I've argued elsewhere that Jesus' high claims about himself in the fourth gospel can't be dismissed as easily as critics often s...

I've mentioned Seth Kasten's book against prayer to saints in the past . He started a video series on the topic at Scholastic Luther...

The subject is important not only because of the use of Zeitoun by Roman Catholics, but also because of how positively other non-Copts view ...

You can watch it here . Trent made some good points against Alex's position during the debate, but I want to supplement what he said wit...

"Now, if you love what He made, what must He be who made it? If the world is beautiful, what must be the Author of the world?" (un...

Fatima has been getting an unusual amount of attention lately, largely because of a recent debate on the subject between Ethan Muse and Sean...

Because prayer to angels and saints is so absent from and contradicted by the Biblical sources and the earliest extrabiblical ones, advocate...

One of the most important steps you can take in evaluating the issues that come up in life is to ask what assumptions are being made at the ...

One of the issues I've often discussed here over the years is who we should pray to. Should we pray to saints and angels or only pray to...

A neglected line of evidence for the fourth gospel's authorship is how closely John 19:35, 20:31, and 21:24 align with what Jesus said a...

Not every part of the gospels (and Acts, which is a continuation of one of the gospels) is written in the third person (e.g., Luke 1:1-3, Ac...

I want to add a lesser point to what I discussed in my last post . Thomas doesn't have the prominence Philip does in the lists of Jesus...

Some of Jesus' disciples who never speak as individuals in the Synoptics do so one or more times in the fourth gospel. Or they're mo...

In some of my posts over the years (like here and here ), I've written about the importance of thinking beyond our generation. We'r...

When it comes to the perpetual virginity of Mary, do you agree with the Catholic view or with the view of Protestant reformers Martin Luther...

He was recently on Ross Douthat's Interesting Times podcast , and there was some discussion of the historicity of the gospels, the resur...

One of the subjects that sometimes comes up in the context of Good Friday is the thief on the cross. Advocates of baptismal regeneration and...

Writing of the Garden of Gethsemane, Matthew tells us that Jesus took some of his disciples with him, but "went a little beyond them, a...

Critics of religion and the paranormal are often overly focused on hypotheticals. Too much time in the abstract, too little time in the conc...

Someone asked the above question. Here's my reply to him, though I've added a bit more than was in my original reply. And my reply r...