Apologist on the existential questions
Born in India, Zacharias attempted suicide as a teenager and was converted reading John 14:19 in a hospital bed. He founded RZIM and spent four decades speaking at universities worldwide, at his best when addressing not the technical arguments but the questions underneath them — meaning, despair, and whether life adds up.
His most durable contribution is a framework rather than a proof: every worldview must answer four questions — origin, meaning, morality and destiny — and must answer them with correspondence to reality and internal consistency. That test is genuinely useful and does not depend on him.
After his death, however, an independent investigation commissioned by his own ministry's board established that he had committed serious and sustained sexual abuse over many years. The honest position is that his framework can be used and credited, and that his personal example cannot be commended. Harvest states this rather than quietly deleting him, because a site that claims to test teachers by their lives owes its readers the test applied consistently.
The biblical and rational case for why Christianity is not one option among many — what is actually at stake, and why exclusivity is a claim about truth rather than an attitude of arrogance.
What Muslims actually believe, where the common ground and the real divergence lie, the objections you will meet, and how to engage a Muslim friend with truth and genuine love.
What Muslims actually believe and practise, the different shapes Islam takes — including the folk Islam of much of Africa — and where the gospel speaks into a Muslim's deepest longings.
What Hindus actually believe, why "Jesus is another avatar" is the real obstacle, and how to present a Christ who cannot be absorbed into the pantheon.
The four-question worldview test, why "all religions lead to God" is logically incoherent, and how to hold an exclusive claim without arrogance.