even if you personally bet that they’re true, if you have no basis to believe that they’re true, you are sinning in believing it and spreading it. The catechism is completely clear on that, and it’s rooted very clearly in what the scripture says...
That’s the theory behind a book I recently shepherded calledAs Iron Sharpens Iron: Listening to the Various Voices of Scripture. I invited scholars from a broad array of disciplines to imagine an encounter between two people who might, based on what is recorded by or about them in the sc...
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“We welcome people who are curious, who agree, who disagree,” Pritchard said. “There’s no question our viewpoint on same-sex marriage is likely to be somewhat different than theirs. That’s OK. You don’t have to agree with us to come to a service.” (Oak Leaves) ...
(as all good parents do), and hisEpistle to the Philippiansremains to this day as a pastoral letter against the growing Marcionite heresy that saw the Hebrew scriptures as irrelevant. Though this letter didn’t make it into the canon of scripture (though it was close!), it was still ...
When asked what instructions he had received in 1616, Galileo said, “Lord Cardinal Bellarmino [who had been Chief Theologian of the Holy Office] told me that since Copernicus’s opinion, taken absolutely was contrary to Holy Scripture, it could neither be held or defended, but it could be...
Well, I prayed, as I always do, for heavenly inspiration, meaning I don’t want to write out of my will, but His will. I wait and see where He would lead me in Scripture, what He would say to me through prayer, or how He would show up in some sort of confirmation on how I ...
“When you are wrong, it is better that you agree with your adversary and settle your dispute before you have to go before a judge.”[Luke 12:58a TPT] It removes defensiveness and opens our heart to hearing from God.When we are no longer justifying and defending, God can freely show ...
While I agree that racisim is “alive and well,” the question is what is the “church’s” responsibility toward it? How do you separate an individual christian’s response from the church’s? What is the “christian” response over against a secular, social justice response? etc., etc...
25 So when they did not agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had said one word: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to [a]our fathers, 26 saying, ‘Go to this people and say:“Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand;And seeing you will see,...