Purify Your Bride

I seem to be running into this guy more and more lately. I think that is a good thing. He has a good article on the connections between nominalism, abortion, contraception, and Abp Burke. Great stuff.
But let’s consider some uncomfortable questions. What if there is an intrinsic connection between the popular acceptance of contraceptives, and [...]

Mark Shea has a post up about bias in the news. He points out that newsmen lie when they say that the news is unbiased. If you scratch them they will admit some bias. They try and be objective but ultimately they fail. But they still promote their news like it is unbiased. Because people [...]

Caught a bit of the journey home on EWTN last night. Not sure who was sharing. But he was talking a bit about authority and certainty like they often do. He was saying he found authority in a complex coherent system. The idea of having many interlocking pieces. Their is a kind of beauty in [...]

One reason I don’t like to blog too much about justification is that some people do it so much better than I do. Bryan Cross is one such person. Here is a reply he gave to a protestant on the topic. He is very gracious. Maybe too much so. I think it would be useful [...]

Christians believe in the bible. Why do they believe? That is a harder question. Why can’t they just believe in Jesus and not believe in the bible. Well, the bible tells us about Jesus. Sure it does. But if someone chose to say that Hebrews or Revelation was not God’s truth would they still be [...]

What kind of protestant is likely to become Catholic? My first thought is conservative protestants. They believe in truth. That God’s truth has been revealed. It is not ours. We cannot change it. It has to change us. Liberal protestants see religion as just another social institution. We can change our view of faith and [...]

When the New Testament refers to the scriptures what is it talking about? There were actually two scriptures the Jews recognized. A Hebrew scripture and a Greek scripture which is know as the Septuagint or the LXX. Both are quoted in the New Testament. Both are quoted by Jesus. So it makes sense to accept [...]

Why does the church bother with the annulment process? If you have been married and want to remarry why do they make it so hard. One of the key questions they want to answer is whether or not your view of marriage has changed significantly since you married the first time. For many people the [...]

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Have I mentioned lately how much I love our pope? I think this opening of doors to potential Anglican converts is a great move. He continues to make strong appointments. Burke just celebrated the old mass in the Vatican. There are just so many positive things coming our of the Vatican.
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Speaking of Pope Benedict. I [...]

Why don’t protestants take Catholics seriously. Part of it is tradition but there is more. One key factor is that protestants tend to be mission focused. Nobody sees how a pope and a bishop are going to help them in their missions. They want to see lives change. The crisis of truth has made that [...]

Nick suggested I discuss verses 18-22 of Romans 4. I’ll bite:
18Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 19Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since [...]

When I was a protestants we had sermons about church unity from time to time. One point often made was that unity did not mean uniformity. That is that God does not call us to be all the same but calls us to be united. The idea was that we are all different but united [...]

I did want to do a post on Romans this week. Last week there were quite a few reading from that book and it did get me thinking. I also ran into some comments from Adomnan and Nick on Dave Armstrong’s blog. Adomnan pointed out an interesting fact. They key word that drives much of [...]

These are all the rage in St Blog’s. I thought I would bite.
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Wondering about swine flu and the health care debate. Up here in Canada we had a report that indicated swine flu had the potential to cause massive hospitalization. Beyind that the victims often required special treatment. The normal ventilator was not enough. A [...]

While I reviewed Rob Bell’s preaching on revelation. Steve Ray examines a sermon by Charles Stanley. Good stuff. I was not raised in a tradition that talked about the “sinner’s prayer”. I guess it is pretty common. Steve does a good job of not only showing why it is wrong but how easy it is [...]