Among the many barriers to “successful” evangelism (here thought in terms of making the issues of the gospel clear and defending, if necessary, their truth value), some of the more prominent ones that needs be mentioned are those that are of a more rational nature. Indeed, it is typically in academe that intellectual questions are raised and couched in their most sophisticated forms.
While we provide resources for rational objections, the Journey website as a whole takes the view that most opposition (and disinterest) to gospel have NON-RATIONAL roots. What’s we’re suggesting is paradoxically sometimes answering the rational questions can be a bunny trail if the real problem is non-rational. So some sort of discernment is necessary to become good at responding to objections.
In fact, the most basic skill of a Journey guide is learn to discern between rational and 
non-rational objections, respond appropriately and avoid the wasteful bunny trails that proceed when we go askew. Of course, serious rational issues are not always bunny trails and they need to be addressed forthrightly.
The design of the apologetics portion of this site is NOT merely to produce or give you the “right” answer to certain rational objections (though that can be done with these resources); it was mainly designed to provide resources to help YOU formulate answers to those objections.
To access the Απολογία Portal (apologetic) site, click on the link provided above. You will be going off of this site to another site (with other home pages and so forth) maintained by Academic Connections. When you’re finished exploring and using those resources, simply close those other tabs and this tab will remain open.
To seek to do ministry under the radar screen of responding to rational objections means that you and your ministry will be likely (and more easily) marginalized by main-stream academia. Of course, the challenge is to have a relational approach with our colleagues without neglecting relevant rational issues.
The good (apologetic) news is that there has been an extraordinary advancement in the last fifty years both in the quantity and quality of apologetic literature that has been produced. For example, few people are aware of the renaissance of Christian philosophy that occurred at Calvin college in the decades following the second world war and its widespread influence on apologetics in the latter part of the twentieth century.
A whole separate sub-site has been created to address apologetic issues which typically come up in academe. The design of the site includes three levels of apologetics which roughly correspond secondary and tertiary questions that can be asked about the nature of apologetics. It is because we believe that Christian theism makes some significant truth claims--which transcend individual culture, sociology, and conceptual schemes--that we both proclaim it (in this case speak conversationally about it in the academic world with your colleagues) and defend it rationally. However, in order to be clear, the sort of apologetics that we hold does not endorse the view that people can be rationally coerced into the Kingdom.
It is recommended that you contact us to receive help in integrating a robust rational defense of the Christian faith with a relational mode of doing evangelism. Again feel free to contact us (see email address below) and we will do our best for you!