So many insults directed at the Christian Tradition…
…don’t offend my faith, but my elementary knowledge of history and common sense. Take this: In response, I close my eyes, pinch the bridge of my nose, and mumble, “And
…don’t offend my faith, but my elementary knowledge of history and common sense. Take this: In response, I close my eyes, pinch the bridge of my nose, and mumble, “And
Yesterday, as I was banging on about Universes of Discourse, I tossed out the phrase “chronological snobbery”. It refers to the habit (always a danger in any age, but positively
Today, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their interesting Professional Historians’ look at the person of Jesus. I don’t buy all of their conclusions, of course, but I think they
Today and tomorrow, I’m posting a couple of podcasts of “The Rest is History” a really terrific podcast series by historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, regarding the historical roots
One of my favorite books is C.S. Lewis’ THE GREAT DIVORCE. It plays with the idea of the damned being perfectly free, if they like, to go to Heaven and
It’s called HERESY DISGUISED AS TRADITION, and is a look at the newest and strangest (and deadliest) form of Protestantism in the Church today: Reactionary Catholics who hate the Pope,
Recently, on the Book of Face, somebody was asking for people’s favorite books on prayer. Mine is Simon Tugwell’s PRAYER IN PRACTICE, which immediately won my heart with the anxiety-relieving
Steve gives us a typically insightful look at a filmmaker who really tries to take seriously–and conduct us into the minds of–pre-modern people who really and genuinely did not look
If you have not read it, I highly recommend you get a copy. He’s a very snappy writer of history, an atheist, and convinced that Christianity is the most revolutionary
…who runs a website called “History for Atheists” wherein he struggles to cut through the jungle of simple-minded claptrap about the Christian tradition that is the bread-and-butter of Internet Atheism.
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