Ratio Christi at University of North Carolina Wilmington

If the Devil has been an enemy of God and man since the beginning, why does he only appear so late in the biblical narrative?🧐 Why does he seem to simply be doing his job in the Book of Job rather than maliciously attacking Job unprompted?🤔 Does the New Testament misinterpret the Old Testament about Satan?🤨 Why doesn’t Lucifer have a consistent title across scripture?🤷‍♂️ And was it Satan or God that tempted David?

Join us Monday with Grant Forrester as we dig into these fascinating and complex questions in the Bible!

📆 Monday, 7/27 @ 7:00pm
📍Northside Church, Life Center, Room 207

“Arise, O LORD, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.” - Psalm 7:6

🤨Should these pleas for violent vengeance be in scripture? Is it ethical for Christians pray the Psalms of vengeance? Do these not contradict Jesus’ teaching of enemy love?🧐

Join us this Monday as we dive into the imprecatory Psalms, examining their historical meaning, their use today, and how they fit into the grand story of Scripture with Christian Furnari!

📆 Monday, 7/20 @ 7:00pm
📍Northside Church, Life Center, Room 207

Why is a woman ritually unclean TWICE as long after giving birth to a girl than a boy?🤨 Must a victim of s*xual assault MARRY her ra**st? Why are women considered ritual impure simply for having their period? Do these laws tend to assume women are in the wrong? Why do children inherit property before their mother does? Why must Israelite women marry within their own clans?🧐 Does God just hate women?

Join us this Monday as former Student Leader, Lydia Huggins, guides us through some of the Old Testament’s most disturbing and baffling laws around women and s*x.

🍪Also, it’s Sweet Treat Night! We will have cookies and other treats during Monday’s talk. Please feel free to bring your own tasty creations!

📆 Monday, 7/13 @ 7:00pm
📍Northside Church, Life Center, Room 207

Why is this bloody, excessively violent, death-spiral of a book a part of the Bible? How are such graphic and disturbing stories God’s very word? Ultimately, what are we supposed to learn through the violence and atrocities in the Book of Judges?

Join us this Monday with your questions as Darryl Kosciak takes us through arguably the grittiest book of Scripture.

📆 Monday, 6/29 @ 7:00pm
📍Northside Church, Life Center, Room 207

Huge shout out to all the ministries and students that planned and organized the Dance Like David Formal, and to every who came! Let’s throw it even bigger in Spring 2027!

May God continue to bless, protect, and provide for the amazing people at Life Line Pregnancy Center and the incredible work they do for families and women in need in Wilmington!

Why does the Old Testament, rather than outlaw slavery, regulate it?🤨 Why does slavery receive so much attention in the Bible? Does God value humans equally? Should we practice slavery today? Does God change his rules over time?

Explore these thorny but fruitful questions next Monday with us as Tom Jaski walks us through the wild world of the Old Testament!

📆 Monday, 6/22 @ 7:00pm
📍Northside Church, Life Center, Room 207

6 days, billions of years, or a single instant?🧐 Why are there so many contrary interpretations of Genesis? And how do we determine which on it right? How do we tell what is literal and what is metaphorical? Are either of those modes of communication less historical than the other?

Come join us this Monday as Student President Jack Harrington brings clarity to these difficult questions!

📆 Monday, 6/15 @ 7:00pm
📍Northside Church, Life Center, Room 207

“you shall LEAVE ALIVE NOTHING THAT BREATHES, but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded.” Deuteronomy 20:16-17

That sounds like divinely sanctioned ethnic cleansing. What are supposed to do with this dark corner of Scripture? And what do the Nephilim have to do with it?

Join us this Monday with Grant Forrester to explore this oft neglected narrative in Scripture!

📆 Monday, 6/8 @ 7:00pm
📍Northside Church, Life Center, Room 207

🧐What does the Bible have to say about female pastors and women in ministry in general? Whether the answer is positive, negative, or neutral, can we modify the Bible’s position for our times?

Come join us Monday night at 7pm for an open and friendly discussion on this pressing question!

📆 Monday, 3/9 @ 7:00pm
📍Cameron Hall, Rm 212

What is Transgenderism? What psychology lies behind it and how do we properly care for those seeking transition?

Come join us Monday night at 7pm to learn about and discuss this sensitive topic!

Stick around for Ratio After Dark after the talk! We’re heading over to Mooyah for a late dinner🍔

📆 Monday, 2/23@ 7:00pm
📍Cameron Hall, Rm 212