What Are the Basic Beliefs of the Eastern Orthodox Churches? A closer look at the theology, worship, practices and beliefs of Eastern Orthodoxy…
What Are Religious Sects and What Do They Teach? Sects do not accept the historic creeds of the Christian church or hold to orthodox theology…
What Is the Religion of Sikhism? Is It a Branch of Islam? Sikhism is found in northwestern India, its adherents are neither Muslim nor Hindu but a little of both…
Who Were St. Patrick and St. Brigid? Are All the Stories about Them True? Though somewhat shrouded in legend, St. Patrick and St. Brigid are important figures in the history of Irish Christianity…
Did Jesus Ever Get Married? There is no theological problem with Jesus being married. The problem is that historically it never happened…
Why Do Some Christians Begin and End Prayers with the Sign of the Cross and Why Is the Sign Made with Three Fingers? Making the sign of the cross dates to the early 2nd century. Believers used it as a source of identification…
Isn’t It True That Doctrine Divides? If So, Shouldn’t We Avoid Doctrinal Disputes? We need to get along, but we must never negotiate away the purity and truth of the Gospel…
How Did We Come To Refer to the Scriptures as the Bible? The Bible, as the name of the Jewish-Christian sacred writings as a whole, is actually a comparatively new term…
What Does It Mean That Jesus Christ Is the Logos? In Christian theology, the Logos or the Word is the name given to the pre-existent Christ…
Ask Augustine: Do You Think the Most Dangerous Sermon in America Was Jonathan Edwards’ Sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?” Edwards’ sermon was not dangerous. The most dangerous sermons are ones that define Christianity apart from Scripture…