Brian did another interview, this time with Sean McDowell. He’s pretty fun to listen to.

The MP3 file is here.

Topics:

• with respect to faith, do young people care about more about truth or emotional happiness?
• what projects is Sean working on lately?
• what was it like being the son of famous apologist Josh McDowell?
• how did Sean become a Christian?
• what did Sean’s father say when Sean expressed doubts in Christianity?
• how did Sean build up his convictions about the truth of Christianity?
• what effect does the father’s relationship to the child have on the child’s Christian faith?
• how did Sean get interested in apologetics?
• what resources had the biggest effect on Sean’s apologetics training?
• should you be concerned when someone you care about starts to doubt?
• what should you say to someone who has doubts?
• how should you respond to tough questions from young people?
• how can a person encourage their church to adopt apologetics?
• what’s a good book on intelligent design theory for young people?

This is fun because I spend a lot of time thinking about how to pass my faith along to my children in a way that will still allow them to question and rebel. It’s a really challenging problem, but Sean seems to know how to do it.

Don’t miss the MP3 from Sean’s first debate on whether morality is possible without God.