1. A very nice 2-part series on why we should believe the Bible from Shane Rosenthal. It's especially nice to see underutilized argument...

"Jesus himself — and all that God is for us in him — is our great reward, nothing less. 'I am the bread of life....If anyone thirst...

Yes, though advocates of the practice sometimes suggest otherwise by adding qualifiers Irenaeus didn't include. Let's look at a coup...

Obviously not. Yet, Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox often act as if passages in the church fathers about how the saints pray for us ar...

We're in another presidential election season. That means we'll be getting a lot of flattery from a lot of politicians trying to get...

An early view of America: "I am credibly informed, that multitudes of England, and especially worthy preachers, and silenced preacher...

Lydia McGrew recently posted a good video about an unjustified bias against "the possibility that events have happened on multiple occ...

Cameron Bertuzzi recently had a discussion with Jimmy Akin about some paranormal issues . They address some of the problems with being too q...

"God's endless mercy and the kindness shown to us in his Son are daily confirmed to us in the gospel. They should be the flame whic...

Stephen Woodford, who operates the Rationality Rules YouTube channel, recently posted a video about the alleged irrationality of theism . It...

"Believer! there was a delightful promise which you had yesterday; and this morning when you turned to the Bible the promise was not sw...

"For if when beloved by powerful men we are formidable to all, much more when [beloved] by God." (John Chrysostom, Homilies On Sec...

Led by the Shepherd strikes again! The man is a machine - a super A. I. machine! Below is his latest amazing work on behalf of Steve. (For t...

It was common in the ancient world for Christians to refer to Mary as a New Eve or Second Eve, similar to how Paul refers to Jesus as the Se...

I've sometimes cited H. Clay Trumbull's Friendship: The Master-Passion (Birmingham, Alabama: Solid Ground Christian Books, 2005) and...

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Consciousness of God is the starting point, the system-aligning principle, the archit...

Now, back to the greatness of our reward in heaven (Matthew 5:12). What is it? Staying here in the context of the Beatitudes, we see a sixfo...

In a recent post , I cited a book on the cult of the saints by Matthew Dal Santo. Something that often comes up in the book is the wide vari...

The pre-Reformation Hussites differed with each other in some of their beliefs, but we find a rejection of prayer to saints among some of th...

A little over a decade ago, Matthew Dal Santo published a book about skepticism of the cult of the saints in the late patristic and early me...