By Luke Lancaster After Christopher Columbus’s revolutionary journey to the Americas, Catholic Spain colonized large swaths of Native...

By Luke Lancaster 1. Catholics did not encourage Scripture reading in the Catholic Middle Ages. This myth is somewhat true and somewhat...

By Luke Lancaster Many Fundamentalist Christians today will denounce a synthesis between theology and philosophy. They think that God’s...

By Luke Lancaster Catholics believe that philosophy and theology can work together hand-in-hand. Philosophy can sometimes assimilate...

By Luke Lancaster People ask for things all the time from God and seemingly nothing will happen. Somebody might pray to get a job he...

By Luke Lancaster Why in the world did God command the Jewish people to offer animal sacrifices? They sound bloody and gross -...

By Luke Lancaster The ancient Jewish people worshipped God from 1400-1000 BC in a portable tent called the “Tabernacle,” as described in...

By Luke Lancaster See this article for a description of the JEDP theory and see this article for the previous two critiques I listed of...

By Luke Lancaster I explained the Documentary Hypothesis or JEDP Theory here, but I wanted to offer some critiques of it. 1. Based...

By Luke Lancaster Intermediate Bible students often learn about something called the Documentary Hypothesis or JEDP theory. This theory...

By Luke Lancaster Some Protestant Christians will deny that the Holy Spirit is infused into a believer when he is water baptized. They...

By Luke Lancaster The Sacrament of confirmation involves a strengthening of the graces received from the prior Sacrament of baptism. A...

By Luke Lancaster What is the purpose of going to the liturgy of Catholicism - the Mass? For many, there isn’t much of a reason to...

By Luke Lancaster Feminists will sometimes attack the depiction of Eve in Genesis 2-3, arguing that it demeans women and portrays them as...

By Luke Lancaster Objection #1. Some will argue today that the sacking of Jerusalem was horrible and stains the entire 1st Crusade. The...

By Luke Lancaster Actual Crusade Start Date Around 60,000 Norman and Frankish warriors left on the Pope’s actual start date of 1096 AD....

By Luke Lancaster Many believe that the Crusades were brutal Christian attacks upon peaceful Muslims minding their own business. They...

By Luke Lancaster Exodus 20:4-5 says clearly, “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in...

By Luke Lancaster Exodus 20:4-5 (cf. Deuteronomy 5:8-10) says, “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of...

By Luke Lancaster Many Protestants argue that Jesus's mother had to have been a sinner like the rest of us. For when Mary visited her...