Apologetics, traditionally, has simply meant "to defend the faith."

And while we are well-versed and prepared for that, we also know that Apologetics is far broader.

It is an excuse for people to be integrated with life, to employ their minds as well as their hearts, and to be just as passionate about their thoughts as they are about their feelings. Because in its broadest sense Apologetics is defending the Christian faith, apologetics can be demonstrated by just about anything that is good, true, and beautiful.

We believe encouraging people to be emotionally healthy and honest with their defects of character is a strong apologetic. We believe gardening to the Glory of God is an apologetic. We believe using our imaginations to seek after and illustrate truth is an apologetic (as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and G. K. Chesterton taught us). We believe using solid and reasonable tools (like context, genre, and authorial intention) to interpret the Scripture is an apologetic.

So, you see, apologetics is far and wide. It is thought as well as felt. It is lived as well as spoken. The Christian life, in general, is the apologetic life. It is a life of the soul and the body. We are showing others what God is like which, as image bearers, is one of the reasons why we are here.

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