Here is an article I wrote for our most recent parish bulletin: I’m sitting in a patient room at Winter Park Memorial hospital, next to my sleeping wife, just a few hours away from delivering our second child. When we found out that we were pregnant, and began considering where to give birth, we had …
As I previously anticipated, Pope Benedict XVI has just released a major document on Scripture, Verbum Domini (The Word of the Lord). This letter comes on the heels of the recent Synod on the Bible. Eric Sammons has some good background on this letter and its place in the Church’s past pronouncements on Scripture. You …
During my last year of college back in 2008, I was asked to preach one Sunday at the Methodist campus ministry I was part of, the FSU Wesley Foundation. The broad theme for the semester was “Joy”, but besides that my pastor told me that I could choose any topic to preach on. I decided …
My friend Devin Rose made this hilarious video of two guys, one a Protestant and one a Catholic, discussing the theological concept of “justification”. Their tones and mannerisms are hilarious:
Over at the Divine Life blog, Eric Sammons recently probed a typical position that many modern Biblical scholars take. Many academics hold the historical Jesus, the one who walked the Earth 2,000 years ago, distinct from the Jesus of Christianity and the Early Church. Strong efforts have been made to divorce these two characters of …
