About the team behind Christwise
Christwise is an independent, lay-led apologetics project. It exists to help seekers, Christians, atheists, and agnostics examine the case for Christianity with rigor, charity, and primary sources in plain sight.
Our posture
Historic, creedal Christian faith — the Apostles' and Nicene confessions — read through the tradition's classical apologetic stream. Within that frame we draw on Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, and evangelical scholars wherever the argument is strongest. We try to steelman objections before answering them, and we credit good work by scholars who do not share our conclusions.
Why I built this
Christwise started as a personal learning project. I've recently been building web apps in my professional field, and I wanted a place of my own to keep growing in apologetics — a workshop where I could read carefully, take notes that stuck, and follow the evidence at my own pace.
I'm not a scholar. The arguments and historical claims here are not mine; they belong to the people listed on the and pages — historians, philosophers, scientists, and theologians who have spent careers on this material. My work is to read them carefully and bring their conclusions together in one place. I use AI tools to help build the app itself out from the vision I had for it, to surface additional scholars and subjects worth including, and at times to systematically synthesize and structure the texts and data, all of which are then checked with the cited sources.
Working on these lessons has strengthened my own understanding of the evidence for God across history, cosmology, and the manuscripts, and my own faith along with it. If the site helps anyone else take honest questions seriously and follow the evidence where it leads, that's more than enough reason to keep building.
How content is sourced
Every lesson is anchored to primary texts (when available), peer-reviewed scholarship, named contemporary apologists, and works by skeptical specialists. Confidence labels mark majority, minority, debated, and speculative claims so readers can calibrate their trust.
Tone we aim for
No dunking. No sneering at atheists, agnostics, or other Christian traditions. Real disagreement is welcome; contempt is not. We would rather lose a rhetorical point than win one uncharitably.
Editorial process
Lessons are drafted, checked against their cited sources, and revised before publication. Reader corrections are welcome and are reflected in subsequent updates.
Independence and funding
Christwise is not affiliated with any church, denomination, school, or publisher. The project is funded by readers who choose to chip in, plus small commissions from Amazon Associate links to books we already cite. Editorial decisions are made independent of those affiliate relationships.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, and feedback are welcome. The Contact page goes straight to the people who run the site.