Since the FRC’s purposes are to discover—and help others discover—many important aspects of CRF, Tom's primary processes must be to explore CRF and to explain what he discovers about it to others. For it is intellectually honest and courageous exploration that is most conducive to significant discovery, and it is kind-hearted, clear explanation of what one has discovered that is most conducive to helping others to discover. And so, this is what he does. He explores the Biblical, theological, and philosophical issues (and sometimes scientific issues) that are relevant to an intellectually insightful and reasonable understanding of the foundational claims of the faith, especially the saving content of the gospel; and then he explains what he discovers both in various kinds of events described below and in scores of conversations he has with anyone interested in such topics anywhere he happens to be.​