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The differences between evangelicals and Catholics on the question of ultimate authority really isn’t all that different, argues Kevin DeYoung, since tradition still requires interpretation : One of the common Catholic objections to the Protestant doctrine of sola . . . . Continue Reading »

First Things presents its first video, The Creed: What Christians Profess, and Why It Ought to Matter . Produced by actor, director, and writer, Tim Kelleher, The Creed is a remarkable film about why the radical claims made in the Nicene Creed are so important to all of us. Whether you are a . . . . Continue Reading »

Alister McGrath explains the concept of faith for the New Atheists: As William James pointed out many years ago, religious faith is basically “faith in the existence of an unseen order of some kind in which the riddles of the natural order may be found and explained.” Faith is based on . . . . Continue Reading »

While you might have a hard time finding a seat at Sunday Mass, there is plenty of pew space in the mainline denominations : The Roman Catholic Church is growing, but most mainline and evangelical Protestant churches are losing members, according to the 2011 Yearbook of American & Canadian . . . . Continue Reading »

“Why do evangelicals love the Jews?” For years I’ve heard that question asked in various forms, albeit almost always indirectly. Sometimes it comes from Christians skeptical of Zionism; other times from appreciative but suspicious Jews. The underlying subtext, though, is almost always the same … Continue Reading »

Were the deceptions by agents of Live Action in exposing Planned Parenthood wrong or right? That’s a question that Christopher Tollefsen and Christopher Kaczor have been discussing the past few days on at Public Discourse (see here , here , and here ). Today, Robert George weighs in on the . . . . Continue Reading »

Today’s “On The Square” essay by Elizabeth Scalia explores what happens when religious and idealogical movements become insecure : Stories like this—where we find Muslims reacting to Christian evangelism with fire and rage— always remind me of the Office of the Dead, which . . . . Continue Reading »

Why didn’t Generation X leave the church while the Millennials are leaving in droves? Richard Beck thinks it has something to do with social media tools : The difference between Generations X and Y isn’t in their views of the church. It’s about those cellphones. It’s about . . . . Continue Reading »

John Willson on why, in the 1950s, everybody watched Bishop Sheen : . . . the most popular person on the most visible proof of prosperity, television, was a Catholic Bishop. America’s Bishop, his biographer Thomas Reeves calls him. Fulton J. Sheen did “Life Is Worth Living” on the Du . . . . Continue Reading »

An eleven-year-old at Salem Lutheran Church in Tomball, Texas explains where Jesus can be found in all sixty-six books of the Bible. He’s such an impressive preacher he could be mistaken for a Baptist. (Via: Kevin Staley-Joyce) . . . . Continue Reading »