From my Facebook page today. Words of David Maher will be in blue, Nick Hardesty’s in green. I put up a meme that stated: “Gun Control” doesn’t mean what you think it means It means only the state will have guns If you think that’s a good idea you need to read a history book [with a picture of a soldier (Nazi?) about to shoot an unarmed, crying female captive] ***** The absence of gun control is a completely unregulated gun... Read more
Bob Robinson is the Executive Director of Reintegrate: a nonprofit organization that equips God’s people to reintegrate the Christian faith with vocation so that they can participate in God’s mission on earth. He’s an ordained pastor (ordained for Gospel Ministry by The Chapel Consortium Churches). In 1996, he earned a Master of Divinity degree with honors from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and in 2018, the Doctor of Ministry degree from Covenant Theological Seminary in “Faith, Vocation, and Culture,” studying under Dr. Donald Guthrie. I am responding to his article in the Faith and Work Patheos... Read more
From a Facebook discussion on my page: 4 January 2014. Words of Dr. Edwin Woodruff Tait (Anglican Church historian then; possibly Catholic by now) will be in blue, Matthew’s in green, Toni Aceto’s in purple, Charles Jones’ in brown, and Martin Bubba Wheaton’s in orange. The original discussion occurred underneath a link to the article, “Is Ecumenism a Heresy?” (Fr. Brian Harrison, Catholic Answers Magazine, 1-1-09). ***** Matthew writes stuff like this on his Facebook page: I don’t think there is such... Read more
[Words of Holly McWilliams will be in blue, those of Mark Wilson in green; Petros BM in purple] *** I have a great deal of respect for traditionalist Lutherans, who are, in my estimation, the most respectable and intellectually cogent Protestant denomination. I say that after years of interaction with all sorts of Protestants (and being an evangelical Protestant myself, from 1977-1990). I’ve enjoyed my dialogues with Lutherans through the years. I disagree with many things, of course, but it... Read more
Essay 41 (my original manuscript, with some differences) from my book, Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical: From Priestly Celibacy to the Rosary: 80 Short Essays Explaining the Biblical Basis of Catholicism (July 2015) ***** In Partu virginity is the belief that Jesus was born miraculously, without the usual physical travail of childbirth. Mary’s virginity was preserved in the biological sense: i.e., the hymen remained intact. Virginity, as classically understood, is not simply the absence of sexual activity (how we use the... Read more
Don’t Put Off What Needs to be Done Now; What is Right to Do Tell your loved ones that you love and appreciate them, and be loving. Also, we all need to stop the petty quarreling and squabbles. Life is too short. This is what we learn from sudden tragic deaths like Kobe Bryant’s; also, of course, that we need to be ready at all times to meet God, for we don’t know when we ourselves will be doing that:... Read more
[book and purchase information] I am critical of Luther where I think he was wrong. What’s wrong with that? Do Catholics not have a right and even a duty to defend Catholic truth claims when they are severely attacked? I don’t “hate” the man or think he was a “bad” man. I admire him in some ways. Some folks insist on blasting my Luther research, largely based on hearsay and reading only critiques without reading my replies to such critiques.... Read more
The following exchange occurred on Mark Shea’s page: a public thread. His words will be in blue. ***** Reader (in the midst of today’s 2 Minute Hate Directed at Me): “Why do Catholics keep talking about Mark Shea?” Because, like it or not, all the combox excommunications by all the fake combox bishops on planet earth do not make me one bit less a Catholic. And that galls the Combox Inquisition. Speaking for myself, I’ve made it crystal-clear many times... Read more
These are my comments (2-3 January 2017) from a long Facebook discussion thread, that was about my article, Showing Graphic Abortion Photos: Justifiable and Necessary (+ Facebook discussion) [12-17-10] ***** Is it permissible and/or helpful to show graphic abortion photos: babies that have been gruesomely torn limb-from-limb or burned; murdered? I say yes. The same people who are dead set against showing photos of aborted children, think nothing of showing pictures of, e.g., a dead refugee child washed ashore, or heartrending images of... Read more
[see book and purchase information] See: “Why Are Catholics So Deficient in Bible-Reading?” (National Catholic Register, 11-22-17). ***** Catholics have written to this blog in the past objecting to my repeated assertion that relatively few of them read the Bible. Well, they read the Bible, they protest, so therefore my claim is incorrect. Argh. But what do they say when Dave Armstrong, one of Catholicism’s most sectarian apologists bemoans the exact same condition, which is regularly confirmed by independent surveys?... Read more
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