History
GODISNOWHERE is a ministry of truth and challenge. Since 1995 it has carried the same sign into the streets, colleges, fairs and festivals, for the purpose of bringing light, expecting heat, and holding hope to be present, delivered rationally and prayerfully into the hearts and minds of people who did not necessarily want or expect to hear the truth about the existence of God.
Founded 1995: An Evangelical Ministry
GODISNOWHERE began in 1995 as an explicitly evangelical Christian ministry. The mission was straightforward and confrontational: challenge people, spiritually, philosophically, and theologically, at the point of maximum resistance. Not behind church walls. In public. At fairs, festivals, city squares, and anywhere else people gathered.
The primary venue was the People's Fair in Denver, an annual event held in the heart of the city, drawing tens of thousands of attendees across every political, spiritual, and cultural position imaginable. For years, the team set up a tent, staffed it with literature and conversations, and engaged anyone and everyone. I used to always say, come Saturday or Sunday as we will have 300 thousand of our closest friends meeting us in downtown Denver.
Thousands of conversations over more than two decades. Some pleasant. Some hostile. Some that changed people on the spot. And many of these engagements changed us as well.
Mission: Equipping Believers, Engaging Skeptics
The ministry had a dual mandate from the beginning. First: equip believers. Most Christians in 1995, and today, had not been trained to engage the strongest secular objections to their faith. The arguments from religious diversity, from the problem of evil, from the history of Christian violence, from the silence of God, these were not rhetorical tricks. They were serious. GODISNOWHERE treated them seriously and built responses that held up under pressure.
Second: engage skeptics honestly, with the actual argument rather than bait-and-switch tactics, emotional manipulation, or selective evidence. The secular objections were always stated as their best advocates state them, then answered. Anything less was a disservice to both the skeptic and the truth.
The tent was an argument, not a conversation machine. Some people walked away more skeptical than when they arrived, and that was fine. The goal was always clarity rather than compliance.
The argument is now organized into four tracks: NO (the strongest secular objections), NOW (the affirmative physical evidence), NEAR (logic, philosophy, and inference), and GATE (the historical case for the resurrection). Each track is a curated sequence, not a collection. The sequence matters.
This is no longer only a tent-based ministry. It is not affiliated with a church, denomination, or institution. It is one person's thirty-year case, built argument by argument, evidence by evidence, and made available to anyone willing to follow it: the tent replaced by a website that never closes and needs no stakes in the ground.
"Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen."Matthew 28:20 · King James Version
Legacy Archive
Three early works, now presented in our current themes with their original documents preserved and linked. Each page carries the full text; the originals are available to download.
A Challenge and Response to the Open View
Daniel K. Hedrick's full theological paper engaging Open Theism, the view that God does not know the future with certainty because the future does not yet exist to be known. Interacts with Clark Pinnock, John Sanders, Greg Boyd, and Norman Geisler, and includes a 2004 exegetical supplement by co-founder Chris Hampton.
Heresy, the ETS, and the Open View
Hedrick's essay on the Evangelical Theological Society and the charge of heresy leveled against open theists, arguing the real question is the ontological condition of existence: the future cannot be known because it is non-existent. Engages the moves against Pinnock and Sanders and the Westminster Confession.
GODISNOWHERE: An American Journey
Hedrick's 2012 autobiography: a first-person account of a lifetime spent engaging strangers about God, truth, science, and philosophy, built around the GODISNOWHERE phrase and its double reading of "no" and "now." The complete book is available as the original PDF.
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