I propose that to better protect the calling of the church and her central doctrine of justification by faith alone, there should be separation of church and state. By Simon Jooste  from Cape Town.

In a nutshell, according to the cardinal, all human beings will be saved by Christ, with or without faith in Christ.

We should preach as professionals in the sense of “to the best of our ability” and as amateurs in the sense of “with the passion of a captured heart”.

As we focus on the mind-stretching story of the Creator entering into his creation as a human infant, let’s worship him with heart, head and hands this Christmas.

Jesus didn’t exclude any of the children. He wants to get to know them, to love them, to rescue them, to journey through life with them.

God offers so much more than mere amnesty. He has paid the great and humiliating price for true justice.

The agreement on the appointment of bishops will be extended two years. “The price to be paid is immense because the Catholic Church renounces to its independence”.

Almost 8,000 municipalities do not have an evangelical presence yet, says church planter Máximo Álvarez in an interview.

The first results of the “synodal process” in European dioceses are attacks on the Tridentine paradigm.

The nature of God’s character should flow into our ministry, which will then characterise our connection with the church.

Defining ‘transformation’ in the invitational mission of God. An article by Rupen Das.

In recent years, we have witnessed a growing fascination with Thomas Aquinas and Thomism by evangelical theologians.

Christian leaders lament “the degradation of truth in our public discourse” and the “arrogance” seen in the last weeks. They pray for a new leader with “integrity, wisdom, honesty and competence”.

Ecclesiastes mirrors, in my view, a general feeling of people in our contemporary Western world. Life is meaningless, says the ordinary human being.

The history of the Roman Catholic conclaves indicates that electoral majorities do not predictably follow in the way they were formed, but can be constructed in an unexpected way.

The recently released State of Theology survey states that “Americans often aren’t sure how to balance hot-button cultural issues with theological beliefs”.

Rome fears that the pendulum of Catholicity breaks the framework of Romanism.

Perhaps we would do better to be astonished by the profound crop of the good soil instead of trying to count every sprout as part of the harvest.

A historical sketch of the Nature-Grace interdependence (III)

We can so easily think it is enough to hear, to read, to know, to understand, even to believe … but Jesus said that we need to actually do what He says.

Archaeologists of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found 1,600-year-old mosaics with the images of Deborah and Jael in an ancient synagogue in Israel.

Our sin is so big that it has separated us from God forever. God knows that. That is why He made a better way for us.

The kind of “evangelization” the Pope is advocating for in Praedicate Evangelium is something utterly distant from the biblical meaning of the word.

Some countries, especially in Africa, depend on Ukrainian grain. Urgent measures need to be taken to avoid the catastrophic consequences of the war in Europe.

A historical sketch of the Nature-Grace interdependance (II)