(Patheos::Excommunications) – Neil Carter:
The most curious and extroverted of all my girls is the third, who may be only eleven but who thinks about things more deeply than most teenagers I know. Much to my chagrin, she has for the past two years been under the tutelage of a Sunday School teacher who fancies himself a brilliant defender of the faith. He’s a hack apologist who, bless his heart, doesn’t really grasp the arguments he uses in the first place. So you can imagine how difficult it is to have a coherent conversation with him about these things. Frankly, at eleven she is a better apologist than he is. And on this night, she decided to begin a line of questioning I’ve heard a thousand times by now. …
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