My Story, Part IV: Home

I'm doing this series in order for readers to understand where I've come from and why I'm so passionate about Christ. This is the concluding part of a long series about God as He's worked in my life (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). If you're just joining, I'd recommend starting at the beginning. But now, …

My Story, Part III: Feeling

This series is a recounting of God's story throughout my life (Part 1, Part 2). I want to do this because I'd like readers to know the broader context of my writing. I want you to understand why I even care to write about Christianity. I would recommend starting at the beginning, as this post won't …

My Story, Part II: Numb

This is part 2 of sharing God's story in my life. As explained in Part 1, I'm sharing this in order to encourage you and provide you a personal and broader context for my writing. I ended Part 1 with my decision to become a Christian around the middle of high school. But that was just …

My Story, Part I: Beginnings

I mentioned in An Introduction to PP that I wanted to share my testimony, despite the prospect being quite unsettling. Although this is a site that will be largely devoted to philosophical explorations of the Christian truth claims, I wanted to share my story so readers can understand where I've come from and why I'm writing. If …

Why the Church Needs Apologetics

This article is written primarily to the Christians readers. If you happen to not call yourself Christian, I'm glad you're here! Feel free to stay. To be honest, you will probably agree with everything I'll say.  🙂 To Christians, to churches, to the Church: you need apologetics. This is not an option. Through this post I hope …

An Introduction

Welcome! Welcome to Pondering Peniel! This is one blog of many millions of blogs. This could turn out to be a completely inconsequential endeavour. Yet I'm writing this anyways. Why? I hope to join in a surge; a sort of new surge. Really, it's a very old surge. But it seemed to have been forgotten. …