https://medium.com/@MatthewSchultz/why-stay-protestant-435b5e1006a0 A very good overview of the issues that touches on other areas in life...

Carl Trueman explains the need for a "thoughtful, learned Protestant response" to post Vatican II Roman Catholicism, and why Evang...

I recently listened to a twenty minute lecture by Carl Trueman titled "What Was Luther Doing on Reformation Sunday?" The lecture ...

While searching the library for another title, I came across The Essential Pope Benedict XVI: His Central Writings and Speeches . (It's...

One of the benefits of removing television and video games from daily life is that it affords ample time to pursue more meaningful activitie...

The Catholic Encyclopedia relates the duties of lay Catholics as concerns matters of doctrine: As to doctrine The body of the faithful is s...

In his nuanced exposition of the teaching authority of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Dulles, Professor at Fordham University and Professor E...

We're often told that sola Scriptura is a "blueprint for anarchy." Yet here John Frame utilizes the sola Scriptura principl...

Donald Prudlo writes on the variance within post-Trent Catholic Scriptural interpretation, using Matthew 16:18 as a primary example: The cre...

David Meyer, someone in process of converting from the PCA to the Roman Catholic denomination, made some comments in a recent thread : My Re...

I'm continuing a discussion from a previous thread with Nick: This also touches upon the notion of hierarchy, which is just as decisive...

From Alister McGrath's The Genesis of Doctrine: A Study in the Foundation of Doctrinal Criticism : Although it is often suggested that t...

Abstract It is often asserted that sola Scriptura devolves into rank individualism. Once the right to judge Church tradition by Scripture ...

Contrary to a modern mindset of some Evangelical Protestants, who change churches as one would change outfits to fit the caprice of fashion ...

John Bugay has posted on Hermas and the structure of the early Roman church before . I don't have anything original to add to that dis...

Here's a different, non- Euro-centric approach to a common Roman Catholic historical objection to Protestantism 1 : The result is that w...

"For my part, I should not believe the gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church." 1 Many readers of this blo...

Whitaker comes to the defense of four arguments from Calvin, which Stapleton attempts to refute, the first of which is (in the words of Calv...

"C.S. Lewis once quipped that the more medieval he became in his outlook, the farther from Roman Catholicism he seemed to grow." D...

I've decided to close comments on more (but not all) of my posts. I do not have the desire to wade through the usual exchanges that pil...