Purify Your Bride

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Its so often about fear. When did we forget to teach our children to trust in God’s Providential Care for our children? To work at building our education and career so we would be capable of caring for our children. To teach our children to love their siblings and work […]

I wonder about this but not for the same reasons most people do. I can see very valid reasons why the church opposes gay sex and gay marriage. I can see why they say it is disordered. On the other hand I agree with the church that contracepted sex is disordered. That a marriage that […]

It follows from Sola Scriptura that there should be no new doctrines. Scripture does not change so if all doctrine is based on the clear teaching of scripture then there should not be any new doctrines. What was clearly biblical one, two, three hundred years ago should be the exact same things that are clearly biblical […]

I heard one pastor at a funeral talk about the two basic questions that come up. One question is ‘Why?’ Especially if the deceased is young and the death unexpected. Like Sean Taylor’s death. Why questions just leap to mind. Then there is the second question nobody dares ask. That is ‘Is it really true?’ […]

One of the chief complaints about the Catholic church is that they hate sex. This is one of those charges that anyone who defends the Catholic church has refuted time and time again. But you can see where it comes from. Someone considering coming into the Catholic church, who has learned their sexual behaviour from […]

I have been focusing a lot of effort on issues of truth. How can we determine what is true? How do protestants do it? How do Catholics do it? How do atheists do it? It involves logic, scripture, history, philosophy, etc. One thing that it should never involve but often seems to be driving it […]

I popped over to Rebecca’s blog called Catholic In Film School. She has an interesting post there on not dating until you are ready to get married. This is one of those thing that seems so obvious when you sit down and think about it but people rarely live it out. I know when I […]

The desire to give thanks for the good things in life runs deep in all of us. So many things in life don’t come from our design or efforts. Our families, our talent, our health, our friends, the list goes on. So it made sense to the American Indians to have a feast to give […]

I found a Canadian Catholic website. As a Canadian I often find news from my own country hard to find on the web. Here is an interesting talk from Toronto’s ABp Collins about St Thomas Moore. I like ABp Collins a lot. He was out in Alberta for many years before getting his big promotion to […]

The world is full of beliefs about the transcendent. Where did we come from? What is the meaning and purpose of life? What happens to us after we die? What is the basis for morality? These are religious questions and in this world or instant communications we have access to many, many answers to these questions. […]

You get frustrated these days with how few people are willing or able to think deeply about the big questions of life. The Catholic blogoshere is a pleasant exception to this rule but once you get outside it there are very few real thinkers out there. I wonder why this is.
I think the market economy […]

Found a wonderful conversion story. It has in it a thought that I have been contemplating for a while now.
The bishop who has presided over the splintering of my own diocese has been fond of saying since 2003 that he prefers heresy to schism because if you have schism you cannot remedy heresy. I have […]

Kyl sent me to the Stand To Reason and suggested I look at some of Gregory Koukl’s stuff. I thought I would respond to one thing I found there. Greg’s word will be in italics:
Today I was thinking about a concept that came up in conversation, a challenge raised to Christians who offer their point […]

JP Moreland gave a talk at the Evangelical Theological Society called “How Evangelicals Became Over-Committed to the Bible and What Can Be Done About It.” It is interesting that such talks are given. He seems to point out a problem very well. What has happened to many theologians in response to secularism is they have […]

These programs tend to be very popular. When done well they can get teens really thinking about sexual morality. That is a good thing. Teens like them as well. They get to sit around and talk about sex for a while. That can be fun. These programs often treat the teens as intelligent humans capable […]