Purify Your Bride

J.I. Packer is an evangelical writer and theologian that I used to like a lot. He has announced he is leaving the Anglican church. It is a very sad thing. You can see why. The Anglican church has gotten more and more liberal over the years. He is not a liberal. He is a very […]

Ben M on Dave Armstrong’s blog talks about Augustine and the Donatists. Here is a quote:
For in the holy books where Christ the Lord is revealed, his Church is also made known.
But, though the Donatists come to know Christ only in the scriptures, with an amazing blindness they do not recognize his Church through the […]

Some great posts going on at Carl Olson’s blog. One quote from Pope Benedict he cites:
A Jesus who agrees with everyone and everything, a Jesus without his holy anger, without the hardness of truth and genuine love, is not the real Jesus as he is depicted in the Scriptures, but a pitiable caricature. A concept […]

In politics people try and stay positive but when things get a little more intense they tend to abandon that and just start throwing mud. It usually works. That is the public elects people who use this strategy. They complain about the sleazy political games but very worst tactics work time and time again. So […]

Bush use this phrase in his welcoming remarks to the pope. Of course, Pope Benedict used it first when he gave the homily at the conclave mass. It was like telling the Cardinals what he would focus on if they made him pope. They did and he did.
In debating this with people who think […]

Modern culture tries to root out prejudice in all it’s forms. This is a good thing. Things, like whites-only restaurants, that were common a few decades ago are almost unthinkable now. It is one of the great moral steps forward society has made in the last 50 years. It does lead to some questions.What exactly […]

Many admirers of Pope John Paul II are feeling sorry for Pope Benedict. You see it in the subtexts of many an analysis. John Paul was such an amazing man that trying to follow him is just impossible. What is behind that is the assumption that the amazingness of John Paul was a purely human […]

As a protestant layman one of the hard questions to answer was when was a church close enough to the truth to justify going there. There were a lot of reasons to go to a particular church. Music and preaching were important. Then there was the social or dating opportunities you saw in the church. […]

Rob Koons made some interesting comments on the Journey Home and also on a blog where he announced he was becoming Catholic. He talked about the burden of proof being on the Lutheran to show why Lutheranism is superior to Catholicism. His idea is that in order to break up the church you need to […]

There have been a few discussions about the best way allow people to arrive at truth when there are opposing viewpoints. On Catholic Exchange a few days ago there was an article on political talk shows. How certain shows tend to give more time to one side of an argument. Then there is the discussion […]

I have been volunteering at a prison ministry for the past few weeks. I ran into one guy last night who was quite interesting. He said he was a Christian. He has accepted Jesus into his heart and believed his sins were forgiven. But he said he didn’t believe in authority. Nobody but Jesus should […]

We rented the movie Enchanted this weekend. It is yet another one of those movies that spoofs all the fairy tale stories. It seems like Shrek started this trend and it just goes on and on. It seems like our society is much better at poking fun at the classic stories than at telling them. […]

I read a couple of interesting books by a guy named Leonard Sax over lent. They were called Why Gender Matters and Boys Adrift. He has some very interesting things to say. He is a psychologist and an MD and approaches the subject of gender from a purely scientific point of view. He quote a […]

I have to say how impressed I have been with Barak Obama. I am Canadian but I do follow American politics. The last few decades have not seen anybody come on the scene who is a true leader. I am just old enough to remember Trudeau and Reagan. Those guys were leaders. They had very […]

As many of you have figured out I have taken a break from blogging during lent. It was a good choice. Blogging has been a real blessing to me but I need to keep it in balance. I probably want to do less of it from now on. I have other priorities. I have a […]