Author Archive for: DrOakley

For those of you who have heard me speak on the Da Vinci Code and Dan Brown’s inability to figure out which centuries are which, this comic is perfect.

I cannot help but noting the irony: on August 26th during the evening session of our national conference I played clips from my 1989 encounter with Robert Funk, the co-founder, along with John Dominic Crossan, of the Jesus Seminar, illustrating the bias very plainly found in Funk’s position (and in his concluding the interview by telling us all to “go

Before we move on to all the issues facing us in the future, allow me to once again express my sincere thanks to two men without whom the recent conference and debate simply could not have taken place. You will soon begin to see video clips, and soon be able to listen to, and watch, the debates, and I believe

Just wanted to pop up a few more pictures while I have wi-fi here in Anchorage before we try to catch our flight home late this evening. First is a little better picture of a pre-debate conversation between myself and John Dominic Crossan from last Saturday evening. Once again, let me reiterate how amiable and kind Dr. Crossan was during

Well, I must admit, the Sun Princess is quite the ship. I just discovered that aside from the Internet Cafe (which I had become accustomed to on past cruises), this ship has a Wi-Fi hot spot that, though it costs the same as the Internet Cafe, allows me to use my laptop so as to get my regular mail, not

Greetings from Ketchikan, Alaska! I was informed that there is an Internet Cafe with reasonable prices in port, so I quickly put something together to let you all know how things are going up here in the Inner Passage of Alaska.     Yesterday was the second of the two debates in this series, this one a four-man discussion of the

Well, we are starting to get re-packed as we head out early in the morning for the drive to Vancouver, from whence we will head to sea Monday evening for the apologetics cruise to Alaska. Keep especially Tuesday at “high noon” in prayer, as that will be the four-man debate on the Resurrection. Pray as well for my son Joshua,

Well, the 2005 A&O Conference started off on the right foot this evening. What a wonderful time we had! The Emmanuel Reformed Baptist Church was completely filled. Honestly, we couldn’t have seated another five folks if we tried. Jim Renihan began with a tremendous and passionate presentation of the inspiration and authority of the Word of God. It was so