Here’s a church ad you won’t see in Christianity Today’s Marketplace section: “Position Vacant: Intelligent Atheist to disprove Christianity.” But the evangelical Anglican parish of St. Barnabas in Sydney, which posted the ad on its church sign, is getting both publicity and an opponent for its August 27 debate with Atlanta-based apologist William Lane Craig. “We don’t want a Tyson vs. Mundine fight,” pastor Ian Powell told The Sydney Morning Herald. “If it’s a choice between your standard village atheist and a rigorous agnostic, we’ll take the agnostic. We don’t want to end up with a patsy.”
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Please God, deliver us a clever atheist—Sydney Morning Herald (June 17, 2002)
Transcripts of several of Dr. William Lane Craig’s debates on university campuses with leading non-Christian scholars are available online.
