Apologetics zoom group
I proposed an apologetics zoom group about 2 years ago in here. I got some interest from a few people and then my life kinda got crazy kinda fast and I didn't get into reddit much. Now I tried to bump that thread to bring it back up but it is not letting me. I think I have a more well developed idea now anyways.
So now I have been getting back into heavier apologetics a lot in the last several months and my life has seemingly calmed down a fair bit. Wondering if there would still be any interest in doing a zoom group. I was thinking it could be on 1 day a month or perhaps every week? I'm not sure what type of schedule would be conducive to 1 peoples schedules or 2 the format that I am thinking of.
The format I am imagining here would be a 1 or a combination of upto 5 different types of group interaction:
1Topic driven where one of us in the group pics a topic and then develops an indepth presentation(possibly interactive?) And then gives that presentation to the group to later be opened up for q/a.
For example, someone might go through 1 or all 5 of Aquinas' 5 proofs of Gods existence, the next person might do an in depth exposition on the Muslim Dilema, another person might dive into the historicity of Jesus and/or the reliability of Scripture.
2 A general freeform round table disscussion on a particular topic/book with an agreed upon reading material. Tactics by Koukl or On Guard by Craig, for example. Or even more generic discussions about more fundamental topics like basic logic or the Socratic method.
3 Watching other content from youtube and rumble to see how certain view points are actually argued in the real world often by your general lay person (Im thinking of the live call in discussions by Godlogic, David Wood, Etc. Or the presentations by Frank Turek or J Warner Wallace) and then a discussion after.
4 A mock debate where 1 side argues for a position and another side presents the view points(as best as we can understand them since we likely will not hold those beliefs) of the opposition.
5 Just general fellowship time to get to know each other on a personal level, talk about other hobbies, music etc. Basically just talk about whatever is on our hearts, anything and everything under the sun as a group of friends.
I kinda listed these in an order of what I perceive to be most to least intensive/time consuming for any given person/productive for the purposes of apologetics. Some of thes ideas may or may not be totally hammered out. If anyone else has an idea for another type of group gathering, Id be open to hearing that too. Some are of more or less value than others, and possibly a couple could be done as a secondary gathering on a different day given the potentially lower value offered, and thereby less interest. I am certainly open to discussion and critique.