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November 2014

November 04, 2014

What We Can Learn from the Failures of Rome

As I expected, Christianity's cultured despisers (many of them from within) took great offense at...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

In Praise of Empires

Courtney and I are in Rome this week, compliments of Focus Features and A Different...

December 2013

December 25, 2013

The First Christmas Sermon Ever Preached

As a Christmas tradition, I repost this, the first Christmas sermon ever recorded: John “Golden...

November 2013

November 30, 2013

Women Priests in the Early Church?

From Reuters: Proponents of a female priesthood say frescoes in the newly restored Catacombs of...

November 18, 2013

St. Francis: “I Know What the Fox Says”

We're in Assisi, home of St. Francis. Today Courtney and I hiked up the mountain...

November 15, 2013

What Is It about Rome?

Yesterday morning, Courtney and I arrived in Rome for our honeymoon. By my count, this...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

What Heresy Is (A Post for Rachel Held Evans)

Yesterday, I accused C. Michael Patton of holding a heretical view of the Trinity. He...

July 17, 2013

Coming Soon: A Tour of Rome

In May, 2014, I will be leading a tour of Rome. I'm calling the tour, From...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

Does God the Father Suffer?

Fred thinks so, and I agree, in spite of the heresy of Patripassianism: Don’t get...

December 2012

December 25, 2012

Behold a Wondrous Mystery

I am posting this on Christmas Eve. Snow is falling, and I'm listening to the...

December 21, 2012

God Must Have Preferred the Roman Empire [Questions That Haunt]

This week's Question That Haunts comes from Judy: I grew up in the church, though...

December 10, 2012

Is Rob a Christian? [Questions That Haunt]

Rob gave us a great Question that Haunts Christianity that has generated hundreds of comments: Hey Tony....

December 06, 2012

When St. Nicholas Slapped a Heretic

In 325, the Emperor Constantine convened the world's Christian bishops to a conclave in Nicaea,...

December 03, 2012

Best Advent Hymns

In seminary, I took a class from then-provost-now-president Richard Mouw. He began every class with...

September 2012

September 21, 2012

There’s No Conspiracy to Silence the Gnostics [Questions That Haunt]

It's Friday, which means it's time for me to respond to Patience's question in the...

June 2012

June 26, 2012

Bonhoeffer Bends A Lot of Ways

Everyone wants to claim Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Liberals like his political action on behalf of an...

June 25, 2012

Leaving a Denomination with Honor

Jason Stellman recently left the Presbyterian Church in America, a conservative, Reformed denomination that...

June 18, 2012

Jesus in a Spaceship

Why are there images in medieval art that depict Jesus in a spaceship? Ester Inglic-Arkell...

April 2012

April 03, 2012

Reading Gagnon: Two More Prejudices [Scot]

This week, Scot Miller is blogging about Robert Gagnon's book, The Bible and Homosexual Practice:...

January 2012

January 27, 2012

Eckhart and Apologetics

Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century Dominican speculative mystic, is one of my favorite writers. I have...

December 2011

December 30, 2011

The Enduring Relevance of the Didache

For a few years now, I've argued that the long-lost ancient text of the early...

December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas from John Chrysostom

In 386, John "the Golden Tongue" Chrysostom preached the very first Christmas sermon. It's beautiful....

July 2011

July 30, 2011

BREAKING: Video Footage of Luther Calling the Pope the Anti-Christ

Here's a follow-up to yesterday's post:

July 29, 2011

How To Be Anti-Catholic without Being Anti-Catholic

The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) is a denomination to the theological right of the...

July 13, 2011

Homoerotic Churches

There's been a lot of talk so far this year about the church and mixed...

May 2011

May 11, 2011

Are You an Acts 2 Church?

If I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times: some erstwhile young church...

December 2010

December 24, 2010

The First Known Christmas Sermon

...was preached by John Chrysostom, he of the "golden tongue," on Christmas Day, 386. A...

November 2010

November 15, 2010

Stir It Up this Sunday

Over at the lectionary blog that I help curate, TheHardestQuestion.org, I used the video response...

November 08, 2010

Win a Didache DVD!

The Faith and Practice of the Earliest Christians: a DVD Study on the Didache with...

February 2010

February 19, 2010

Pentecostalism and Emergence: Origins

As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, I have been charged by the Society...