Gregory Koukl is a radio talk show host, founder and president of Stand to Reason (www.str.org). Greg started out thinking he was too smart to become a Christian and ended up giving his life for the defense of the Christian faith. A central theme of Greg's speaking and writing is that Christianity can compete in the marketplace of ideas when it's properly understood and properly articulated. Greg's teaching has been featured on Focus on the Family radio, he's been interviewed for CBN and the BBC, and did a one - hour national television debate with Deepak Chopra on Lee Strobel's "Faith Under Fire." Greg has been quoted in U.S. News & World Report, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the L.A. Times. An award - winning writer, Greg is author of Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid - Air with Francis J. Beckwith, and Precious Unborn Human Persons. Greg has published more than 145 articles and has spoken on more than 40 university and college campuses both in the U.S. and abroad. Greg received his Masters in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at Talbot School of Theology, graduating with high honors, and his Masters in Christian Apologetics from Simon Greenleaf University. He is an adjunct professor in Christian apologetics at Biola University. He hosts his own radio talk show advocating clear - thinking Christianity and defending the Christian worldview. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:23:33 GMT Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:23:33 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ During next year's presidential election, the one issue that most directly relates to justice is abortion. If you are a Christian, no other question should have more influence in your choice of candidates. Which... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl/2007/11/06/when_compromising_is_not_a_compromise cdd94af8-b865-4c31-9b3f-6ee64bbd4810 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:23:33 GMT The spate of atheists on the bestsellers list dismiss Christianity as irrational. They exude a palpable condescension. But what they ignore or are unaware of is that some of the most significant thinkers in western... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl/2007/10/10/christianity_is_no_"leap_of_faith" 446c0617-a514-4228-a907-a0fc92df4df1 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:00:32 GMT Senators Ted Kenney and Gordon Smith have proposed a hate crime amendment to the defense appropriation bill the Senate is debating this week. It would add special enhancements to crimes for certain classes of victims,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl/2007/07/21/why_hate_shouldnt_be_a_crime cbf08a20-44a4-4feb-9754-b61af15ec0c4 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:00:53 GMT It's not only the left that sounds the alarm when Christians "jeopardize the separation of church and state" by engaging in political action. Some Christians object, too. One evangelical leader offered this stern warn http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl/2007/04/30/political_passivity-vice_or_christian_virtue 59697c26-24b2-41fd-92a9-0874baace320 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:27:39 GMT When we justify the killing of a fully human child because of severe, congenital defect, we are not making a case for abortion; we're promoting something much more chilling. Partial-term Abortion Is Not about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl/2007/04/06/partial-birth_abortion_is_not_about_abortion 36a9c056-7be2-4ba2-9075-1bf945dd8ace Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:05:55 GMT Gen. Peter Pace was vehemently denounced and condemned earlier this week for expressing a personal moral judgment that homosexuality is immoral. The criticisms excoriated Pace for making a value judgment, while implying... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl/2007/03/16/the_myth_of_moral_neutrality 0a6518d1-be5b-491a-b1ea-5de99d4f8b1c Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:00:11 GMT The documentary "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" hadn't even aired yet and many Christians were already in a panic. Just the suggestion that someone found Jesus' bones in a limestone box had believers by the droves shaking... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl/2007/03/04/wailing_at_the_tomb a9688e8b-1f24-4b37-88e5-949f5e8ec8f8 Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:48:04 GMT The latest in the aggressive efforts to redefine marriage is a Washington state initiative that would nullify marriages that don't produce children. "Absurd." That is even how the supporters describe their attempt to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl/2007/02/11/same-sex_marriage_-_challenges__responses 462217d4-8659-4042-b116-3b371d7b691a Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:00:01 GMT The pro-choice enterprise in any of its forms is doomed to fail morally because it ultimately reduces human value to functional terms. For example, Michael Kinsley dismisses embryonic value because of size. They are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl/2007/01/24/the_confusing_moral_logic_of_escr_part_iii 307cce73-3702-4480-9ce9-dc4a06e35d9e Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:06:16 GMT By any objective, scientific standard, the embryo qualifies as a member of the human race. From the moment of conception the embryo is an individual. The zygote is distinct from mother, father, and other living... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl/2007/01/18/the_confusing_moral_logic_of_escr_part_ii 1d02e751-c38b-4183-936c-6841913e0e90 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:40:00 GMT The embryonic stem cell research debate is remarkable because neither side-pro-life nor pro-abortion-seems to fully understand the moral logic of its views. Presumably, people who are pro-life hold their views for a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl/2007/01/10/the_confusing_moral_logic_of_escr c68f2561-b0ff-43bd-8908-1d3728a9443c Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:54:40 GMT Probably no concept has more currency in our politically-correct culture than the notion of tolerance. Unfortunately, one of America's noblest virtues has been so distorted it's become a vice. There's one word that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl/2006/12/14/the_intolerance_of_tolerance b8738232-7f2f-4d69-99a0-dbdb6330418d Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:38:16 GMT It's easy to characterize religion as a blood - thirsty enterprise. History seems to be strewn with the wreckage of witch hunts, crusades, and religious jihad. If God does exist, a caller to my radio show offered, He... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl/2006/11/21/christianitys_real_record e4020e54-a1a3-4858-acc4-5275c08ff53d Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:42:25 GMT I first heard the term "velocitized" in high school driver's ed. When a driver accelerates from, say, 30 to 60 miles per hour and settles in, he gets acclimated to his new speed and loses his sense of velocity. It... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GregoryKoukl/2006/11/13/morally_velocitized 84b2f16b-b0d3-470c-9e9f-35706ff089bd Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:17:54 GMT