Ratio Christi at University of North Carolina - Charlotte

06/17/2026

Big news for the upcoming Fall semester! 🚀

We’ve officially locked in a spot for Ratio Christi at UNCC’s 49er Frenzy! This is one of the biggest recruiting events of the year, giving us an incredible window to welcome incoming students and connect them with a community rooted in truth and purpose right as they start their college journeys.

Because our final official student org approval is still processing, our chapter is stepping up to cover the $200 registration fee out of pocket to make sure we don't miss this opportunity.

If you’d like to partner with us to launch this semester strong—either by helping us offset this specific event fee or by fueling our upcoming campus activities—please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Ratio Christi @ UNCC today!

https://give.ratiochristi.org/chapter/university-of-north-carolina-charlotte

04/24/2026

An excellent turnout at our event last week, "Is He Really Good? Aslan, Lewis, and the Problem of Pain." Thanks again to Dr. Williams and all who showed up and participated in this event!

To the attendees: Let's keep the conversation going! What stood out to you from the lecture and Q&A?

To everyone: what questions or thoughts do you have on the problem of evil (why does God allow so much evil and suffering in the world)?

04/12/2026

Dr. Donald T. Williams, author of "Answers from Aslan: the Enduring Apologetics of C.S. Lewis" will be visiting our campus at UNCC this Thursday and giving a lecture on the "problem of evil."

Don't miss this opportunity to hear from an expert on this ever-important issue—and bring your questions! There's a live Q&A session after the lecture!

Free Registration link: https://chapters.ratiochristi.org/event/is-he-really-good-aslan-lewis-and-the-problem-of-pain/

Check out the book the featured quote (below) is pulled from, plus all his other books, at: www.donaldtwilliams.com

04/09/2026

Why does our all-powerful, perfectly good God allow evil and suffering in the world?

Let's start considering what thoughtful questions we can pose to our guest speaker, Donald T. Williams, at our event on April 16th ("Is He Really Good? Aslan, Lewis, and the Problem of Pain").

Any ideas?

(The book featured in the image is one of Dr. Williams' recent publications. Check out this and many others of his books at www.donaldtwilliams.com)

Does the world really need another book about C.S. Lewis?

Donald T. Williams thinks the answer is yes—and for a good reason.

Lewis wrote his most influential apologetics works nearly 80 years ago, in the middle of World War II. The world has changed dramatically since then. Yet many of his arguments—from the moral argument and the argument from reason to the famous trilemma—still shape how Christians think about faith today.

But simply repeating Lewis is not enough.

In Answers from Aslan, Williams explores Lewis’s arguments, their strengths, their limits, and—most importantly—how they can be adapted for a new generation. The goal is not to imitate Lewis word-for-word, but to learn his method so we can defend the faith thoughtfully in our own time and voice.

Along the way the book revisits some of Lewis’s most powerful ideas:
• The moral argument for God
• The argument from reason
• The argument from desire
• Lewis’s narrative vision of Christianity
• The problem of evil
• The role of imagination in apologetics

C.S. Lewis may still be the dean of Christian apologetics, but his real gift was teaching believers how to think.

This book helps us do exactly that.

Check the comments to learn more about Answers from Aslan: The Enduring Apologetics of C.S. Lewis.

04/04/2026

To all who are in range of the Charlotte area, Thursday April 16th, 7:00-8:30pm, you'll have an opportunity to hear from one of the foremost scholars on the thought and writings of C.S. Lewis, coming to speak on-campus at UNC Charlotte!

Co-hosted by Ratio Christi @ UNCC and Ignite UNC Charlotte, Guest Lecturer Donald T. Williams (Professor Emeritus of Toccoa Falls College) will be speaking on the problem evil: "Is He Really Good? Aslan, Lewis, and the Problem of Pain." There will be a live Q&A session afterward, so bring your thoughtful questions!

Register for your FREE ticket(s) here (or scan the QR code): https://chapters.ratiochristi.org/.../is-he-really-good.../

Donald T. Williams, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Toccoa Falls College and a past president of the International Society of Christian Apologetics. A dual citizen of Narnia and Middle-earth, he stays camped out on the borders between serious scholarship and pastoral ministry, literature and theology, poetry and apologetics. He is the author of sixteen books including The Young Christian’s Survival Guide (Christian Publications, 2019) and Answers from Aslan: the Enduring Apologetics of C. S. Lewis (DeWard: 2023).

You can find all sixteen of his books by visiting: www.donaldtwilliams.com

03/02/2026

Please pray for a Hindu young man named "Om." My wife Regan and I were out doing outreach on campus, using a large floor puzzle to present some "undesigned coincidences" (subtle corroborating details across the gospel accounts—a feature of eyewitness testimony), and this young man approached us and interacted for a while. Ultimately, he expressed serious consideration of following Jesus, but he asked us very directly, "Could I still continue respecting the gods of Hinduism while accepting Jesus?" We answered him frankly (but tried to do so gently), that if he declares his allegiance to the True King, he cannot support pretenders to the throne. He said he wasn't sure what to do at this point (fair enough!—we only spoke for about 10 minutes!), but we encouraged him to simply read the Gospel of John and pray for God to reveal Himself to him, offering our contact information for follow-up dialogue. Again, please be praying that he would start getting to know Jesus through His word, and ultimately come fully into the Kingdom of God!

02/11/2026

At our meeting this week, we discussed the Moral Argument for the existence of God. One of the short videos we watched was the following, where two atheists are discussing the nature of morality:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zXgZvdC9GFU

I took the liberty of leaving the following comment on this video, reflecting some of what we discussed:

"Even though Alex recognizes that moral truths exist, I think he is missing something. By their nature, moral truths are not just "descriptive," in the way that 2+2=4 is descriptive (simply containing information). Moral truths are "prescriptive" - as if they are in a command form. That's how we relate to them, as commands. It's like the information they contain is in the imperative mood, "do not murder," and so forth. So if these transcendent commands simply exist. . . doesn't it at least make sense that some sort of Authority had to issue the commands?"

What do you think about Alex O'Connor's analysis of morality as discoverable through "unprovable intuition"?

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01/22/2026

Last week, I had an engaging conversation with an atheist (perhaps technically agnostic) student named Riley. He was very polite and respectful, and in some ways he was self aware of his bias and even a kind of secular religiosity. He felt sure, however, that whatever evidence I might bring in favor of Christianity, he would have already heard it before. Then I asked him if he had heard of the argument from Messianic prophecy, and he said he hadn’t! It was totally new to him when I presented the Servant Songs / Suffering Servant passages of Isaiah, including the famous Isaiah 53!

Even though this might expose a little bit of hubris on his part (that he must already have heard everything), it actually speaks to the depth of need within the church to become better prepared to answer for why we believe what we believe. It may well be that Riley had spoken with so many Christians who parroted back to him the same shallow answers that he understandably despaired of hearing anything new! This is precisely why we do what we do—to help students become better equipped to represent Christ in an intellectually compelling and winsome way to their peers. Although Riley still left the conversation skeptical of the evidence that I presented, he did admit that the prophecy would be compelling, if I was representing it / interpreting it correctly (which he doubted). Unfortunately we did not have time to break it down together in detail, but let’s be praying that Riley would look into it further on his own and that his eyes would be opened to the truth of the Gospel!

11/25/2025

A Testimony of God's Providence:

I spoke to a young man named Ezra while doing some outreach on campus—he initially told me that he didn’t get into the politics of discussing religion (and he seemed hesitant to call himself a Christian or religious). At a certain point, I felt prompted to say, if what Jesus Christ said about Himself were actually true, this would be earth-shatteringly important. He agreed! I encouraged him to read one of the gospels if he never had done so before, to which he replied that his mother had raised him to often read through Psalms 21 & 23. To me, this seemed providential—why not complete the “sandwich” and read the psalm in the middle, Psalm 22! I explained that although David wrote the psalm, the suffering it describes goes way beyond anything David himself experienced; instead, it reads almost like an eyewitness account of the crucifixion, which wouldn’t occur for 1,000 years after David! It seemed to seal the deal for him when I pointed out that Jesus quoted the first line of this psalm from the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”—as if to say to us all, “Go and read this psalm!” Ezra had heard of these words of Jesus, but he never knew they were a quotation! He said, “Now, I’ve got to read it!”

One hopes and prays that the person will actually follow through in a case like this, but who knows if they really will? Well, in this instance, God graciously let me know, as I encountered the same student the next day, and he said to me, unprompted, “I am a worm and not a man—scorned by mankind…” I simply said, “You read it!”—and with an exchange of greetings, our conversation was over. But we can be sure that God has left an indelible mark on Ezra through His word! Please be praying for this young man!

10/30/2024

Greetings Ratio Christi community! Although the UNCC chapter has been inactive since last year, we are looking to change that! My wife Regan and I (Wesley Price) have been brought on board to direct the chapter moving forward, but we need your help to get started:

We are seeking to put together a team of ministry partners who will propel this work forward through prayer and financial backing that enables us to dedicate the time and resources needed. If God leads you to sow into this, our official donation page can be found here (donations are tax-deductible):

https://give.ratiochristi.org/missionary/wesley-price

Our greatest need right now is monthly support. Looking forward to bringing Ratio Christi back to UNCC, as soon as we can raise the necessary funds! Feel free to message if would like more information or have questions.