Dutch Calvinists, like most conservative Protestants, sincerely believed that Catholicism was not only heresy but idolatry; that Catholics worshipped the Church, the Pope, Mary, saints, images, and who knows what else; that the Church had added some inane “traditions of men” to the Word of God, traditions and doctrines that obviously contradicted it (how could [...]
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Peter Kreeft’s Spiritual Journey
Posted in Church/Theology on December 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Charles Williams on “God Is Love”
Posted in Church/Theology, God, Love on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The famous saying ‘God is love’, it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the ‘otherness’ and terror of God. Charles Williams
“The Grace of God or Hamsters on a Wheel?”
Posted in Church/Theology on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The late Michael Spencer, a.k.a. the Internet Monk, writes on witnessing and “Wretched Urgency.”
Calling for a Truce in the Culture Wars
Posted in Church/Theology, Science on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Rachel Held Evans, author of Evolving in Monkey Town, has written a thought-provoking response to Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis. All I am asking is that he honor this common bond and join me in making peace, in acknowledging that there is enough room in Christianity for both of us and that we can [...]
Champagne for Breakfast!
Posted in Church/Theology, Life on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
But Easter week itself ought not to be the time when all the clergy sigh with relief and go on holiday. It ought to be an eight-day festival, with champagne served after morning prayer or even before., with lots of alleluias and extra hymns and spectacular anthems. Is it any wonder people find it hard [...]
