Church and Biblical History

Preachers and Preaching: Four hundred sixty years ago, on March 21, 1556, a crowd of curious spectators packed University Church in Oxford, England. They were there to witness the public recantation of one of the most well-known English Reformers, a man named Thomas Cranmer.

These Iraqi immigrants revere John the Baptist, but they’re not Christians

If the Pharisaical author should ever show himself in these parts, we trust that a stout cord may speedily find its way around his eloquent throat.

Computers Decipher Burnt Scroll Found in Ancient Holy Ark

“Radiocarbon dating of the scroll suggests that it may be between 1,700 and 1,800 years old, at least 200 years older than previously thought. … the scroll’s distinctive handwriting hearkens back to the first or second century A.D.”

Jewish News Service: “This is the first synagogue discovered in the rural part of the Galilee and it confirms historical information we have about the New Testament, which says that Jesus preached at synagogues in Galilean villages.”

“The Bible has been translated far more than any other book. Yet, as Harry Freedman reveals in his new book, the history of Bible translations is not only contentious but bloody, with many who dared translate it being burned at the stake.” BBC History Magazine

Master’s Seminary: May we live as [William] Farel lived, his face set as flint on the Lord Jesus Christ. May we see those who are held captive by Satan as opportunities to be won for Christ, even till death.

In memoirs, ex Pope Benedict says Vatican ‘gay lobby’ tried to wield power

Benedict to tell all about troubled time at the Vatican

“Patrick was not, in fact, a nascent Baptist, but those who sought to claim him as one rightly noted the error of associating him with the modern Roman Catholic Church.” BPNews