General Information about Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry

by Matt Slick

Who/What is CARM? - CARM is several people who help keep it running.  Matt Slick who is the founder and president; Diane Sellner who runs the discussion boards and chat room.

Why this site? - To equip Christians with the truth, to expose the error of false religious systems, evolution, to teach apologetics, help Christians defend the faith, and to glorify the Lord Jesus.

When did it begin? - October 25 of 1995.

Who started CARM? - Matt Slick

Who comes to CARM? - Everybody from everywhere. CARM has had inquires from every continent, island groups (large and small) from all over the word.

Has the CARM website brought anyone out of a cult? - Praise God, YES! We've been told that CARM has helped people leave cults as well as prevent many from joining. The CARM material has been used to structure Bible studies, Sunday School Classes, emails, tracts, etc.  All for the Lord Jesus' glory.

CARM Radio - CARM also has a radio show that can be checked out at www.carm.org/radio.  The radio show is podcasted (itunes subscription, too...just search for CARM Radio) and is downloaded more than 40,000 a month.

Email - CARM gets about 50 emails a day - not counting spam.

Page Views - A page view is when someone looks at a page.   So far, CARM averages about 48,000 page views a day with about 1.3 million page views monthly

Attacks and hacks - Matt Slick, CARM's President, has received several death threats, threats against his family, as well as promises to destroy CARM.  Also, various "discontented" individuals and/or groups have tried to hack into CARM and CARM has received a ton of spam email designed to overload the email system.

CARM is still standing, praise God.

To God be the glory.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email CARM.