My conversion to Catholicism was marked by many small, imperceptible movements of the Holy Spirit, as is the case for all conversions, but there are some big moments and realizations that help me ...
One of the distinctive Protestant principles is expressed in the slogan sola scriptura, which is Latin for “by Scripture only.” The idea is that every teaching on faith or morals must be directly or ...
Editor’s note: 2017 is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Once a month, I'll look at different aspects of the movement. If there is a single phrase to sum up the Protestant ...
Historian Mark Noll helps unravel the uses and misuses of ‘the Bible alone.’ It’s been a hallmark of Protestantism for 500 years, but what do we mean when we base our faith on “the Bible alone”? Is it ...
Today we continue our look at a set of doctrinal truths which, during the Protestant Reformation, came to be known as “The Five Solas.” These five biblical truths, though they were not systematically ...
Herewith is my last installment on why I believe the church is culpable for our cultural corruption and my top ten raucous remedies to help the church with its mad cow disease. My recommendations are: ...
Progressive rock artist Neal Morse stirs some controversy between his unorthodox view of the Trinity and a Reformation themed concept album that swipes at Catholic Church history. Morse I really ...
I have recently—and on a few other occasions—written about the differences between the Protestant approach to authority and the Orthodox. For Protestants, the final authority or rule is the Bible—a ...
Herewith is my last installment on why I believe the church is culpable for our cultural corruption and my top ten raucous remedies to help the church with its mad cow disease. My recommendations are: ...
Austen Ivereigh has done a great service by getting beneath the tabloid headlines about gay bishops and same-sex marriage to point out that the underlying difference in the Anglican Communion, as ...