In this fourth installment of my series on the early Church Fathers, I want to pause and share some reflections regarding the first three Fathers I have looked at: Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, and Polycarp of Smyrna. These three are commonly referred to as the “Apostolic Fathers” because, although being the earliest of…
Over the past month, I’ve been surprisingly busy. I occasionally get asked to do an interview regarding my book Heresy of Ham, but over this past month, I’ve had three different requests! Here is #3 for your view pleasure. The guy who does this “Paulogia” YouTube channel is a former Christian turned atheist, but he…
A couple of weeks ago, Zach Miller interviewed me for his YouTube channel to talk about what I feel is the proper way to read and interpret Genesis 1-11. It was a fun interview. If you’d like to take a look, here is the link!
Back in 2003, when I took a job at a small Christian high school in Arkansas, I was introduced to the concept of “teaching Biblical Worldview.” Now, I was hired at that time mostly to teach English, but I was also asked to teach a class of Senior Worldview, which essentially sort of a Western…
In this third installment of my blog post series on the early Church Fathers, I am going to look at Polycarp of Smyrna. Along with Clement of Rome and Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp was among the earliest Church Fathers after the age of the actual apostles. He was born in AD 69, right around the…
Shortly after the Jerusalem council of AD 49, the Apostle Peter relocated to Antioch to help lead the Church there. When Peter left for Rome, presumably at some point during the mid-50s, a man name Evodius became the new leader of the Church in Antioch. Then, in AD 70, the same year that Titus’ legions…
I recently sat down with John Griffin for a discussion about the recent attack on BioLogos from Answers in Genesis, where AiG calls BioLogos a “house of heresy” all because it doesn’t embrace YECism. It’s a short 25-minute video. Enjoy!
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 time of the apostles themselves. No one is sure about when he was born, but it is believed he was born around AD 35 in Rome and eventually…
This post is the start of something different I will occasionally do on my blog. Having grown up in the Evangelical world of the 70s-80s, I was deeply influenced by some truly great Christian music that came out of that time. And so, I thought I wanted to share that music that I love so…
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 about Church History. Sure, I knew the names of Martin Luther, John Calvin, maybe Saint Augustine—but I didn’t really know anything about them. And, quite obviously, beyond those…