Heroes & Heretics: Church history through the lens of great controversies and those who defended the :”faith once for all delivered to the saints.”

Heroes & Heretics: Introduction

Audible (if unintentional) groans escape. Eyes roll. Minds disengage. The well-known visceral responses to history lectures. History, though, is only boring when it's taught by boring people. And Church history is not only fascinating, but fundamental to a joyful, confident Christian life. Heroes & Heretics considers the history of the Church through the lens of dangerous heresies and those who stood up for “the faith once and for all delivered to the saints.”

Heroes & Heretics: Introduction

Audible (if unintentional) groans escape. Eyes roll. Minds disengage. The well-known visceral responses to history lectures. History, though, is only boring when it's taught by boring people. And Church history is not only fascinating, but fundamental to a joyful, confident Christian life. Heroes & Heretics considers the history of the Church through the lens of dangerous heresies and those who stood up for “the faith once and for all delivered to the saints.”

Heroes & Heretics: Introduction

Audible (if unintentional) groans escape. Eyes roll. Minds disengage. The well-known visceral responses to history lectures. History, though, is only boring when it's taught by boring people. And Church history is not only fascinating, but fundamental to a joyful, confident Christian life. Heroes & Heretics considers the history of the Church through the lens of dangerous heresies and those who stood up for “the faith once and for all delivered to the saints.”

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Sometimes referred to as the via media (the middle way), the Anglican tradition is to many a choose your own adventure worship service, or a buffet style melange of theological oddities and liturgical fancies, or just plain confusing and weird. In reality Anglicanism is a robust tradition with its own gifts and graces. A tradition which is well positioned to engage an increasingly disillusioned and indifferent world with the Good News of Jesus Christ.

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Confronting Christianity explores 12 questions that keep many of us from considering faith in Christ. Look more closely, McLaughlin argues, and the reality of suffering, the complexity of sexuality, the desire for diversity, the success of science, and other seeming roadblocks to faith become signposts. Jesus becomes not a relic from the ancient world but our modern world's best hope.

Confronting Christianity explores 12 questions that keep many of us from considering faith in Christ. Look more closely, McLaughlin argues, and the reality of suffering, the complexity of sexuality, the desire for diversity, the success of science, and other seeming roadblocks to faith become signposts. Jesus becomes not a relic from the ancient world but our modern world's best hope.

Confronting Christianity explores 12 questions that keep many of us from considering faith in Christ. Look more closely, McLaughlin argues, and the reality of suffering, the complexity of sexuality, the desire for diversity, the success of science, and other seeming roadblocks to faith become signposts. Jesus becomes not a relic from the ancient world but our modern world's best hope.

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