Purify Your Bride

The Christian religion is based on the idea that Jesus brought us the gospel. That while He was on earth He gave us revelation about God. That is the central reason why Christians can claim to know more about God. God came to us in the form of Jesus and told us. That is why [...]

I was listening to Scott Hahn talk about Richard Dawkins on a YouTube from Catholic Audio.
What stuck me was how he saw Dawkins as being effective not because his arguments were good but because of his style. Something he described as a confidence and a swagger that you find in Fundamentalist pastors. They might not [...]

This seems to be a much viewed short answer by Richard Dawkins:

It seems many people see this idea that culture influences religion as somehow proving all religion wrong. The idea that there are many kinds of theism proves they cannot all be completely correct. The notion that culture and tradition influence people’s thinking on these [...]

This is such a typical protestant pattern. Every so often the church becomes liberal and a faithful remnant breaks off. That remnant normally does not even think of becoming Catholic. They want to remain as they were. Becoming Catholic is about major change. Why should the Anglicans be different? In many ways they won’t be. [...]

My son Peter is 5. He loves to watch Bibleman. That is a video series about a superhero who defeats evil by quoting bible verses. Bibleman talks about the importance of following Jesus. Now Peter asks me, “How does he know where Jesus is going?” It is a fair question. It is easy to imagine [...]

I listen to a fair bit of Christian radio. One think I notice as a Catholic that I never paid much attention to as a protestant is how they constantly use phrases like “scripture tells us”, “we know from the bible”, “the bible clearly teaches”, etc. Often the show itself is called something like Let [...]

Does Prince Caspian contain Christian values? Is Barak Obama a Christian? These are some questions I have seen debated recently that made clear how confused people are about what it means to be Christian. Certainly it must include more than just saying some nice words about Jesus? It needs to involve the radical world-changing message [...]

I have always known about the two natures of Christ. I learned in catechism class that Jesus is full God and fully man. Not half God and half man but totally and completely God and totally and completely man. Something that does not seem possible but that is what scripture says. That is an interesting [...]

Someone pointed me to this article. It is quite useful to look at what passed for deep thinking these days. He mostly takes as obvious that evolution implies there is no God. So most of what he says is true and good insight into evolution. Then he just kind of jumps to his conclusion like [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]