Ryan Pauly
Ryan Pauly is the founder and president of Think Well and the Director of Immersive Experiences at MAVEN. He has been working with junior high, high school, and college students for over a decade as a missionary, school teacher, field guide and speaker. After graduating from college he became a missionary in the Dominican Republic where he spent four years teaching English, Worldview, Apologetics, and Leadership to junior high and high school students. Ryan moved back to Southern California in 2015 and started teaching Historical Christian Doctrine and Apologetics, Comparative Religions and Worldviews, and Philosophy of Ethics at a Southern California Christian high school. He taught high school full-time for 12 years until 2023 when he left to work with Think Well and MAVEN. Ryan started in the apologetics world back in 2015 with his blog, Coffeehouse Questions. This led to the podcast in 2016 and YouTube in 2020. Think Well was officially launched in June of 2022. Ryan joined MAVEN as a field guide in 2017 and was promoted to Director of Immersive Experiences in 2023. He also serves as a faculty member at Summit Ministries, a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Reasons to Believe Scholar Community, and a volunteer at www.talkaboutdoubts.com. Ryan received a Bachelor’s degree in Theology with an emphasis in youth leadership from Vanguard University. He completed his Master’s degree in Christian apologetics from Talbot School of Theology and is currently working toward a Doctor of Ministry in Practical Theology. His research is focused on what Scripture says about the most pressing practical issues of our day like gender and sexuality, race, technology, politics, deconstruction, and more. He also holds a certificate in Science Apologetics from the Reasons Institute.
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May 19, 2019 at 9:31 pm
I just saw this linked by I think Jim Wallace on FB and I just say Thank you, thank you. . I tell people this: Just as God revealed His personal name to Moses as YWVH (I AM), there is also the IT IS. As far as is possible for a finite created being, which I am, I want to know the IT IS. If it turns out the IT IS completely refutes everything I have come to believe and hold dear, why would I want to pretend to believe a lie? I don’t see how I could be any more intellectually, spiritually or philosophically honest than that. But…Having spent over 4 decades diligently searching in myriad schools of thought from myriad different areas of scholastic disciplines including the sciences, philosophical thought and the veracity of the biblical accounts in a number of ways we could explore together…I have concluded biblical Christianity provides the most consistant and rational depiction of how the world actually is. And that doesn’t even begin to touch on the many personal and experiential reasons I have.
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May 19, 2019 at 9:58 pm
Thank you! I really appreciate this comment. I would say that I feel the same way. I have spent years looking at the evidence and have found it overwhelming. Personal experience only confirms it further. However, the honest thing to do is walk away if proven false. Thanks!
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