30 Giorni, the prestigious Italian Catholic monthly, has an interview with Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, in which he makes some very interesting remarks. Here are some excerpts in an NLM translation and w...

A couple of verses that have been used in the anti-baptism argument come from Romans 10. The first is found in Romans 10:9 - “That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” That seems pret...

Dan has responded: http://www.arminianchronicles.com/2009/02/more-on-choice-and-determinism.html “I didn’t say Calvinists define choose as “You can choose X if it’s your strongest desire�.� If you didn’t mean that, then your original objection is stillborn. “I said they avoid the com...

One of our main interpretive principles in the church of Christ is to speak where the Bible speaks and be silent where it is silent. I think that is a wonderful concept to try to attain. I respect our heritage and the overarching respect for scripture that our forefathers have brought to the table. ...

DOMINIC BNONN TENNANT SAID: [Quoting me] 7.But let’s assume it is possible to contact the dead. If the only departed spirits you can reach turn out to be damnéd spirits, then they will not be reliable guides to the true nature of the afterlife. Rather, they will be more like vampires, who try to ...

Abi Southerland on the current popularity of Zombies:I mentioned this puzzle to my better half, who happens to be in the middle of a reread of World War Z. His answer? ... You can have a fascinating story about a single zombie in a world of humans or the last human in a world of zombies. You can do ...

Joel Rosenberg reports that funds are being directed towards the rebuilding of Babylon . Yes, that Babylon, the actual city of Babylon. Saddam Hussein had been very invested in resurrecting Babylon to power and glory, but he's very invested in something else at the present. Nonetheless, the dream ha...

If it was up to me (and it is not), I would not require agreement with one specific detailed end-times view for membership, as some churches do. We were visiting a wonderful church several years back that we were interested in becoming members of. Their people were wonderful, their preaching was exp...

This is a quick multiple choice question that won't take much time. Just curious to know if it matters to you what your church's hermeneutical stance is. So here are the choices: A. No, it doesn't matter to me - I couldn't care less if my church was pre/a/post/or pan Mil. Hermeneutics is a non-essen...

During my sermon preparation, I generally read through commentaries last. It is often a helpful exercise but it can also be frustrating. I never ceased to be amazed at the imaginative lengths some commentators will go to be accepted by their peers rather than useful to the church. Many commentaries ...