Would religious thinkers in times before the Scientific Revolution ever have considered accepting the word of scientists over a plain reading of the Bible? Yes, they would have. And, in fact, they did. St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and John Calvin all took the words of astronomers over a plain
Near the beginning of Lent each year, it is not uncommon for parishes to print in their bulletins the required penances for the season. Catholics are required to fast and abstain during Lent. By fasting, we mean that we are allowed up to one full meal, and two smaller meals
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By Steve Beard — Richard Griffin, a former member of the royal security detail to Queen Elizabeth II, tells a delightful story about walking with the monarch near her beloved Balmoral Castle in Scotland and meeting two American tourists. “It was clear from the moment we first stopped that they
23Thus it was necessary for the sketches of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves need better sacrifices than these. 24For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven
Subscribe Now Faith is a Verb Sermon Notes | Episode 11 This episode features Brandon Owen, Campus and Teaching Pastor at The Church at Harpeth Heights. With him joins Darrel Girardier and Amber Speigner from our Communications staff. Brandon talks about his upbringing, family, and the current sermon series
Nine Challenges to Church Planting Ed Stetzer identifies 9 challenges that could hinder the forward advance of church planting. Does education ‘cure’ people of faith? The data says noDespite a long-standing biased assumption among many that the uneducated cling to religion, studies show people with higher degrees are most likely
For centuries since antiquity, many an intermediate Latin student’s experience with Latin prose began with the same sentence: “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres” [Gaul as a whole is divided into three parts]. This matter-of-fact opening of Julius Caesar’s Commentarii de Bello Gallico, documenting his nearly-decade-long campaigns in Gaul