The Early Church Fathers Series: Clement of Rome (Part 1)
Clement of Rome is considered to be the first Apostolic Father of the Church, or more properly speaking, the first major figure in Christian history after the t...
Category: Church History
Let’s Start a Series on the Early Church Fathers! (Introduction)
Having grown up within Evangelicalism, even though my family went regularly to church and even though I went to a Christian high school, I really knew nothing a...
A Response to a Reader: The Orthodox Church and YECism
A couple of weeks ago, someone sent me a message that he had written a critique of some of my earlier blog posts regarding the issues of theistic evolution, Ada...
“Faith vs. Fact” by Jerry Coyne: An Extended Book Analysis (Part 5): Coyne Takes on Aquinas, Faith, and Tertullian…(and gets everything wrong)
We now come to Part 5 of my analysis of Jerry Coyne’s book, Faith vs. Fact. In this post I will conclude my thoughts on Coyne’s second chapter, entitled, “What’...
MY NEW BOOK IS OUT! (Yes, you need to buy it!)
ANNOUNCEMENT: Today my new book, Christianity and the (R)evolution in Worldviews in Western Culture came out. It is available on Amazon.com. I thought I’d...
The Jewish War Series (Part 20): The Conclusion to the War; The End of John of Gischala and Simon ben-Gioras
On the 20th day of Ab (mid-late August) Titus ordered his army to raise the banks further against the upper city, on the west side of the city over against the ...
The Jewish War Series (Part 19): Neglected Signs of Judgment and Failed Negotiations
The lower city had been largely taken earlier. The Temple Mount was now in Roman hands, and the Temple itself had been burned to the ground. All throughout the ...
The Jewish War Series (Part 18): Titus Destroys the Temple
Every day the zealots, although holed up within the inner court of the Temple, fought off the Roman soldiers who were at the gates and on the banks. Then, on th...
The Jewish War Series (Part 17): The Taking of the Tower of Antonia and Battles in the Temple Precincts
By the first day of Tamuz (mid-July), the stench of death and pestilence filled the city. It was then that the zealots fully came to realize that there was no h...
The Jewish War Series (Part 16): The Famine Within the Walls Grows Worse
Although the Roman siege continued to take its toll on those inside Jerusalem, Titus began to look for ways to hasten its end. And so, he decided to tighten the...