World Vision for the Church in Crisis Good News Archive: What follows is condensed from a historic address by Dr. E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973) to the 1970 Good News Convocation in Dallas. As Christians we have an Eternal Person and an unshakeable Kingdom – the essence of reality and our
Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows. The Northern Hemisphere’s summer solstice fell on Wednesday of this week, and summer officially began on that day. This Sunday is the first Sunday of the summer. If you are homebound or on the road or you cannot attend a local church for any
Auschwitz was hell, a nightmare of agony, grief, and despair. Except in the maternity ward. There, as the lice bit and the patients shivered and the rats skittered, there was—astonishingly—peace. There were painless births and healthy babies and mothers holding their little ones as the midwife that they all called
1. The question “Does doctrine develop?” has caused the felling of many trees over the past two centuries. The question has become a vital one for modern Catholic thinkers for a variety of reasons. First, polemical conflict following the reformation of the sixteenth century, during which the Church was charged
Facing Your Jericho By Stephen A. Seamands Jericho is staring Joshua in the face, with its imposing, impenetrable walls towering over him. This was a fortified city if there ever was one, armed with all the sophisticated weaponry of that day. It was in lockdown because they knew the Israelites
How Christians Can Celebrate Juneteenth Juneteenth is an occasion to celebrate African American heritage and culture, not unlike Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Black History Month. 5 Facts About Juneteenth As Christians, we desire freedom for everyone, as this is the mission of Christ. And Juneteenth is an opportunity
There are barriers to conversion. Of special interest to Pascal among them is the thought that the truth of Christianity needs to be proved by argument before it can be accepted, and before the things that Christians ordinarily do can be done. Pascal is interested in this because of the audience for whom
Blaise Pascal wrote: “How I hate these stupidities: of not believing in the Eucharist, etc. If the Gospel is true, if Jesus Christ is God, where is the difficulty?” (Pensées §199). Pascal’s point was that if one accepts the rather incredible premise that there is a God who loves the