The Map of Roman Empire during the time of Constantine. Below is the icon of Emperor Constantine his mother Empress Helena, venerating the Holy Cross. The standard historical mythology followed by Rodimus et al can be described as follows: The true Church founded by Jesus Christ existed until c. 300...

I first began to come across writings of a mysterious S.R. Cassius in the late 1990s when doing research on a term paper at Harding Graduate School. I was caught off guard by this man's bold and even daring pen. I began amassing a file on him and then discovered later my friend Edward Robinson, now ...

What follows below is a reproduction of David Lipscomb's article "Rebaptism Reviewed." The article is a response to "Brother Chism" who defended rebaptism. This is one of Lipscomb's fullest discussions of the subject. He takes us on a tour of the examples of baptism in the Book of Acts following a t...

It seems that 1835 was, in hindsight, a pivotal year for the Stoned-Campbell Movement. By 1835 the Reformers of Campbell and the Christians of Stone had united. Campbell had been marked through the infamous Beaver Anathema (1829) ... By the mid-1830s the Movement was growing and in search of an iden...

Valentine’s Day is often loved by women and loathed by men, who drop their cash on flowers, jewelry, candy, and cards. Perhaps comic Jay Leno expressed the male dilemma about Valentine’s Day best in one of his monologues: “Today is Valentine's Day—or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!â€...

Divine Liturgy: East and West FATHER GEORGE W. RUTLERIt was in 1054 that the Church began to think in terms of Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox instead of Western and Eastern Christianity. The split was prefigured in the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 as an emperor distinct from the emperor in ...

Where does it end? James A. Harding opined that no man since the time of Christ had understood the design of baptism when he submitted to it. Of course by design Harding meant more than Acts 2.38 ... as our recent post makes clear. All that was biblically required was submissive faith in Jesus as th...

The Cross of Magellan I decided to use the word pilgrimage rather than tour in narrating this visit because this site is sacred for our Catholic Faith. This Cross of Magellan mean much more for Filipino Catholics than the flag planted by Astronaut Neil Armstrong on the surface of the Moon. The plant...

ANSELM OF CANTERBURY (1033–1109)Archbishop of Canterbury; sometimes described as the founder of Scholasticism Born in Aosta (northwest Italy) of noble family, Anselm was educated at the abbey of St. Leger, where the classical curriculum trained him for the clarity of expression later characteristi...

Tagged notes in Facebook are up five times the usual amount due to the popularity of the “25 Random Things” chain letter.  Another blogger then inspired me to do this.  All of these are genuine beliefs of mine, although the things I decided to write here were, in part, inspired by thin...