BA: Hello, this is Brian Auten with Apologetics 315. Today’s interview is with apologist Kerby Anderson. Kerby serves as the president of Probe Ministries as well as host of Point of View radio talk show. He is the author of over a dozen books covering a wide array of biblical and apologetic topics. The purpose of this interview is to learn a bit more about Kerby and his ministry with Probe, explore the importance of worldview thinking and get his advice on equipping young people in the area of apologetics. Well, thanks for joining me for this interview today, Kerby.
KA: Well good to be with you Brian.
BA: Well first off, would you mind just telling our listeners a bit more about yourself and what your background is?
KA: Certainly. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and became a Christian in the 1960s and got involved with a number of different campus groups like Navigators and especially Campus Crusade for Christ. But the way I became a Christian in large part is due to this area of apologetics. I had gone to an event and heard somebody talking about Jesus in a very personal way and he mentioned some books, and I was able to find them. One was Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis. The other was a book of basic Christianity by John Stott. And so after reading those books, I really pretty much became a Christian. In a sense lead myself to Christ because I saw the sheer weight of evidence and then early on I had a chance to cross paths with people like Josh McDowell and others, so I was always even when I went to graduate school interested in apologetics. That was back in the day when we didn’t have that many books out. One of the first books I ever edited when I joined Probe Ministries was a book by Norm Geisler, so again, that got me into that area. And that’s something that Probe Ministries was very much involved with anyway. So I’ve really got a testimony in large part of being interested in knowing how to defend the Christian faith, knowing how to show some of the logical inconsistencies of a different world view. So in some respects, what I’m doing today after being with Probe 36 years is just sort of a culmination of what really was instrumental in my own conversion.
