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Catholics are now trying to link the problem of child-molesting priests to same-sex attraction. Don’t let them.
The Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report is an 800-page study of the systemic rape and molestation of children on an industrial scale […]
Catholic Church, Catholicism, child molestation, homosexuality, pedophiliaAre Gay People More Likely to be Pedophiles?
Christians have long associated homosexuality with pedophilia. In an article titled “Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation,” Gregory Herek (Professor of […]
homosexuality, pedophilia, prejudiceDoes the systemic sexual abuse among Catholic clergy undermine the Catholic Church itself?
Yesterday, a Pennsylvania grand jury released a report chronicling the crimes of more than three hundred priests throughout Pennsylvania, predators […]
abuse, Catholic Church, ecclesiology, pastoral theology, problem of evilEncountering Mystery at the Summer Waterslide
This article is equal parts summer nostalgia and rumination on mystery. But let’s start with the summer nostalgia. Summer Nostalgia […]
epistemic humility, epistemology, mystery, rationality, theologyDo you need to know how the internal witness of the Holy Spirit works in order to receive an internal witness of the Holy Spirit?
Many Christians claim to form justified beliefs based on a spiritual experience (e.g. the internal witness of the Holy Spirit) […]
epistemology, religious belief, religious epistemology, sensus divinitatisIf you reject evolution, should you accept a flat earth?
Yesterday, I posted the following tweet: “I’ll agree that ‘evolution is only a theory’ if you’ll agree that it is […]
earth science, flat-earth, hermeneutics, science, theology, young earth creationismBeing a former Christian doesn’t ensure you’re an informed and fair critic of Christianity
Yesterday I posted the following tweet: A note to my atheist friends: the fact that you grew up attending a […]
apologetics, atheism, theismCan an evangelical believe this?
Yesterday, I posted several Twitter surveys, polling people on the question of whether an evangelical can affirm a particular position […]
evangelicalismUngatz: How a Lucky atheist faces his mortality
“It’s all going to go away … into blackness, the void.” “And what do you do with that?” “What do we do […]
atheism, Harry Dean Stanton, Lucky, mortality, movie review, nihilism