by Glenn Sunshine | Mar 3, 2025 | Church Year, Culture, Featured
Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, is in two days. Lent is the period of preparation for Holy Week and especially the celebration of Easter, but traditionally, there was also a time of preparation for Lent. This preparation time in the western church actually goes back...
by Glenn Sunshine | Feb 24, 2025 | Apologetics, C.S. Lewis, Featured
I’ve been thinking a lot about apologetics lately, particularly in terms of the best approaches to use today. For a variety of reasons, I am not sure the traditional approaches based on reason, argumentation, and evidence are as effective as they used to be. In my...
by Glenn Sunshine | Feb 17, 2025 | Bible & Theology, Church History, Discipleship, Featured
So far in this series, we have talked about the reason for the Council of Nicaea and its decision affirmed in the Nicene Creed, Constantine’s role in the Council, and the subsequent development of the Nicene Creed. But for Protestants, particularly of the evangelical...
by Glenn Sunshine | Feb 10, 2025 | Bible & Theology, Church History, Featured, History
In the first post in our series for the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, I looked at the Arian controversy and the Council’s conclusion on the deity of Christ. In the second post, I looked at the role of Constantine at the Council. Here, I want to look at...
by Glenn Sunshine | Feb 5, 2025 | Bible & Theology, Church History, Featured, History
There are a number of frankly bizarre conspiracy theories about the Council of Nicaea’s decision to affirm the deity of Christ, most of which involve the role of the Emperor Constantine. Constantine’s Conversion To understand the controversy about the emperor’s...
