Popular Writing,  Interviews, and Videos

Below are links to more popular/accessible discussions of some of my ideas.  There are links to audio and video recordings as well as some writings. A good place to begin is, ironically, the link at the very bottom of the page.

I also occasionally post short writings on Medium on random topics like politics or AI  -- you can check out my Medium profile here.

And, you can check out my Giant Orange Cat YouTube project here.

Interviews

Equal Time for Freethought, "On Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe", 2005 (audio) - discussion of objective morality with God

Reasonable Doubts, "Divine Deception", November 2013 (audio) - if God allows us to suffer for the greater good, might He also deceive us for the greater good?

Godspeed Institute, August 2014 (audio) - for a change of pace, objective morality without God

Armchair Atheism, "Morality without God?", March 2015 (audio) - you guessed it

Real Atheology, interview right after debate with William Lane Craig, February 2018 (audio) (video of the debate itself available here)

Capturing Christianity interview on objective morality, September 2019 (video) - some reasons to believe that objective morality exists, and addressing some common arguments against objective morality

Capturing Christianity discussion of naturalism and moral knowledge, September 2019 (video) - this discussion focuses on Alvin Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism, which I find fascinating but think is ultimately unsuccessful

Majesty of Reason, "Kalamity at Creation?", February 2021 (video) - a critical of discussion of William Craig's Kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God

The Non-Alchemist, "Atheist Professor Discusses the God Debate", April 2022 (video) - a discussion focused on my book God and the Reach of Reason, which looks at the views of C.S. Lewis, David Hume, and Bertrand Russell in the philosophy of religion

Brute Facts with Eddie Crume, "Ethical Normative Realism" July 2022 (video) - we first mourn the unexpected loss of Eddie's magnificent beard, then we discuss objective morality without God.

The Socratic Sessions, "Godless Normative Realism", November 2024 (video) - a discussion focused on my book Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe.

The Socratic Sessions, "God and Reason: Lewis, Hume, and Russell" March 2025 (video) - a discussion focused on my book God and the Reach of Reason, particularly miracles and the problem of evil.

Uncertainty, "Morality in a Godless Universe" March 2025 (video) - still more Godless morality; this interview focuses on Robust Ethics and my 2018 debate with William Lane Craig

Philosophy for All, "Introduction to Skeptical Theism" May 2025 (video) - what is skeptical theism, you ask? You're in luck! - that's what this interview is all about.

Writing

"I Think, Therefore I Am Misunderstood" -- "My Turn" essay for Newsweek, October 16, 2006 - an extremely short article on being a philosophy professor

"The problem with moral knowledge," blog post at OUPblog, September 21, 2014.

"The Moral Argument for God's Existence; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Godless Morality," The Philosophers' Magazine 86:3 (2019).