The New York Times likes to remind its readers just how smart it really is. Take, for example, its recent decision to release a list of the most looked-up words in its online edition: words like “bildungsroman,” “peripatetic” and “antediluvian” sent thousands of readers running to the dictionary, or in this case, clicking on the… Continue reading Well, I’m Convinced. (The Catholic Church Murdered Europe!)
Author: Joe Heschmeyer
To Be Converted
One of the best blogs on the internet, in my opinion, is Jennifer F.’s blog, Conversion Diary. In one of her most recent posts, she explains how she chose the name for the blog (it’s #3 on the list). Anyways, it’s based on a really great quote from Pope Benedict, so I thought I’d pass… Continue reading To Be Converted
Was the Canon Politically Motivated?
On a different note, a friend asks: Also, some people told me that the Bible is B.S. because at the Council of Nicea, church leaders selected canon for political motives. Also, someone told me that an entire book of the new testament is so inconsistent with the style of the other books that religious scholars… Continue reading Was the Canon Politically Motivated?
Luke 1 and Sola Scriptura: An Intro Explored
Here’s how St. Luke begins his Gospel: 1 Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us,2 just as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning and ministers of the word have handed them down to us,3 I too have decided, after investigating everything accurately anew, to… Continue reading Luke 1 and Sola Scriptura: An Intro Explored
More Notre Dame Drama.
Wow. Good catch, American Papist.
Once Saved, Always Saved, Thrice Around
This is the second part of my answer to a thought-provoking and in-depth comment by DJ AMDG. His initial comment was sparked by a discussion here, and you may want to read pt. 1 of the response before you start here (although you don’t have to). His comments are in red, my responses are in… Continue reading Once Saved, Always Saved, Thrice Around
Pixar Doesn’t Make a Bad Movie
I’m just saying. Up is an awesome movie. And a wonderful antidote to the ADHD-inducing direction animation has gone in the last decade or so. There are just these incredibly long scenes where nothing is said, and beautiful classical music plays, while you watch a couple grow old together. It’s heartwarming (and at times, heart-breaking),… Continue reading Pixar Doesn’t Make a Bad Movie
Once Saved, Always Saved, Twice Around
DJ AMDG had more questions and commentary on my post on OSAS (once saved, always saved), the (usually) Calvinist doctrine that you can’t “lose your salvation.” He’s in red, and my responses are in black: Joe, on Hebrews I don’t think anybody asserts that 3:14 means that. I could be wrong, and perhaps a Catholic… Continue reading Once Saved, Always Saved, Twice Around
Rabbi Waskow on Ends v. Means
On the flip side, the same rabbi I criticized for his crazy abortion double-speak in my last post, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, has a surprisingly lucid and thoroughly convincing argument about the ends v. means debate. On this point, at least, we’re in total agreement, and I was shocked by the tactics he described both of… Continue reading Rabbi Waskow on Ends v. Means
More Crazy Abortion Double-Speak
The Chicago Tribune “reports” in an online op-ed which boldly asks, “Is murder inevitable consequence of abortion debate?,” a question which is as thorough with its history (ignoring that the last time an abortionist was killed prior to Tiller, Monica Lewinsky was still a news item), as it is with its grammar (perhaps it should… Continue reading More Crazy Abortion Double-Speak