Synagogue Rule in First Century Palestine The Greek word, συναγωγή (sunagogi aka synagogue), comes from the idea of gathering.  Although the...

Over at Greenbaggins , Scott asked: TF, when, exactly, do you believe Roman Catholicism began? I answer: If Roman Catholicism is defined b...

I don't know about you, but I wish Jason Stellman had paid more attention to Dr. Robert Godfrey's church history class. Here is som...

The Letter of Mor Yuhannon [John] (d. 649), the Patriarch, Concerning the discussion which he had with the Amir of the Mhaggraye , provides ...

Carl Trueman expresses his frustration with attempts to force Roman apologists to confront history: Thus, as all sides need to face empirica...

Some of my ancestors were idol-worshipers. It's pretty much a sure thing that at least some of your ancestors were too. After all, ido...

Jason Stellman has posted an article in which he says: It seems to me that all this effort on the part of Catholics to prove that the father...

One of the problems facing Roman Catholic apologetics generally is history. History demonstrates that many of Rome's dogmas are not apo...

All four of the gospels refer to Jesus' fellow prisoner, Barabbas, by name. First, I'll present the four accounts and then some com...

The Reformation in the British isles was quite remarkable. In fact, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that other nations and tongues in ...

An anonymous reader asked: Why are the witings of St. Irenaeus now so suddenly important[?] I thought that his relics were sacked by the Cal...

Mr. Paul Hoffer referred to Reformed churches by the rather modernist/pluralist terminology of "faith communities. Mr. Mike Burgess ha...