Clear Thinking
By: Reasons to Believe
Language: en
Categories: Religion, Spirituality, Christianity, Society, Culture, Philosophy, Education
The Clear Thinking podcast equips Christians with the tools to sharpen their logic and critical thinking skills, strengthen their worldview analysis, and cultivate a life dedicated to reading, learning, and intellectual growth—all for the glory of God. Each episode offers practical insights to help believers navigate complex topics and engage the world with a well-informed, Christ-centered perspective.
Episodes
Rerun: Science-Related Arguments for God's Existence Part 2
Dec 15, 2025This is a special rerun episode of Science-Related Arguments for God's Existence Part 2.
As we look back, we’re humbled by the conversations that stretched us, encouraged us, and drew us closer to God’s truth. In these final weeks, we’ll be revisiting some of our favorite episodes, moments that shaped us and, we hope, blessed you too.
We’re honored to share these meaningful conversations once more and we pray they bring encouragement, insight and joy to you just as they did when they first aired.
Duration: 00:52:13Clear Thinking | Eat and Drink to the Glory of God
Dec 10, 2025Nutritionist Jim Painter on honoring God with our bodies | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:49:33Clear Thinking | What Happens After Death?
Nov 17, 2025How the Christian view of life after death provides hope | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:50:56Clear Thinking | Arianism: Christendom's Greatest Heresy, Part 4
Nov 10, 2025How the Nicene Creed informs doctrine and life today | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:48:44Clear Thinking | Arianism: Christendom's Greatest Heresy, Part 3
Nov 03, 2025What purpose have church councils served in history? | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:46:46Clear Thinking | Faith, Doubt, and the Resurrection
Oct 13, 2025Dr. Ben Shaw makes a case for the resurrection | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:53:37Clear Thinking | Arianism: Christendom's Greatest Heresy, Part 2
Oct 06, 2025Athanasius’s role in combating church history’s greatest heresy | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:51:43Clear Thinking | Arianism: Christendom's Greatest Heresy, Part 1
Sep 22, 2025What is Arianism and why is it a serious error? | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:51:31Clear Thinking | Worldview and the Holocaust
Sep 15, 2025Philosopher George Haraksin explains why Holocaust education is a moral imperative | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:59:28Clear Thinking | Worldview and World War, Part 2
Sep 08, 2025World War II reminds us why ideas matter | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:57:08Clear Thinking | Worldview and World War, Part 1
Sep 01, 2025How worldviews clashed in the Second World War | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:50:44Clear Thinking | Daniel in Babylon
Aug 25, 2025Author Mark Clark explains how the prophet Daniel navigated politics while in exile | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:53:41Clear Thinking | Clear Creation: An Ophthalmologist's Insight to Worldview
Aug 18, 2025Dr. Andrew Moyes discusses his experiences and apologetics insights as a surgeon | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:42:08Clear Thinking | The Rise of the Nonexperts, Part 2
Aug 04, 2025How to discern truth in a world of non experts | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:49:16Clear Thinking | Fr. Robert Spitzer on Christendom's Greatest Thinkers
Jul 28, 2025How Christianity's great historical figures inform us today | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:58:07Clear Thinking | What Cultural Christianity Is and Why It Fails, Part 3
Jul 21, 2025Ken explains how Christianity been a force for good | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:42:24Clear Thinking | What Cultural Christianity Is and Why It Fails, Part 2
Jul 14, 2025Contemporary cultural Christians and their historical forerunners | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:51:15Clear Thinking | What Cultural Christianity Is and Why It Fails, Part 1
Jul 07, 2025Why is cultural Christianity becoming popular? | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:49:13Clear Thinking | Have We Lost Our Mind?
Jun 30, 2025Philosopher of mind Stan Wallace discusses how humans are souls and bodies | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:55:31Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #23: Precarious Logical Fallacies, Part 4
Jun 23, 2025Ken discusses three more common fallacies | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:44:12Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #22: Precarious Logical Fallacies, Part 3
Jun 16, 2025Recognize and avoid these logical fallacies | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:50:17Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #21: Precarious Logical Fallacies, Part 2
Jun 09, 2025Ken addresses more precarious logical fallacies that are easy to commit | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:53:00Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #20: Precarious Logical Fallacies, Part 1
Jun 02, 2025How to identify and avoid common logical fallacies | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:50:12Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #19: Conspiracy Theories, Part 4
May 26, 2025Ken applies critical thinking in JFK assassination conspiracy analysis | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:49:37Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #18: Conspiracy Theories, Part 3
May 19, 20257 critical questions to ask when considering conspiracies | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:54:07Clear Thinking | God Leads Personally: Interview with Robert DiSilvestro
May 12, 2025Nutritionist and apologist Bob DiSilvestro on God's leading and answers to hiddenness | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:54:38Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #18: Conspiracy Theories, Part 2
May 05, 2025Thinking through conspiracy theories by asking critical questions | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:41:47Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #17: Conspiracy Theories, Part 1
Apr 28, 2025How to apply logic to conspiracy theories | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:40:48Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #16: Education vs. Propaganda, Part 2
Apr 21, 2025Ken discusses features of free speech and true education | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:47:05Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #15: Education vs. Propaganda, Part 1
Apr 14, 2025How to distinguish education, indoctrination, and propaganda | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:55:33Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #14: Rhetorical Triangle of Persuasion
Apr 07, 2025How ethos, pathos, and logos play pivotal roles in persuasion | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:39:58Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #13: Positive Steps to Reinforce Clear Thinking
Mar 31, 2025Ken discusses the five C's of logical persuasion | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:45:50Clear Thinking | The Perils of Pride and the Power of Humility
Mar 24, 2025Neuroscientist Steven Willing explains how the perils of pride negatively affect reason | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:45:35Clear Thinking | Archaeology and the Bible: Interview with Kristen Davis
Mar 10, 2025Visiting scholar Kristen Davis discusses archaeological evidence for biblical events | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:39:00Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #11: 3 Types of Logical Reasoning, Part 1
Mar 03, 2025What are deductive arguments and how do you use them? | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:53:59Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #11: 3 Types of Logical Reasoning, Part 1
Feb 24, 2025What are deductive arguments and how do you use them? | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:51:23Clear Thinking | Walking in Unity: Biblical Answers to Questions on Race and Racism
Feb 17, 2025An interview with authors Krista Bontrager and Monique Duson | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 01:02:14Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #10: Laws of Logic Challenged, Part 3
Feb 10, 2025Ken addresses the Eastern and secular brute fact challenges to laws of logic | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:42:56Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #9: Laws of Logic Challenged, Part 2
Feb 03, 2025Can two contradictory ideas lead to truth?
Duration: 00:50:14Help Me to Think Clearly About Climate Change
Jan 27, 2025Researcher Kevin Birdwell discusses Earth's long-term climate and near-term solutions to warming.
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Duration: 00:54:20Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #9: Laws of Logic Challenged, Part 1
Jan 20, 2025Ken addresses the social construct challenge to the laws of logic | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:51:23Clear Thinking | Medicine and Faith: Interview with Dr. Joseph Bergeron
Jan 13, 2025Medical doctor Joseph Bergeron discusses his encounter with Mother Teresa and the cause of Jesus's death | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:47:24Clear Thinking #8: Arguments, Part 2
Jan 06, 2025How to keep your logical arguments on TRACKS.
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Duration: 00:46:42Clear Thinking #7: Arguments, Part 1
Dec 30, 2024What goes into a logical argument?
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Duration: 00:52:03Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #6: Why Study Logic?, Part 2
Dec 23, 2024Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #5: Why Study Logic?, Part 1
Dec 16, 2024Ken discusses five reasons to study logic | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:58:10Clear Thinking #4: Christianity Connects Faith and Reason
Dec 09, 2024How faith and reason go together.
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Duration: 00:46:25Clear Thinking #3: Jesus the Sage Logician
Dec 02, 2024Ken shows how Jesus exemplified logical thinking in his teaching.
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Duration: 00:49:16God and Evil: Interview with Kyle Keltz
Nov 25, 2024Philosopher Kyle Keltz offers insights on why evil exists. Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 01:00:15Clear Thinking #2: Why Christians Need to Think Clearly
Nov 18, 2024Ken discusses why Christians need to think clearly.
Duration: 00:40:35Clear Thinking | Clear Thinking #1 Why Another Christian Book on Logic?
Nov 15, 2024Introducing Ken and Mark's new book on logic | Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at: support.reasons.org?source=OLPDCSTAP
Duration: 00:44:29The Classical Anglican Way
Nov 04, 2024How the creeds serve as helpful guidelines for interpreting Scripture
Duration: 00:52:10Christendom's Central Creed: Nicene Creed, Part 2
Oct 28, 2024How the Nicene Creed summarizes Christian doctrine
Duration: 00:56:28God, Physics, and Faith: Interview with Brian Keating
Oct 21, 2024Astrophysicist Brian Keating reflects on the universe and life.
Duration: 01:16:06Christendom's Central Creed: Nicene Creed, Part 1
Oct 14, 2024How did the Nicene Creed come about? ----more---- Help us to reveal God in science by supporting Reasons to Believe at reasons.org/ctgive
Duration: 00:54:40Human Flourishing and 5 Facets of Identity
Oct 07, 2024Scholar Joe Miller explains an intrinsic view of Christian identity
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Duration: 00:58:44Deadly Vices vs. Godly Virtues, Part 3
Sep 30, 2024Part 3 going through vices and virtues. This episode focuses on how salvation by grace helps develop Godly virtue.
Duration: 00:47:25Deadly Vices vs. Godly Virtues, Part 2
Sep 23, 2024This is Part 2 of a three part series where Joe and Ken Compare Godly virtues to deadly vices.
Duration: 01:01:44Casey Luskin on Evolution and Intelligent Design
Sep 09, 2024Casey Luskin joins us to answer the question, "What's the evidence for evolution and intelligent design?"
Duration: 00:52:544 Successive Cosmic Events in a Christian Worldview, Part 3
Sep 02, 2024This episode is part 3 of a three part series where we discuss how Augustine helped shaped the Christian worldview
Duration: 00:48:304 Successive Cosmic Events in a Christian Worldview, Part 2
Aug 26, 2024This is part 2 of a three part series. Ken explains how the three branches of Christianity affirm the four events in the Christian worldview.
Duration: 00:52:214 Successive Cosmic Events in a Christian Worldview, Part 1
Aug 19, 2024This is part 1 of a three part series. Ken kicks the series off by discussing the four stages of a Christian worldview.
Duration: 00:43:35Gnostic Gospels vs. Canonical Gospels
Aug 12, 2024Theologian Stephen Boyce discusses Gnosticism in church history
Duration: 00:52:08Thinking Biblically about Transgenderism
Aug 05, 2024Theologian Ken Keathley explains seven tenets of a biblical anthropology
Duration: 00:50:34Apologetics 101: Defending the Faith, Part 3
Jul 29, 2024This episode we discuss the six elements in apologetics persuasion
Duration: 00:45:30Apologetics 101: Defending the Faith, Part 2
Jul 22, 2024In this episode we discuss how to use the cumulative case approach to apologetics
Duration: 00:54:58Apologetics 101: Defending the Faith, Part 1
Jul 15, 2024Ken explains the biblical basis for defending the faith
Duration: 00:54:35Bookishness in 25 Points, Part 2
Jul 08, 2024More on the benefits of reading books
Duration: 00:54:38Bookishness in 25 Points, Part 1
Jul 01, 2024Ken discusses ways to help cultivate a love of reading books
Duration: 00:52:37A Culture of Men without Chests, Part 2
Jun 24, 2024Christianity embodies the virtues needed to societal avoid collapse into radical subjectivity
Duration: 00:57:47A Culture of Men without Chests, Part 1
Jun 17, 2024C. S. Lewis warned of the perils of society without objective values
Duration: 00:47:18Pride: the Anti-God State of Mind, Part 2
Jun 10, 2024Christ's humility as the antidote to pride
Duration: 00:06:46Pride: the Anti-God State of Mind, Part 1
Jun 03, 2024Pride and the seven deadly sins
Duration: 00:57:05Reaction to Pew Report on Atheists, Part 2
May 27, 2024Four more facts about atheists
Duration: 00:35:05Reaction to Pew Report on Atheists, Part 1
May 20, 2024Ken discusses four facts about atheists
Duration: 00:42:474 Doctors of the Eastern (Greek) Church
May 13, 2024More theological wisdom from the doctors of the church
Duration: 00:49:024 Doctors of the Western (Latin) Church
May 06, 2024Learning from the doctors of the church
Duration: 00:59:268 Aspirational Qualities of the Christian Mind, Part 2
Apr 29, 2024Ken discusses four more qualities of the Christian mind
Duration: 00:40:418 Aspirational Qualities of the Christian Mind, Part 1
Apr 22, 2024The Christian mind is marked by humility, wisdom, discernment, and avoidance of laziness
Duration: 00:55:09Chemistry & Origin of Life: Interview with Steve Baertschi
Apr 15, 2024Visiting Scholar Steve Baertschi discusses chemical design and origin of life
Duration: 00:38:33Take Up and Read: Ken's Apologetics Books, Part 4
Apr 08, 2024Ken discusses how Christianity passes the rationality and relevance tests.
Duration: 00:49:10Take Up and Read: Ken's Apologetics Books, Part 3
Apr 01, 2024How Jesus compares to other religious figures and more apologetics resources
Duration: 00:55:00Sin as a Disorder of the Good
Mar 25, 2024How the Christian worldview accounts for humans' disordered loves.
Duration: 00:41:45Torah & Science: Rabbis Feder and Zimmer, Part 2
Mar 18, 2024Rabbis Feder and Zimmer on the life of the mind, AI, science's limits.
Duration: 01:03:34Torah & Science: Interview with Rabbis Feder and Zimmer
Mar 11, 2024Rabbis Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer discuss how science points to God.
Duration: 00:53:19Take Up and Read: Ken's Apologetics Books, Part 2
Feb 26, 2024More Samples books: Ken discusses several more of his apologetics resources.
Duration: 00:43:26Take Up and Read: Ken's Apologetics Books, Part 1
Feb 19, 2024Ken discusses the background and influence of his early apologetics books.
Duration: 00:43:25A Theological Exploration of the Human Soul, Part 3
Feb 12, 2024A biblical case for the union of the material and immaterial (dichotomy).
Duration: 00:42:34A Theological Exploration of the Human Soul, Part 2
Feb 05, 2024Biblical support for mind-body dualism.
Duration: 00:42:38A Theological Exploration of the Human Soul, Part 1
Jan 29, 2024How does historic Christianity define the human soul?
Duration: 00:41:38What You Need to Know about NDEs
Jan 22, 2024Michael Sabom analyzes near-death experiences from a Christian worldview.
Duration: 00:55:46Tassos Lycurgo on Responding to the Culture War
Jan 15, 2024The importance of courage in the church's battle against false ideas.
Duration: 00:51:043 Science-Related Arguments for God's Existence, Part 2
Jan 08, 2024Ken discusses fine-tuning and mathematical arguments for God's existence.
Duration: 00:45:193 Science-Related Arguments for God's Existence, Part 1
Jan 01, 2024How to use cosmological arguments in everyday apologetics.
Duration: 00:51:37A Jewish-Christian Incarnational "Christmas" Hymn, Part 2
Dec 25, 2023Evidence of high Christology in the primitive church answers claim that Christ's deity evolved
Duration: 00:42:10A Jewish-Christian Incarnational "Christmas" Hymn, Part 1
Dec 18, 2023Does the New Testament contain parts of early Christmas hymns?
Duration: 00:48:13Atheist Identifies Christianity's Strongest Argument, Part 4
Dec 11, 2023Ken responds to objections to original sin
Duration: 00:55:00Atheist Identifies Christianity's Strongest Argument, Part 3
Dec 04, 2023What's the biblical basis for original sin?
Duration: 00:55:00Atheist Identifies Christianity's Strongest Argument, Part 2
Nov 27, 2023How original sin best explains the human condition
Duration: 00:51:07Atheist Identifies Christianity's Strongest Argument, Part 1
Nov 20, 2023A prominent atheist philosopher says original sin is the faith's strongest argument.
Duration: 00:58:47