A Podcast All About Christianity
Does the Church have a good history or a bad history? The answer is yes. The Church has included some of the worst and some of the best. Thus, John Dickson’s new book, Bullies and Saints, is aptly named. Many of the histories of Christianity are written with either of two aims: to make the … Read More “Bullies and Saints – Review” »
One of the saddest chapters in Canadian history is the horrible experience of residential schools that attempted to eradicate indigenous culture. Not only was their purpose unacceptable, in practice it included terrible cases of abuse and in many cases death. I am talking about this here because this was not just on the government but … Read More “Canadian Residential Schools” »
Quite often, I encounter people on social media who identify as “1689 Baptists.” What does that mean? I’m a pastor of a Baptist church and I can only think of one person in our congregation that might know what it is. It was created in the formative years of the Baptist movement. There were General … Read More “The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith” »
Justin Martyr was an important church father and pioneering Christian apologist. He had the courage to not just write a defence of Christianity but to address it by name to the Roman Emperor. Please consider supporting this podcast through Patreon or by downloading a FREE audiobook with a FREE trial of Audible.
The holy foreskin, or holy prepuce, is exactly what it sounds like: the foreskin of baby Jesus. We know that Jesus, like all Jewish boys, was circumcised. On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived. (Luke … Read More “What is the Holy Foreskin?” »
As a Baptist, I was a little surprised to see Baptists grouped with Unitarians and Quakers in this video. But watching the video, it makes sense. What Ryan Reeves does is to look at the Anabaptists and how that movement affected other groups. Characteristics of Anabaptists found in later groups, even though those groups may … Read More “Unitarians, Baptists, and Quakers” »
I have been doing some research into the idea of the image of God for my interest in Disability Theology. One of the books that I read was God’s Many-Splendored Image by Nonna Verna Harrison. Many scholars who look at this topic come from a biblical or a philosophical perspective. Harrison, who is a patristic … Read More “God’s Many-Splendored Image” »
Papias may be one of the most important church fathers that you have never heard of. Unlike other fathers, we only have short fragments of his works quoted by later authors. Papias was the bishop of Hierapolis in Asia Minor. He was active in the second century, although he was born in the first. Other … Read More “Who Was Papias?” »
At the time I am writing this, we are in the middle of a pandemic and many of our church buildings are closed for worship. Some people are struggling with this because worship needs to take place in a church building. Or does it? Besides the theological reasons, there is also the historical perspective. The … Read More “The Earliest Church Building” »
What language do you think of when you think of the Bible? You may think of the Hebrew or Greek. You may think of English or whatever your native language is. But for many centuries, the Bible was thought of in terms of Latin, specifically the Latin Vulgate. This Bible was translated by Jerome. A … Read More “What is the Latin Vulgate?” »
