{"id":28056,"date":"2011-09-04T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/apologetics_makes_a_comeback_among_youth\/"},"modified":"2011-09-04T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:00:05","slug":"apologetics_makes_a_comeback_among_youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28056","title":{"rendered":"(Christianity Today) Apologetics Makes a Comeback Among Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Challenging the cultural climate is a major component of the new apologetics, said Sean McDowell, head of Worldview Ministries. &#8220;The apologetics resurgence has been sparked ultimately by teens who are asking more questions about why people believe the things they do,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Those who thought that kids in a postmodern world don&#8217;t want an ideology were wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greg Stier, founder of Dare 2 Share Ministries, agrees. &#8220;[Teens] are aware of the latent apologetic conversations in culture\u201d\u201dHarry Potter, for example\u201d\u201dand want to react,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2011\/september\/apologetics-return-youth.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenging the cultural climate is a major component of the new apologetics, said Sean McDowell, head of Worldview Ministries. &#8220;The apologetics resurgence has been sparked ultimately by teens who are asking more questions about why people believe the things they<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28056\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,174,184,117,129,108,34,442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-apologetics","category-parish-ministry","category-philosophy","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-youth-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}