Purify Your Bride

Dan over at Armenian Chronicles wrote a post in reply to Dave Armstrong about Sola Scriptura. I replied a bit in the comment boxes there but I wanted to make a post as well. One comment he made I found interesting. He said he accepted Sola Scriptura because it was the “last man standing”. That [...]

Why do people of faith have more kids? Modern thinkers are puzzled by this here. It is interesting that they see the causal realtionship going the other way. That is that maybe having lots of children causes you to become stronger in your faith. There is another article here.
First of all, they seem to [...]

Colin Powell talked about blacks being annoyed at the Republican party doing so much shouting and so little listening. I think blogging is like that. It is a medium that lends itself well to shouting and not so well to listening. But Vatican II tells us the first step in dialogue with non-Catholics is listening. [...]

I found this piece by Chuck Colson linked on CNN’s front page. It contains a brief sketch of his conversion story and lots of quotes from CS Lewis. Just when you think the media is hopelessly anti-Christian they do something like this. We have such a strong tendency to view people or organizations as good [...]

One thing about being Catholic. Most people have serious problems listening to you. There are some major walls you have to deal with before you can have a useful exchange of ideas about faith. I find that is true of protestants and also of atheists or secular people. Even people who normally love to talk [...]

Isn’t Christmas time wonderful? The media drag out their stories on religion because they sell at Christmas and Easter. Newsweek has an article on gay marriage and the bible. It accidentally does a pretty good job of refuting Sola Scriptura. I freely admit that if I had to prove gay marriage was wrong just from [...]

Stories of the saints are an important part of raising our kids in the catholic faith. But there seems to have been a big change in the way those stories are told. The older accounts tend to be quite graphic and detailed when describing the tortures many of these saints suffered. The more modern retellings [...]

Apparently there are men with an extra Y chromosome. The interesting thing about them is they are predisposed towards committing aggressive acts. Not all of them do but a much higher number and the cause and effect relationship is quite well understood and widely accepted. Many of these aggressive acts are also immoral acts. They [...]