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Legatus Christi Recipient: Christopher McCready
Originally published by Ratio Christi U.S. on June 30, 2020. Republished with permission and with minor edits. Ratio Christi at Crandall University (RC at CU) is pleased to award RC’s Legatus Christi certificate [...]
Grounding Your Kids in the Truth
It’s no secret that young people are leaving the church in droves and that the main reasons they give for why they’ve come to reject Christianity are intellectual barriers to faith. It’s also no [...]
Dealing with Doubters
Over the more than six years of leading the Ratio Christi ministry at our local university campus, I've had a number of students approach me with their doubts about the Christian faith. Some of [...]
More Christian Objections to Apologetics
From woke preacher kids on social media to disillusioned ministry leaders, I seem to find myself with no shortage of people in my life openly critical (or, at the very least, skeptical) of my [...]
Some Christian Objections to Apologetics
I’ve been doing this ministry for a while now and I confess that I’ve lost count of how many times Christians have told me that ministries like Ratio Christi are misguided at best or [...]
Apologetics in the Early Church: Three Key Insights
It's an unfortunate reality that most Christians are unacquainted with the richness of church history. While some of the more sensational events like the crusades receive a lot of attention, a good deal of [...]
4 Reasons Why Pastors Need to Be Trained in Apologetics
The pastor’s basic role is one of shepherding or overseeing a local congregation of believers. It’s a kind of miniature version of how Christ is the shepherd or overseer of all believers (1 Pet. [...]
What You Say… and How You Say It
Early on in my ministry with Ratio Christi, I was invited to share about our work with a regional association of pastors from various denominations. I received a warm welcome for the most part… [...]