Category: Doctrine

People sometimes object to religious belief on the grounds that it’s not empirical—and all knowledge, they insist, comes from experience. I’ve written before at TTC on the premise

There has been a lot of talk in the news lately regarding the Southern Baptist Convention, women in Ministry, and misogynistic attitudes. It seems appropriate to write about

You’ve probably already heard a good sermon or two on the Easter story in the past few days.  I hope you will welcome a little more reflection on

  In my last post, I argued that Christians ought to be nonviolent because of what we believe about Jesus.  That is to say, I made a case

Lorne Greene: best Noah voice ever I doubt whether there is any point of theology that is not illustrated in or learned from a Bible story, or any Bible

When I go on vacation and leave my regular Sunday morning post, if I am in Dallas, I head over to an Episcopal church near downtown. It is

Last week we talked about how faith and reason work together as overlapping ways of knowing. To build on that idea, this week we’ll look at some specific passages from

“Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.” These words of Jesus may suggest that Christianity

I would define a miracle as a divinely-caused suspension of the laws of physics. I believe in the possibility of miracles and in the historicity of some very

In philosophy, knowledge is often defined as true belief. Belief or faith is the conviction that something is true. However, belief is not necessarily true, even if the