This morning I recounted to my wife an occasion about twelve years ago when I was preaching from Luke 8:19-21 where the text says, “Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd.” After reading this text to the congregation, I looked up with a […]
In my previous post, I laid out nine ideas that were central to my understanding of Catholic Marian theology when I first began my journey of reconciliation with the Roman Catholic Church. Some of them are, indeed, what is taught by the Catholic Church, some of them are mischaracterizations put forth by protesting Christians or poorly-discipled […]
When I explain to people that before I could reconcile with the Roman Catholic Church I had to sort through my own theological issues with Catholicism, they always want to know what the specific issues were. In my case, I had a list of 14 issues. It won’t surprise many readers to know (and they’ll […]