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Amen to Ken Samples:

I think one of the greatest apologetic challenges facing Christianity today is the anti-intellectualism present in many evangelical churches. …If our churches are going to be effective in the apologetic and evangelistic enterprise as God commands, then believers must regain the “life of the mind.” Many nonbelievers today view Christians as “feelers,” not “thinkers.” Our churches can reverse this unhealthy trend by embracing reason and rationality as the good gift of an infinitely wise God and by practicing the important intellectual virtues mandated in Scripture—such as discernment, reflection, testing, and intellectual renewal.

There are many believers who, even if they are not themselves irrational, preserve an unwarranted respect for irrationality, as if incoherence were a hallmark of “deep” truths.

— J. Mark Bertrand, A Reasonable Faith