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We’ve moved! My new WordPress site
Marc Chagall. Joseph, A Shepherd. 1931. How now, Brown Cow? Sorry I’ve been silent for a few weeks. I’m still around. And one of the major projects I’ve been working on has been transferring my blog...
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A life update
But it does look yummy, doesn’t it? (From a review of Kennedy’s B.B.Q. in Canton, Ohio, by Michael Stern, on RoadFood.com.) No, I haven’t abandoned my blog. I just have way too much on my plate. I’m...
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“Saying Jesus’s Name Wrong”: A Fallacy of “Hebrew Roots”
Andrea Mantegna, Ecce Homo (1502) (WikiArt). One of the most common and insistent tropes of the “Hebrew Roots” movement is the claim that the majority of Christians in the world are “saying Jesus’s...
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The Sunday Obligation: “Missing Mass is a Mortal Sin”?
Justus van Gent, Institution of the Eucharist (c. 1474) A common charge against the Catholic Church that I’ve heard from a number of opponents is against the fact that the Church obligates her children...
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Were the churches of the New Testament independent of one another?
The beginning of a series: “How do I know the Catholic Church is the Church Jesus founded?” Source: The Restless Pilgrim It is a commonplace of Catholic apologetics that we claim that “the Catholic...
View ArticleWhy the Catholic Understanding of Justification Is Not “Faith Plus Works”
In response to a question on Facebook, after I shared this article from Catholic Answers. I might say that “faith plus works” can be a valid but misleading generalization — but not “grace plus works”...
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The New Testament Church: One Body in Christ
Albrecht Dürer, Adoration of the Holy Trinity (1511) Last time, we examined how, in the usage of the New Testament authors, especially Paul and Luke, the churches of Christ were often referred to in...
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I went to Mass and didn’t like it: Faltering steps in my journey to the Church
The other day was the three-year anniversary of my entering the Church. And as I’ve been helping dear ones through their own conversions this year, it occurs to me that once again, I’ve left my own...
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The signposts converge
The next chapter in my conversion story, and the continuation of my post about the first time I went to Mass in Oxford, Mississippi. All roads lead to Rome. [Source] So I checked the Catholic Church in...
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A Tradition of Authority: Why Catholic Arguments Were Convincing to Me, and...
This is a bit heavier than my usual posts here, but it answers an important question that Protestant apologists have posed to me and other Catholic converts: Was I only drawn to the Catholic Church...
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How Both New Testament “Presbyters” and Old Testament “Cohenim” Became...
Marc Chagall, Aaron and the Seven-Branched Candlestick from Exodus (1966). A recent commenter complained, as Protestants often do, that there is “no biblical basis” for the New Testament priesthood. My...
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Ministers of the New Covenant: Why Christian Ministers Are Priests
Why do Catholics call their ministers priests? Is this concept of priests as ministers of the New Covenant of Christ valid and scripturally sound? In my last post, I demonstrated that the English word...
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Re-presenting the Sacrifice of Christ: The Fundamental Doctrines of the...
The sacrifice of Melchizedek. Mosaic from the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. We have examined how the word “priest” in English is actually a translation of the New Testament Greek word πρεσβύτερος...
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