The Acts Of Paul is an apocryphal document typically dated to the second half of the second century. There's a passage there that's ...

For several years, I've been maintaining a collection of resources on Reformation-related topics, found here . I wanted to link it in an...

There's not just one way to do it. But I want to outline one approach that can be taken.

One of the issues that comes up in disputes over prayer to saints is how much they know about what's happening on earth. Passages like R...

There are some passages in the Old Testament that condemn resorting to mediums and some other practices (Deuteronomy 18:10-12, Leviticus 20:...

For many years now, advocates of prayer to saints and angels have been citing an article by Meir Bar-Ilan that discusses ancient Jewish beli...

People often overlook some of the evidence that's relevant to evaluating prayer to saints. After praying to saints became popular (with ...

Concerning some of the opposition to prayer to saints around the time of the Second Council of Nicaea, Dirk Krausmuller writes:

David Pallmann recently released a good video on the alleged anonymity of the gospels . It covers a lot of ground and includes a large amoun...

I've said a lot about the subject over the years. I've linked Michael Nahm's article about similarities between UFO-related even...

We've written a lot over the years about the Reformation's deepest roots, such as the Biblical and patristic ones . I want to quote ...

Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox have been citing him in support of the practice for a long time, including in response to Gavin Ortlund...

I've sometimes brought up the hymn "Angels From The Realms Of Glory" in discussions of prayer to saints and angels. The first...

Gavin Ortlund recently released a video on prayer to saints . Some Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox have responded. Origen's view of...

In a recent video discussing his conversion to Roman Catholicism, Joe Schmid said : "And then, totally unsurprisingly, given their de...

I've sometimes talked about the harm done by flattery. It's a common theme in Proverbs (e.g., 29:5), but Christians and others who s...

"We know that some merchants who are illiterate look for literate mercenaries; although they themselves do not know letters, they acqui...

Ephrem the Syrian, writing in the fourth century, made some of the same points I've made about early Christian eschatology . He doesn...

When advocates of baptismal regeneration try to misframe discussions of the doctrine in the manner I discussed in my last post , they someti...

Advocates of baptismal regeneration often frame discussions of the subject with a small handful of Biblical passages that allegedly teach th...