Those who speak of “Church discipline” are often primarily concerned with extreme cases thereof, such as the addressal of heresy or disruptive decent. At times in the Church’s history, the responsibility has been egregiously misconstrued to entail all manner of un-Biblical punishments within the supposedly Holy Communion, all the way up to torture and execution….

Do you know God loves you? It doesn’t matter if you believe it; it doesn’t even matter if you believe God exists at all. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believe in Him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16) Not willing that He should…

Heresies are born from misconceptions of God; believing God to be other than He is, heretics follow after something thereby unlike God, an idol constructed of imagination. Such misconceptions in the secular world are often based on arrogant speculation (sometimes idle, oftentimes malicious), which fails to anchor itself to what God has revealed of Himself…

It feels bad to be aware of being wrong; so bad, in fact, that many will do whatever they can to escape the feeling entirely, even going so far as to deceive themselves into believing they are right. From the beginning of time, mankind has tried to defer their shame to others, desperate for the…

Aware as I may be of time’s passage, I tend to either under- or over-estimate its seeming effects. I get tunnel-visioned on the things that have been the same for several years without appreciating the ways in which those very things are slightly different from what they were at first, or I get caught up…

Søren Kierkegaard was a nineteenth-century philosopher who may justifiably be called a Christian, in as much as his life was dedicated to finding understanding of Christ and dispensing that understanding to the world. I do not claim exhaustive or even authoritative awareness of his beliefs, but what I do know of him has indicated to…