Did the Protestant Bible Exist Before the Reformation?

For a worthy article on this question, see here.

The Three "Reformation Day" Ironies

I wouldn't necessarily choose this name for my blog (please don't be unnecessarily turned off by the name), but the article here is worth considering.

Reformation Sunday 2011: How Would Protestants Know When to Return?

Imagine that the Occupy Wall Street protest continued for years, during which time the community of protesters divided into different factions, each with different beliefs, different demands, and different leaders. But the protests continued for so long that the protesters eventually built makeshift shanties and lived in them, and had children. These children grew up in the protesting communities, and then they too had children, who also grew up in the same communities of protesters, still encamped in the Wall Street district. Over the course of these generations, however, these communities of protesters forgot what it was that they were protesting. They even forgot that they were protesting. Life in the shanties in Wall Street was what these subsequent generations had always known. They did not even know that they had inherited a protesting way of life, separated from the rest of society. When asked by a reporter what Wall Street would have to change in order to get them to return home, they looked at him confusedly, and responded, “We are home; this is home.” They no longer had any intention to ‘return to society’ upon achieving some political or economic reform. For them, camping out on Wall Street was life as normal, and those with whom they had grown up camping simply were their society.

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What Therefore God Has Joined Together: Divorce and the Sacrament of Marriage

There are some ancient Christian doctrines that only the Catholic Church has retained. One such doctrine is her teaching on contraception, which was the unanimous teaching of the Church Fathers, and which all Christians shared for nineteen centuries until the Lambeth Conference of 1930. At that conference the Anglican Church decided to permit the use of contraceptives, and were soon followed by all other Protestant denominations. Another such doctrine is the Catholic Church’s teaching concerning the indissolubility of marriage, and thus the impossibility of remarriage while the spouse lives.

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Evolution: Fact or Belief?

Is the Theory of Evolution a scientific fact or a mere belief? This is the only question this documentary seeks to answer. Five world top scientific minds give their answer on Evolution. A ground breaking video sold all around the world, award winning international documentary, now available for all to see (WARNING: "now available for all to see" does not mean this was a recent production, as you will see if you watch it). To view, click here.

The Two Brothers; or, Why are you a Protestant? Part 1

The following is the first of a four part story written by Orestes Brownson about two Protestant brothers. Both brothers were set to follow in the steps of their father who was a Protestant minister. In fact, they both began with great determination to pursue this end by enrolling in seminary to prepare for their happy lives in pastoral ministry. After the untimely death of their mother, however, and due largely to the last words she spoke to her eldest son on her deathbed, he begins a search for truth that changes his relationship with both his brother and father, and the path his life would take from that point on. Click here to access the first of four parts to this interesting story.

Some Quotes from St Francis of Assisi

On the day when the gift of St Francis' life is remembered by the Church, I thought I would take a break from our ongoing post themes and offer a few quotes from this man of simple, yet profound holiness and faith.


"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle."

"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words."

"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."

"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love,

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

to be consoled as to console,

to be understood as to understand,

to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."

"The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today."

"A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"He who works with his hands is a laborer.

He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist."

"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt."