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is T1 a Catholic? all around discouraging. 1) sigh. i’ve never been Catholic. after all these years .. :-| The videos i posted were opinions of devout Catholics. The question has come up about whether Catholics question the pope. It seems they do. 2) i believe all popes are targeted for politics, a...

I really like Bart Ehrman, and grieve for his loss of faith. I listened to him several years ago and decided that he is very convincing and I don't need that type of input. I understand what you mean so I tend to only listen to him when it’s with someone of equal intellect and/or training that’s pu...

I really like Bart Ehrman, and grieve for his loss of faith.

An interesting conversation between Ross Douthat and former believer, Bart Ehrman:

temporal1 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2026 3:28 pm

JohnH wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2026 3:07 pm

temporal1 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2026 11:02 pm max and falco aren’t present to guide.

one of them may be more present than you realise

John has a theory.

How awful, we will keep your family in our prayers. Thank you for letting us know here. Robert was a great administrator here and he will be dearly missed.

Part of that "irrelevance" starts when churches and Christians think they need to be "bear witness" or "speak truth to power", etc., to the government in a broad manner. It is a very short trip from there to actually participating in attempting to reform government. Th...

I agree with Barnhart that Mainline Protestantism has become irrelevant though I see John’s point that much of the mainline spirit lives on in modern, secular liberalism. I commend Jody Bottum’s stellar piece in First Things from back in 2008, The Death of Protestant America : Which makes it all the...

2. The Catholics via Aquinas, use Aristotle and thus see reality embedded in material things. The material is not something to be shed or eschewed but reformed via virtuous practice. Thus enters the state to help proscribe* right and virtuous living. The Church and the State work together to reform...

I don't have a lot of time right now to discuss but I read this essay by Joshua Mitchell and think it might be able to contribute to the convo but at a step removed. Mitchell is an evangelical who teaches at Georgetown, a Catholic university. His basic thesis is thus: Various Christian traditions, s...