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The World's Oldest Anti-Christian Meme

I first came across the Alexamenos graffito back in Bible college in the early 2000s. It was one of those “fun facts” that gets dropped into a church history lecture and sticks with you — the ancient Roman equivalent of someone spray-painting an insult on a wall. I filed it away, thought it was fascinating, and largely forgot about it for two decades. Then, recently, I discovered something about it I had never known. There’s a response to it. Scratched in a different room, in a different hand. So I started digging into this more to verify the information and discovered more historical curiosities surrounding the graffiti than I ever knew existed wh...

Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up (Book Review)

Straight off, this book will challenge you in your thinking and quite possibly in your practice and outworking of life as a Christian—especially if you are from an evangelical/Baptist/non-denominational background. Will the Real HereticsPlease Stand Up The book starts of taking you carefully through some of the practices and beliefs of the early church and those who knew the Apostles personally. It all feels very hopeful and like you're being led onward in a journey towards a certain goal, much of which I'm sure you'll find agreeable in what Bercot points out as discrepancies between early christianity and today. Then we get to a few points about the Re...

Creedal Christians: The Nicene Creed

...tps://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/scholarsandscientists/eusebius-of-caesarea.html https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/f/First_Council_of_Nicaea.htm https://www.britannica.com/event/Council-of-Nicaea-christianity-325 https://www.theopedia.com/ecumenical-councils http://www.prayerfoundation.org/nicene_creed_scripture_basis.htm https://brewminate.com/filioque-and-the-latin-greek-great-schism-of-1054/ http://www.oxfordbiblicalstudies.com/article/opr/t94/e389 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Filioque_controversy http://www.religionfacts.com/da-vinci-code/nicea  ...

Christians and the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

...tps://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2020/february/coronavirus-christians-and-christ-centered-response.html https://biblemesh.com/blog/the-compassion-of-early-christians/...

Humble without the #hashtag

...As much as it a pains me to give this guy any more exposure, sometimes you need to in order to expose something. First, you need to watch the latest video from Joshua Feuerstein to understand what I'm talking about here:     I do this not to further his “cause” or “movement” but rather to counteract it. Mainly with something more practical, but hopefully also with more common sense too. It's things like this that give christianity a bad name. I mean really, is this really what Christians should be worried about? Why not do something more useful like feed the homeless and start a movement that'll actually benefit society AND do something Jesus...

The Coming of Jesus: Revelation Fulfilled?

...Don’t let the title put you off, we’re about to go on a mad journey through the annuls of history and the Roman Empire, contrasting what John saw in his vision with what has already played out on the “world’s stage” and what we possibly have to look forward to! First though, let’s look at a little history concerning the book itself before delving into its contents. Why do this? For a couple of reasons really: one, Revelation has some dispute over the year in which it was written, which can impact on the interpretation. Two, at various points in early church history, the book was held in suspicion of being spurious and almost...