The first half of my new book Immortal Combat-Confronting the Heart of Darkness explores what we mean by "the Sin of the World." It's not merely the naughty things you've done. It's a deeper fault..kind of like the San Andreas fault compared to a crack in your sidewalk. Like the San Andreas the crack in humanity it goes [...]
It's pretty clear in the gospel isn't it? Jesus says, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me." This sounds clear: "Jesus is the only way to God." When you combine this with the teaching in the third chapter of John's gospel the message is even [...]
Today is William Shakespeare's birthday, and it's getting to be pretty well accepted that the mysterious man of Avon was actually a Catholic. Joseph Pearce's book, The Quest for Shakespeare is the best of the books exploring the evidence for Shakespeare's Catholicism. It is a web of intriguing evidence from the fact that Shakespeare's mother came [...]
Do you believe in ghosts? C.S.Lewis said he only met one woman who had ever seen a ghost and she said afterwards she didn't believe in ghosts. It illustrates that perceiving is not believing. I read an article not long ago claiming that sightings of ghosts, demons, werewolves, black beasts and monsters of all kinds are higher [...]
Some time ago a friend of mine told me a miracle story. He was driving along the road in the right lane. Two cars were beside him in the left lane. The road was in a suburban area. Ahead on the right he spotted a mother walking a dog coming in the direction facing him. Beside [...]
I'm convinced that I am a little bit insane. ("Only a little bit?" I hear you say) Not only that, I'm really convinced that almost everybody else is. However, let me define my terms. By 'insane' I don't mean bat-shit crazy, eye rolling drooling insane. Instead I mean that we do not have a total grip on reality. [...]
Here's your Valentine's card. Have a heart...the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The devotion to the sacred heart of Jesus is pretty hard for a convert to understand. The imagery is usually sentimental. Too much Catholic kitsch for the tasteful Anglicans and too much Catholic weirdness for the typical Baptist. I once visited the Monastery at Conyers [...]
I can remember soon after I moved to England (and still a convinced Evangelical) hearing a German Catholic refer to Mary as Mutter Gottes. I don’t know German and thought he was calling Mary “Mother Goddess”. I was suitably horrified and not really surprised that this Catholic actually referred to Mary as the Mother Goddess. Only [...]
Todd Starnes comments here on the weirdness that the new Google talkback gadget knows who Allah and Buddha are but draws a blank on Jesus. Some folks across the fruited plain are wondering if their Google Home smart speakers have an aversion to Christianity. A number of users have complained that Google’s popular virtual assistant can [...]
Join me in September to re-trace the steps of the Magi from Petra to Bethlehem and beyond. Go here for full information