Dr. William Lane Craig
William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. He completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Birmingham, England, before earning a Doctorate in Theology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, where he was for two years a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. Prior to his appointment at Talbot he spent seven years at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Katholike Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He has authored over twenty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology; and God, Time, and Eternity, as well as nearly a hundred articles in professional journals of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, and British Journal for Philosophy of Science. He currently lives in Atlanta with his wife Jan; they have two children, Charity and John. You can find out more at his website: www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig.
I wasn’t raised in a Christian home or even a church-going family. But when I became a teenager, I began to ask the big questions in life and I started attending a church in our community by myself. But instead of answers to my questions, all I found was a social country club where the dues were a dollar a week in the offering plate. I was really turned off by the hypocrisy I saw there. I began to hate the people in the church, especially the other students who claimed to be Christians on Sunday, but lived for their real god the rest of the week, which was popularity.This attitude began to spread towards other people as well – I thought everybody was a fake and a phony.
I was on my way to becoming a very alienated young man.
One day I walked into my high school German class, and sat down behind a girl who was one of these types who was always so happy it just makes you sick! I asked her why she was always so happy, and she told me it was because she knew Jesus Christ as her personal Saviour. I said, ‘I go to church’, but she said, ‘that’s not enough. You need to have him living in your heart’. I said, ‘what would he want to do a thing like that for?’ She said, ‘because he loves you, Bill.’
That just hit me like a ton of bricks. Here I was, so filled with anger and hate towards other people, and there is somebody who really loved me – and who was it, but the God of the Universe.
That lit a fire in me. I began to read the New Testament, I met other Christians in the school, I went to Christian meetings and I read books. At the end of six months of the most agonising soul-searching I had ever gone through, I just came to the end of my rope and cried out to God. I gave my life to him, and experienced a wonderful infusion of joy and an overflowing sense of his presence.
I knew, having thought about this during those six months, that if I ever became a Christian, I could do nothing less than give my entire life to spreading this message among mankind. So my call to vocational Christian ministry was simultaneous with my conversion.
Articles, debates, lectures, audio, etc. not on Dr. Craig's website:
Dr. Craig's interview with Boundless.
Dr. Craig's interview on the resurrection of Jesus at UCSB.
Dr. Craig's interview for Anglican Media
Dr. Craig debates available on his website.
Dr. Craig's debate with Dr. Hector Avalos on the resurrection
Dr. Craig's debate with Mr. Ron Barrier
Dr. Craig's debate with Dr. Brian Edwards on the resurrection
Dr. Craig's debate with Mr. Phillip Adams (and here)
Dr. Craig's debate with Dr. Henry Morgentaller.
Dr. Craig's real audio on the "Absurdity of Life without God".
Dr. Craig's "Advice to Christian Apologists" transcript
Dr. Craig's "Cosmos and Creator"
Dr. Craig's "The Evidence for Christianity" transcript You can hear Dr. Craig's impersonation of Bertrand Russell!
Dr. Craig's "In Intellectual Neutral"
Bob and Gretchen Passantino's review of Dr. Craig's debate with Mr. Frank Zindler
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