by William Kilpatrick | May 1, 2024
The Trouble with being Spiritual There’s nothing wrong with being spiritual, but there is something wrong with being solely spiritual since we are created as a combination of body and spirit. Nevertheless, Christians throughout history have been tempted to turn the...
by William Kilpatrick | Apr 23, 2024
The second of a two-part series. Until recently, Protestants were more likely than Catholics to succumb to the Gnostic temptation I described in a recent column. In a 2008 article for Modern Reformation, Philip J. Lee described how both Mainline and “born again”...
by William Kilpatrick | Apr 16, 2024
Part 1 of a two-part series A 2023 Gallup poll found that the percentage of Americans who identify as spiritual rather than religious has increased. And among Democrats, more people now describe themselves as spiritual (41%) than as religious (37%). However, according...
by William Kilpatrick | Apr 9, 2024
Suppose someone offered you a shiny quarter in exchange for the tattered $10 bill in your wallet. Would you bite? Silly question. But that’s the kind of exchange proffered in The Da Vinci Code, and apparently, a lot of people are biting. Many scholars have criticized...
by William Kilpatrick | Mar 25, 2024
Pope Francis has frequently claimed that Islam and Catholicism share much in common and he has often drawn a moral equivalence between the two faiths. For example, after the murder of French priest Father Jacques Hamel by two Islamic terrorists, he compared the murder...
