In a previous post, Did the Apostle Paul Use Profanity?, I debunked the claim that ÏÎșÏÎČαλα (skubala, rubbish or waste), a word used by Paul in...
The book of Daniel is a key document for the Christian faith. It has significant prophecies about the future. Jesus Christ and the writers of the New Testament referred to it often.
âCuando llegaron a Capernaum, vinieron a Pedro los que cobraban las dos dracmas, y le dijeron: ÂżVuestro Maestro no paga las dos dracmas? El dijo:...
About half the world is made up of women. Books such as Half the Sky (Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn) and Half the Church (Carolyn Custis James) highlight how important it is for the Evangelical church to consider God vision both locally and globally for women. In the light of the Gospel, the church during the Reformation also wrestled with women place, in the church, marriage, and society. While the Protestant Reformers did not set out to define women roles, as they fleshed out their theological convictions of sola Scriptura and the priesthood of all believers, they were faced with addressing the question of how women are to participate in the church and the world as both receivers and conveyors of the Gospel. Did the Reformersâ responses result in âconstrainingâ women by moving their ministry from the convent to the home (as Jane Dempsey Douglass argues), or did it provide them with ânew dignityâ (as Stephen Nichols suggests)? The answer to that question is complicated ...
The 16th century church was in dire need of a Reformation. What about today, a half millennium later? Is the 21st century church due for another Reformation, a Re-Reformation? Professor Williams shares his thoughts ...
Imagine my double-take when I was confronted with this assessment of our comparative religions by an Orthodox believer several years ago back in Ukraine: âMark, you Protestants follow a religion of professors, whereas we Orthodox ⊠the religion of monks" ...