We all long for a life of meaning and purpose. What if that meaning is not something we have to create for ourselves, but something we discover in knowing our Creator? Contents: Where Does Meaning Come From? Meaning We Create Does Meaning Require an Ultimate...
apologetics
Faith & Reason
If you are asking whether belief in God is reasonable—not merely comforting—this is a place to examine the question without pretending the answer is simple. Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Jump to: Why ask “Why believe in God?” at all? Belief in God does not have to...
What happens when suffering shapes your picture of God? For Paul Snyder, the God he rejected as a young boy seemed harsh, distant, and impossible to please. Growing up amid fear, family brokenness, rejection, and disappointment, he concluded that if God existed at...
What happens when your search for truth leads beyond philosophy and into the unexpected? Mark Schneider is a former skeptic whose life was marked by profound questions about meaning, purpose, and reality itself. Though raised in a nominal Catholic home, faith became...
What happens when anger, disappointment, and painful family experiences shape your understanding of God? For Rich Robison, faith wasn't something he was searching for. Raised in a fractured home and moving 26 times before graduating high school, Rich eventually...
Testimonies
What moves a thoughtful skeptic from disbelief to belief? These stories rarely sound like shortcuts. They sound like honest questions, careful listening, and a willingness to follow truth even when it leads somewhere unexpected. Atheist to Christian testimonies are...
What if the biggest barrier between you and God are the quiet lies you’ve believed about Him your entire life? Jeremy Gronau carried those lies for years, formed through trauma, loss, and a lifetime of trying to prove his worth. After growing up without a clear...
What happens when atheism is taken seriously all the way to its logical conclusions? For Luke Thornton, raised in a deeply secular culture in the UK, honesty about those implications led not to certainty, but to discomfort… and eventually, to an argument he couldn’t...
What happens when a brilliant researcher, once convinced God was nothing more than a cultural artifact, decides to take a second look? In this episode of eX-skeptic, Dr. Lee Holcombe shares his remarkable journey from faith in childhood, through skepticism and...
Over more than 130 episodes, we’ve listened to former atheists and skeptics share how they came to believe in Jesus Christ. This week marks a milestone: five years since eX-skeptic first launched (originally as Side B Stories). Scientists, philosophers, artists, and...