Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60064 Reports of miraculous events associated with the Roman Catholic Church have circulated for centuries: weeping statues, Eucharistic miracles where communion wafers are said to turn into human tissue, incorrupt bodies of saints, apparitions of the Virgin Mary, and unexplained healings at sites like Lourdes. For many Catholics, these phenomena confirm their church’s unique…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60065 The practice of praying to Mary and the saints is one of the most visible differences between Roman Catholicism and evangelical Protestantism. For many Catholics, asking Mary or a canonised saint to intercede on their behalf is as natural and unremarkable as asking a friend to pray for them. For evangelicals, the practice…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60061 This is a question that deserves to be answered with honesty rather than defensiveness. The record of institutional abuse within churches, from the Roman Catholic scandals involving thousands of clergy, to cases within Protestant denominations, independent churches, and parachurch organisations, is genuinely appalling. Victims have been betrayed by the very people who were…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60063 Many people assume that education and Christian faith are fundamentally at odds, that the more educated a person becomes, the less they will believe, and that serious intellectual inquiry inevitably leads away from God. This assumption runs deep in Western culture and is reinforced by a vocal strand of the academic establishment that…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60053 Dan Brown’s 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code became a global phenomenon, selling tens of millions of copies and generating a major film adaptation. Its influence extended far beyond entertainment, because Brown presented his fictional narrative as resting on historical fact, and millions of readers took the claims seriously. The book alleges that…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60054 Numerology, the belief that numbers carry hidden spiritual meanings and that the numerical values of names, dates, and events can reveal divine truths or predict the future, has a long history in human culture and a persistent presence in popular spirituality. It also appears in certain strands of Christian teaching, where elaborate numerical…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60047 The question of whether a person can be both pro-choice and a faithful Christian arises with increasing frequency, particularly in cultures where reproductive rights have become a defining political issue. It is a question that deserves a direct and honest answer, because it touches on matters of life, death, and the character of…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60052 String theory is one of the most ambitious attempts in modern physics to construct a unified description of the fundamental forces of the universe. It proposes that the most basic constituents of reality are not point-like particles but tiny, vibrating strings of energy whose different modes of vibration produce the different particles observed…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60045 The term “woke” has undergone a rapid transformation in public usage. Originally emerging from African American vernacular to describe heightened awareness of racial injustice, it has expanded into a comprehensive cultural posture encompassing race, gender, sexuality, economic inequality, and a range of other social concerns. For Christians, the question is not whether awareness…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60046 To observers outside the United States, and to many American believers themselves, a particular strain of American evangelicalism has become closely identified with political positions on firearms and immigration that appear to be held with the same intensity as core doctrinal convictions. The phenomenon raises a legitimate question: when Christians invest as much…