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Daniel McCoy
Daniel is happily married to Susanna, and they have 3 daughters and 2 sons. He has his bachelor’s in theology (Ozark Christian College), his master of arts in apologetics (Veritas International University), and his PhD in theology (North-West University, South Africa). His master’s thesis was on apologetics to atheists, and his doctoral dissertation was on apologetics to Buddhists. In 2014, he co-authored The Atheist’s Fatal Flaw with Norman Geisler. Daniel works as editorial director for the Renew Network. His passion is to help people understand that they can totally trust Jesus. He plays guitar and piano and occasionally enjoys writing songs.
daniel@renew.org
On Gender and the Bible: What John Mark Hicks and Scot McKnight Get Right and Wrong (Part 1)
Who doesn’t love a good story? John Mark Hicks’s new book, Women Serving God: My Journey in Understanding Their Story in the Bible, is full of them. We find the story of Hicks’s journey from rigid patriarchy to egalitarianism, the stories of church history and its various positions on the subject of women in ministry,...
Intersectionality, Christianity, & Why Reconciliation > Reversal
In the land of India lived a woman named Kisa. She had a son, an only son, who unexpectedly died. Kisa could not accept that he was gone. So she scooped him up in her arms and went from neighbor to neighbor asking for medicine. Everyone she talked to knew the boy was dead. Yet...
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Fathers Affect How We See God: Stories from Famous Atheists
Have you ever received a gift at Christmas which was so strange you didn’t really know what to say? The famous neurologist Sigmund Freud gave the world a few things like that. For example, it was Freud who gave us the idea that male children have a deep desire to kill their fathers and marry...
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Corrupted or Co-opted: 2 Non-Options as Christians Fight Racism
Bowling looks easier than it is. You have a fairly wide path for knocking down the pins. All you have to do is avoid the gutters, and you’ll accomplish something. Yet, even though the gutters are narrow and the lane is wide, somehow my bowling ball typically ends up in one gutter or the other....
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Confronting Racism in the Church: Part 2 of a Conversation with Anthony Walker
For Part 1, click here. Q: Could you share a story of when you were blindsided by the realization that there are people looking down on you because of the color of your skin? A story that could help me better understand what it can be like? When I was a sophomore in high school...
Racism Cuts Deep: Part 1 of a Conversation with Anthony Walker
*Editors’ Note: With some of the horrific recent stories of infuriating injustice done toward African Americans (e.g., Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd), I wanted to reach out to my friend Anthony Walker, an African American minister at a church in Murfreesboro, TN. We should all be feeling grief over these losses, and we need to hear...
Doubting the Doubter: On the Deconversion of Hawk Nelson’s Jon Steingard
Jon Steingard, Christian band Hawk Nelson’s frontman, recently went public with his deconversion testimony. And it’s got me doubting, too. But I’m doubting something other than my faith. First of all, here is something about Jon’s story that I don’t doubt: the agony of the process of deconversion. I have a friend who left his...
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It’s Unchristian to Hate America
Polarization is nothing new for the United States. Remember the Federalists VS the anti-Federalists? The Whigs VS Democrats? Even today’s divide between Democrats and Republicans goes all the way back to 1854. In fact, today’s divide is relatively calm compared to 1854, the year when anti-slavery northerners founded the Republican Party 7 years before the...
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Q: Fearless or Fearful? Jesus’ Answer Is Confusing.
I have found myself confused by Jesus’ teaching on fear. There’s an excerpt from one of His sermons in which He basically says this: “Don’t be afraid. Be afraid. Don’t be afraid.” It’s as if this part of the sermon were a movie directed scene-by-scene first by Mr. Rogers, then by Alfred Hitchcock, then by...
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5 Bible Moms to Make You Feel Amazing & Terrible
You will find this article relevant to you if . . . A. You are a mother B. You will someday be a mother C. You have/had a mother D. You need to write a sermon for Mother’s Day As for D, can we just admit that there’s usually a huge difference between Mother’s Day...
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Do Prayers Work in a Pandemic?
According to cage-rattling atheist Dan Barker, the answer is no. In an article called “The Coronavirus Proves that the Christian God Does Not Exist,” Barker writes, “It’s simple logic. The Christian god promises to answer prayer. Prayers to this god are not answered. Therefore, the Christian god does not exist.” You might have rolled your...
Biden, Trump, and Other Urgent Things That Come Up
“But I thought you said you would [fill-in-the-blank].” “Something important came up. It was [fill-in-the-blank]. Sorry.” Throughout life, you’ll fill in these blanks. And when you look at what you’ve filled in, you come to understand what people really value. *** Psalm 14 offends me. Well, first it offends atheists. But just in the middle...
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4 Takeaways from LGBTQ Documentary
Do you know Guy? If you know him, you wonder how someone with that big a smile could have gone through that much hurt. As you watch the documentary Finding Guy, you’ll see a smile that starts out hiding tragedy and shame. But now that big smile shows hard-won joy. How so? It’s because after...
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This Easter Reminds Me of Another Easter
We’ve never experienced an Easter like this one, have we? Actually, the church has. Think back to the very first Easter. The disciples did not start the day belting out Sandi Patty’s “Was It a Morning like This?” Rather, they started out the day in the same mood they were in the previous day, Saturday....
