so I sat down and wrote the answer out properly.”
How most of these pieces beginSection III
The newest conversation
The latest episode of Faith Informed, plus any new video from our speakers — with timestamps for the parts worth skipping to when the week is short. Long conversations, unhurried, with people who disagree well.
“If you have twelve minutes rather than an hour, start at 34:10 — that is where the real disagreement begins.”
From a listening noteSection IV
Speaking dates and events
Campuses, churches, and conferences on the calendar in the coming weeks — plus early word when registration opens for the Engage Conference. If we are going to be near you, you will hear it here first.
“Registration opens to newsletter readers a week before it opens to everyone else.”
How the calendar section worksNot every issue carries all four. Some arrive with three, and once in a while a single piece takes over the whole letter. What stays constant is that we only send when there is something worth reading.
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“Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you.” 1 Peter 3:15 · BSB
Questions We Take Up
The questions people actually ask.
Not strawmen. These are the objections that come up in real conversations, and each one gets a full issue’s attention when its turn comes.
Faith & reason
Isn’t faith belief without evidence?
What faith meant to the people who first used the word, and what it actually asks of the mind.
Suffering
Why would a good God allow this?
The oldest objection, taken at full strength rather than defused with a slogan.
Science
Hasn’t science made God unnecessary?
Where the sciences genuinely speak, where they do not, and why the difference matters.
World religions
Aren’t all religions saying the same thing?
What the traditions really share, and where they make claims that cannot all be true.
Go Further