Faith That Faces the Evidence

Jump to a teacher

• John Lennox
• Wesley Huff
• Jason Lisle
• N. T. Wright
• Gary Habermas
• J. Warner Wallace
• Lee Strobel
• Michael Heiser
• Chuck Missler
• C. S. Lewis
• G. K. Chesterton

The Eleven

• 01

  John Lennox

  Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford

  Read God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? 2009

  Watch Has Science Buried God?

  A mathematician who has debated Dawkins and Hitchens, and does it without raising his voice. If you have ever been told that science and faith are at war, start here — Lennox shows the war is between two philosophies, not between the lab and the Bible.

• 02

  Wesley Huff

  Biblical manuscript scholar; Apologetics Canada

  Read His articles and manuscript explainers at wesleyhuff.com no full-length book yet

  Watch Wesley Huff on YouTube — manuscripts, canon, and the reliability of the text

  The man to send someone who says “the Bible has been changed a thousand times.” He works in the actual manuscripts and explains textual criticism in plain English. He has no full-length book out yet — his talks and written work are the way in.

• 03

  Jason Lisle

  Astrophysicist, Ph.D.; founder of the Biblical Science Institute

  Read The Ultimate Proof of Creation 2009

  Watch The Ultimate Proof of Creation

  A solar astrophysicist who argues origins from logic rather than from volume. Whatever you conclude about the age of the earth, Lisle will teach you to spot a circular argument — including in your own thinking.

• 04

  N. T. Wright

  New Testament historian; former Bishop of Durham

  Read Surprised by Hope 2008

  Watch N.T. Wright Online — lectures on Jesus, Paul, and the resurrection

  Wright puts the New Testament back into the first century, where it was written. Read him and the resurrection stops being a private religious feeling and becomes a public claim about history — and about a renewed creation, not an escape from it.

• 05

  Gary Habermas

  Distinguished Research Professor; the leading scholar on resurrection studies

  Read The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus 2004, with Michael Licona

  Watch A Historian Explains the Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus

  Habermas spent four decades cataloguing thousands of scholarly works on the resurrection to find out what even skeptical historians concede. His “minimal facts” method builds the case from the ground the other side already grants. Almost every popular book on the resurrection leans on his research.

• 06

  J. Warner Wallace

  Cold-case homicide detective; Colson Center Senior Fellow

  Read Cold-Case Christianity 2013

  Watch Cold-Case Christianity — J. Warner & Jimmy Wallace

  A detective who convicted killers on decades-old evidence turned the same tools on the Gospels — eyewitness reliability, chain of custody, why real testimony has rough edges. He came to faith as an adult atheist working the case.

• 07

  Lee Strobel

  Former legal editor, Chicago Tribune; atheist turned Christian

  Read The Case for Christ 1998

  Watch The Case for Christ video study

  An investigative journalist set out to disprove his wife’s new faith and interviewed the experts one by one. The best first book to hand someone who is genuinely asking — it reads like reporting, because it is.

• 08

  Michael Heiser

  Semitic languages and Hebrew Bible scholar (1963–2023)

  Read The Unseen Realm 2015

  Watch Demons: Why the Bible’s Darkest Battles Were Never Fully Told

  The scholar behind how this whole series reads Scripture. Psalm 82, the divine council, Deuteronomy 32, the giants — Heiser refused to skip the strange passages and let the ancient writers mean what they said. Start here if you want the unseen realm taken seriously and exegetically.

• 09

  Chuck Missler

  Bible teacher and engineer; founder of Koinonia House (1934–2018)

  Read Learn the Bible in 24 Hours 2002

  Watch Koinonia House — Chuck Missler’s teaching archive

  Missler taught the Bible as one integrated document by one Author, chasing cross-references like an engineer tracing a circuit. Not every conclusion will land with every reader, but nobody makes the sixty-six books feel more like a single book.

• 10

  C. S. Lewis

  Oxford and Cambridge scholar; author (1898–1963)

  Read Mere Christianity 1952

  Watch CSLewisDoodle — the BBC talks behind Mere Christianity, illustrated

  The book that has talked more people out of atheism than any other in the last century, written by a man who had been one. Lewis argues from ordinary things — quarrels, fairness, longing — and the doodled BBC talks make the harder chapters click.

• 11

  G. K. Chesterton

  Journalist, essayist, and critic (1874–1936)

  Read Orthodoxy 1908

  Watch Introduction to G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy — Dale Ahlquist

  Chesterton called Orthodoxy the account of how he tried to invent a heresy and found he had reinvented Christianity. He was Lewis’s way in, and he is still the most quotable defender the faith has — funny on the page, serious underneath.

A word on this list

These are not put up as answers, and no endorsement here is total. The men on this list disagree with each other — sharply, in places, on the age of the earth, on eschatology, on how much philosophy belongs in apologetics. They are here because they did honest work and refused to be embarrassed by the evidence. Weigh them. Scripture is the standard, not this page.