Ravi Tackles Atheism

It’s no secret that I love Ravi Zacharias. Goodness, I think everyone should love Ravi Zacharias. He’s one of the most articulate (and brilliant) speakers I’ve ever heard, he is one of the reasons I still call myself a Christian. He spoke at Taylor University during a time when I was really trying to sort out what I really believed. Could a person be intelligent and still be a Christian? Ravi made me believe it was possible, and I am even more convinced of this today than I was on that chapel morning several years ago.

I download Ravi on my iPod every week (I currently have over 200 podcasts just waiting to be listened to…), and I find Zacharias most compelling as a speaker. But I still like his writings, and I read them with eagerness. His book “The Real Face of Atheism” is a nice introduction into a Christian approach towards atheism. As always, I appreciate how Zacharias resists being overly heady. While some may disagree with me on this one, Zacharias loads his talks and his books with multiple artistic and aesthetically-focused examples and illustrations. Ravi is often quoting poetry and seems as familiar with Wadsworth and Dostoevsky as he is with Chesterton and Lewis. Indeed, “we are neither just brains floating around nor just hearts bounding about” (p. 15). Amen to that.