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…
Here in my last post about Calvin Smith’s (of Answers in Genesis) two-part series on the “heretical” BioLogos, I want to focus on the last part of his second article, where he takes specific aim at Peter Enns, Denis Lamoureux, Karl Giberson, Kenton Sparks, and Joseph Bankard. I’ve read quite a bit of Enns and…
Last week, Calvin Smith at Answers in Genesis wrote an online article entitled, “BioLogos: House of Heresy and False Teaching, Part 1,” in which he lambasted the BioLogos organization for spreading heresy and false teaching. Earlier this week, I wrote my own post on Smith’s invective. Well, he has now come out with “Part 2”…
Last week, Calvin Smith at Answers in Genesis started a blog series about BioLogos, the organization started by Francis Collins that, in a nutshell, tries to ease the fears of many Evangelicals regarding evolution by trying to show that the scientific theory of evolution does not conflict with the Bible and the Christian faith. Smith’s…
It has been a week, and I now am getting around to writing my commentary and thoughts to Robert McKenzie’s book, We the Fallen People (which I summarized in Part 1). At the beginning of his book, McKenzie spoke of the need to think critically about core issues involving American democracy if we want to…