Purify Your Bride

These programs tend to be very popular. When done well they can get teens really thinking about sexual morality. That is a good thing. Teens like them as well. They get to sit around and talk about sex for a while. That can be fun. These programs often treat the teens as intelligent humans capable […]

One way to test whether you think like a Catholic is to ask how you react when somebody denies what you think of as an important part of the faith. Take the trinity or the divinity of Christ or the bodily resurrection of Christ or the immorality of abortion or whatever. When somebody disagrees, do […]

One of the things that enters into the discussions of hell is the idea that God must be nice. That when we contemplate eternal damnation it does not fit with our image of God. If hell was the only thing that didn’t fit with such an image of God there might be some validity to […]

There is yet another discussion of the priest sex abuse scandal happening on a few blogs. I remember thinking of it as a non-story when it came out because up here in Canada we had already had some very similar scandals. I assumed they were pretty much same old, same old. Was I wrong. People […]

 Francis Turretin has responded to some earlier comments. Some replies, his words are in italics:
the choice is not between intentional and unintentional misrepresentation: surely anyone who knows Dr. White’s work knows that Dr. White is scrupulously honest. Instead, the option is between correct or unintentionally incorrect;
I guess we have to agree to disagree on that. […]

Jesus gives the Sadducees a bible lesson in Luke 20: 
37But in the account of the bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ 38He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for […]

Time has an article apparently based on on in Christianity Today that look at how Evangelicals attitude towards divorce is changing:
The heated controversy provoked by the story showed how Biblically flexible some Evangelicals can be — especially when God’s word seems at odds not just with modern American behavior, but also with simple human kindness.
What? […]

I was reading yet another critique of an atheist. It seems there is a pattern developing. They embrace evolution as the great answer to the creation question. The trouble is evolution does not explain everything. Sometime what it can’t explain is morality. Sometime it is love. Sometimes it is beauty. The human person has been given […]

I was reading a post by Apolonio Latar about heaven and hell. He talks about Hans Urs von Balthasar’s idea that it is at least possible that nobody is going to hell. The so called ‘weak universlism’ tries to dodge the fact that universal salvation has been condemned by the church. You cannot teach that everyone […]

The odd flip side to the Christian trying to know God’s truth on a matter is the functional atheist who wants to use the lack of certainty to avoid a moral duty. Suppose, for example, you knew for certain that pornography was inherently harmful to everyone involved. Leave aside for the moment haw you […]

One thing protestants have a huge problem with is the large number of Catholics who disagree with essential doctrines of the faith. There are a lot of them out there. If you count those who identify as Catholics but rarely go to mass then a large majority are heretical in their beliefs. This is confusing to protestants. Protestant […]

On that same post was another comment about my post. I do allow comments on my own blog but I guess not everyone wants to do that. I’ll respond anyway. My comments are in purple. His are in green:
My first response was going to be along the lines of “perhaps there is hope that some, if not […]

I just found out there was a discussion about me on Turretinfan’s blog. He made a post about me on Aug 25th (which happens to be my birthday). I replied in the comments but he is moderating them and has not yet allowed my reply to appear. So here it is:
I didn’t catch this earlier […]

With the latest controversy about St Pio’s stigmata I have been thinking about the place of miracles in the business of evangelism. I know in the early church they were big. Jesus said the miracles he did spoke for Him and invited people who could not believe in Him to at least believe the miracles (Jn 10). […]

This kind of thing is good to see. It was rare in the US and sadly even more rare in Canada. That is changing. We are seeing more and more bishops take stands on such matters. The church is getting more orthodox and society is getting less christian. The gap is growing and it is […]