You can listen to her story here at Called to Communion. She is interviewed by Tom Riello. Annie is a Catholic convert from the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Her father is on the board of Westminster Theological Seminary. Read more
You can listen to her story here at Called to Communion. She is interviewed by Tom Riello. Annie is a Catholic convert from the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Her father is on the board of Westminster Theological Seminary. Read more
That’s according to the Daily Beast. Regardless, the request takes gargantuan…. Read more
George Weigel provides us with yet another example of why most “sophisticated” secularists are theological illiterates. Read it here. Read more
I’m writing from the 62nd annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Atlanta, Georgia. This morning I presented one of the two papers I am slated to deliver at the meeting. The paper, “Doting Thomists: Evangelicals, Thomas Aquinas, and Justification,” was well-received. The room, which fit about 100, was standing room only. I brought 50 copies of the paper, and they were snapped up quickly. What a delight it is to be here with so many of my Evangelical... Read more
I’m preparing to fly out to Atlanta, Georgia to participate in the 62nd annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (17-19 November). You can find the program for the meeting here. I will be delivering two papers at the conference. I will also be participating in a lay conference sponsored by the Evangelical Philosophical Society on November 18-20, 2010 at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia. You can find about that here. Here’s a little something about the two... Read more
St. Joseph’s Communications has just released the CD, “Confessions of An Evangelical Catholic.” It is an interview of me conducted by Terry Barber and Joshua Betancourt. Joshua is the co-author with Norman L. Geisler of Is Rome the True Church?, a book in which he and Geisler critique a variety of Catholic beliefs about ecclesiology and papal authority. Several months after the release of the book, Joshua announced his intention to seek full communion with the Catholic Church. You can... Read more
That is the title of my most recent column at The Catholic Thing. Here’s how it begins: Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won’t be nothing Nothing you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it has overturned the order of the soul…. – Leonard Cohen (“The Future,” 1992) These amazing lyrics by Leonard Cohen came to mind after my friend, Lydia McGrew, brought to my attention a court... Read more
I am honored to be delivering the 2010 annual faith and culture lecture tomorrow night at The Cambridge School in Dallas, Texas. You can read more about it here. My lecture is entitled “Faith, Reason and the Christian Citizen.” If you are in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, please consider attending. There will be Q & A session and reception following the lecture. Read more
Today, October 31, is Reformation Day, a day on which many Protestants commemorate Martin Luther’s nailing of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral on October 31, 1517. Writes Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft, “The Protestant Reformation began when a Catholic monk rediscovered a Catholic doctrine in a Catholic book. The monk, of course, was Luther; the doctrine was justification by faith; and the book was the Bible.” Continue reading…. Read more
This is deeply troubling, since the purpose of inserting “under God” in the Pledge was to distinguish America’s belief that human rights and dignity have their source in God with the Soviet belief in philosophical materialism and that it is the State that exclusively imparts to us our rights. (more…) Read more
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