I went to afternoon Mass today. I sat one row over from an elderly woman (who I later discovered was a “nun”) who apparently decided that the Novus Ordo was not to her liking. So, instead of saying this, “May the Lord receive the sacrifice from your hands to the praise and glory of His name, for our good and the good of all His Church,” she said this, “May the Lord receive the sacrifice from your hands to the... Read more
The 2004 book I co-edited with William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland, To Everyone An Answer: A Case for the Christian Worldview (InterVarsity Press) is now available on Amazon’s Kindle. You can find it here. Read more
Today is the 100th birthday of our 40th President, Ronald Wilson Reagan. Most people are unaware that in 1983 during his first term President Reagan published an article in the Human Life Review, “Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation.” It was eventually published as a small book a year later with afterwards by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and Malcolm Muggeridge. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the article and subsequent book, in 2004 Human Life Review published a... Read more
That is the title of my most recent column over at The Catholic Thing. Here is how it begins: When I was an Evangelical Protestant thinking about returning to the Catholic Church of my baptism, among Catholic practices I found difficult to accept was the sacrament of penance. I thought that the sacrament took away from Christ’s sufficiency to forgive all our sins, past, present, and future. For I believed that it diminished the scope of Christ’s atonement if I had... Read more
That’s the title of my latest entry over at The Catholic Thing. Here’s how it begins: The Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist is a real stumbling block to some Protestants who are seriously considering Catholicism. It was for me too, until I explored the subject, historically and scripturally. What follows is a summary of my deliberations. Catholicism holds that bread and wine literally become the body and blood of Christ when they are consecrated by the priest celebrating the Mass.... Read more
John Fitzgerald Kennedy – January 20, 1961 Ronald Wilson Reagan – January 20, 1981 Read more
This is truly ghoulish: The bill changes the organ donation program so that a person is presumed to have consented to organ and tissue donation at the time the person applies for or renews a driver’s license or identification card unless the person initials a statement that states that the person does not want to be considered as a possible organ and tissue donor. Lends a whole new meaning to “trafficking in human organs.” The bill is being proposed in Colorado, and the above... Read more
My apologies to readers of Return to Rome. I have been immersed in two writing projects as well as the start of the semester. So, I’ve spent virtually no time blogging or checking this blog. As for the two projects, one is a very large chapter for the book, Journeys of Faith: Evangelicalism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Anglicanism (Zondervan, forthcoming in 2011), edited by Robert L. Plummer (professor, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary). I am writing the chapter on Catholicism. The second... Read more
Found this over at Justin Taylor’s blog, Between Two Worlds. It’s worth watching. Read more
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