Australian scholar John Dickson has had an article posted at The Gospel Coalition in which he deals with the reliability of the New Testament texts as historical documents. I was recently speaking to a highly intelligent woman who asked me about the sources of our knowledge of Jesus. I briefly took her through the Graeco-Roman …
Here’s some background material to my previous post. Note that these posts are not critical of the individuals named but question why it seems fashionable to give them a status as some form of evangelical because some of their writings or beliefs can be viewed sympathetically by evangelicals. Here’s Tim Challies’ post about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, …
It’s always interesting to see how pastors were renumerated in previous generations. Before the cash economy there were some interesting arrangements. Such as this: “East Hampton was originally settled by the best sort of men, and had never been divided in religion. There was only one church in place, over which three successive pastors had …
Turns out that Saint Nicholas, the historic figure upon whom the benign commercialised Santa Claus is based, was reputed to have given ancient heretic Arius a slap or a punch at the Council of Nicea. Arius’ Trinity denial meant that he found a lasting place on St. Nick’s ‘naughty’ list. Read a bit more about …
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