Andrew Voigt’s recent article at The Gospel Coalition, Roman Catholic Apologetics Is Surging Online. Intended Audience? Protestants, reads like a Protestant reconnaissance report, alarmed at the rising tide of Catholics who (gasp!) actually defend their faith online. According to Voigt, Catholic apologetics is growing, influential, and—perhaps worst of all—persuasive. But instead of wrestling with why […]
VIDEO: Big Problems with Sola Scriptura | A Drive-Time Monologue
This seemed like a good way to get content out the door vs. trying to do an entire video production with edits, etc. The genre here is a “Drive Time Monologue,” but I invite the listener to imagine a scenario in which we are driving together. Perhaps my passenger is a Catholic who wants to […]
35 Beliefs that Would Have Kept Me From Becoming Catholic (That the Catholic Church Doesn’t Teach!)
If the past three years of my life have been anything, they have been an almost daily exercise of frequently using the phrases “but the Catholic Church doesn’t teach that,” and “I wouldn’t have become Catholic if that is what the Catholic Church taught!” That’s because I have found that one has to constantly confront […]
Why theological insight is often gained in hindsight
Some years ago, while listening to a Bible teacher named Malcolm Smith in a recorded teaching about Jesus, he said something that has stuck with me, and I myself have adopted it as something that I regularly say to others. He said, “It takes a long time to think about Jesus.” At this stage of […]