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April 2018

April 17, 2018

Oh My Gosh, I Was On The Journey Home!

Earlier in March I had the opportunity to fly down to The Coming Home Network...

March 2018

March 14, 2018

Did the Catholic Church Just “Deliver” the Bible?

I was once asked the question by a friend of mine, "Which is more important:...

September 2017

September 27, 2017

The Catholic Church Makes Sense, Because I Don’t Know Best

One of the incredible gifts of becoming a Catholic is knowing that my theology, what...

May 2017

May 02, 2017

Jesus Knows Exactly What You Need

The biblical accounts of Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene and to the Apostle Thomas is endlessly...

April 2017

April 20, 2017

I Am But Dust and Ashes

I tore a hole in my brand new coat. My brand new coat. We are by...

April 13, 2017

How I Learned to Discern to God’s Will (And Also How Not To)

The whole thing---the will of God thing---is tricky. As a teenager, in Evangelical circles,...

March 2017

March 06, 2017

Creflo Dollar Made Me a Catholic

The prosperity Gospel movement is bizarre given that Jesus was unequivocal about wealth but,...

February 2017

February 06, 2017

If the Bible Is Infallible Then So Is the Church

A paradigm shift occurs when the number of compelling facts and figures from a competing...

October 2016

October 07, 2016

Everything I Never Knew About the Rosary

I never thought I'd be the sort of person---the sort of Christian---that prays the Rosary....

May 2016

May 12, 2016

Why I Pray to Dead People (And You Should Too!)

It was a Sunday morning after our ten o'clock service. I was in my final...

March 2016

March 15, 2016

Catholics Got It Wrong (Except for the Bible)

Dale Ahlquist is the brother-in-law of the late, great Larry Norman---arguably one of God's greatest gifts...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Is Protestantism a System Designed to Fail?

If you know anything about my journey towards the Catholic Church you'll know that it had,...

January 17, 2016

What Evangelicals Don’t Know About the Rosary

For all good Evangelicals, myself included, Mary is the ultimate stumbling block on a journey...

September 2015

September 22, 2015

I Am the Pope (And So Are You!)

Over on his critically acclaimed blog Standing on My Head, Anglican priest turned Catholic pastor Dwight...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

If God is Good Why is Christianity So Confusing?

As an Evangelical Protestant, I didn't think about the disparate state of the Christian Church...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

How Catholics and Protestants Read Their Bibles (and Misconceptions Explained!)

As an Evangelical Protestant I had a lot of misconceptions about the Catholic Church. I've...

March 2015

March 14, 2015

Why Creflo Dollar Made Me a Catholic

Prosperity Gospel Mega-Church Pastor Creflo Dollar is in the news again. This time it's for...

February 2015

February 01, 2015

The Lord’s Supper, Literally

Since digging deeper into Catholic theology it's become clear to me that, for those who swear...

January 2015

January 22, 2015

Let’s Talk About Prima Scriptura

I've written a lot about sola scriptura, the Reformation belief that Scripture---the Bible---is the ultimate authority...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

N.T. Wright and the Catholic Church as a Postman

I'm reading N.T. Wright's Scripture and the Authority of God because, up until a few moments...

December 15, 2014

The Catholic as Pharisee

So I sat down to write something entirely different but then I read Pope Francis's...

December 01, 2014

What Sucks About the Catholic Church

Some days I don't want to be a Catholic anymore. Some days I'm not even...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

A System Designed to Fail

If you've been reading my conversion story from the beginning you'll know that my journey...

November 01, 2014

The Bible and Tradition

We saw a production of Fiddler on the Roof at the Stratford Festival a few...