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Who Wrote Mark?

One of the things the atheists like to destroy is the New Testament. Without anything positive to offer themselves, they feel obliged to de-construct the authority of the New Testament if they can. A favorite way to do this is to try to show that the New Testament is a much edited, late cut and [...]

The Third First Thing

Here is my daily homily for Catholic Online for the third week of Advent. It’s on the “Third First Thing” Life!

Ryan Loves The Vicar

Ryan McLaughlin over at The Back of the World reviews my short story The Vicar of Great Snoring  in some detail and with good insights about the serious themes behind the comical work. Go here to read Ryan’s review, and check out the box in the right sidebar to purchase the first short story in the [...]

The Vicar on Adamites

Do you remember this post in which Rev Lav tells the Vicar about her plans to start a society called The Ancient Order of Adamites? Go here for this romp through Great Snoring from the archives. Go here to buy the first short story in the Adventures of Humphrey Blytherington.

Binz on the Bible

Stephen J Binz is a Bible scholar who bridges the Evangelical-Catholic divide. In hisAncient-Future Bible Study Series he gives us a series of great Bible studies on various characters in the Bible. With studies on Peter, Abraham, Women of the Torah, Women of the Gospels, Paul and David, these studies for either individuals or groups highlight [...]

Christmas, Pagan Romans and Frodo Baggins

This is an article from the archives…worth reading again for those who think the date of Christmas is a carry over from pagan Roman holidays. One of the old chestnusts about Christmas (and I don’t mean the type roasting on the open fire) is the charge brought by old fashioned Protestants and new fashioned atheists [...]

Cool Biblical Detective Work

Go here for an excellent post by Jimmy Akin on the detective work which shows that Mark’s gospel was based on Peter’s experience and preaching.

Stupid Atheists

I thought atheists were supposed to be  smart. Guess not. Here’s an ad American Atheists have paid $25,000.00 to put up in Times Square. What’s hilarious about this ill-thought out campaign is that the atheists keep telling us they are only interested in evidence. They only want the facts ma’am. They’re thinkers. They’re rational. blah [...]

Where Was God in Sandy Hook?

I’ve waited for a few days to comment on the tragedy in Connecticut because it is so easy to jump to conclusions and write about such things without due consideration. The result is usually pious platitudes and insulting cliches. Where was God in Sandy Hook? Just where he always is, in the midst of the [...]

Marcus Steele loves the Vicar!

Go here for Marcus Allen Steele’s review of the first of the Humphrey Blytherington Adventures–a full length short story about the Vicar. You can purchase the story here on Amazon for your Kindle reader, or go here and scroll to the bottom of the post to download a Word file of the story to read [...]