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This post continues to discuss the questions brought up by Krystal Smith in her (now unavailable) article 15 Questions Atheists Want Christians to Answer . One issue atheists and agnostics raise with religion is that there seems to be conflict between religious belief and scientific discovery. The questions offered by Krystal Smith in her article which lend themselves to such discussion are: 1. Do you Believe in Evolution? 2. Have You Found any Contradictions In Your Holy Tex

In the first two installments, we looked at questions concerning God’s existence as well as the seeming dichotomy of God being good and yet allowing suffering in the world. In this next section, the questions focus on a slightly different line of inquiry. Ceding the question of whether a deity of some sort might exist, at least for the moment, the questions now focus on how we can know that our faith is the right one, given how many religions there are now, and how many there

“Often Christians of the present day discuss the ‘problem of evil.’ Why does a good, loving, and all-powerful God allow evil in the world? Perhaps this question itself is misguided or based on a false premise. Not only does it presume humanity is the innocent victim of evil, but also that evil is an external force from which, it is imagined, God is failing to protect us. The reality is precisely the reverse – evil enters creation as a result of humanity’s collusion with evil

According to a 2015 Pew Research Poll, approximately one third of Millennials in the United States, and nearing forty percent of younger Millennials, are not affiliated with any religious body ( Millennials increasingly are driving growth of ‘nones’ | Pew Research Center) . Not being religiously affiliated does not necessarily equate to atheism, untold numbers of people, then, are searching for the truth. If we are to engage with these people, to show them the light of Christ

Fr. Nicholas Newman Mysterious Origins On Feast-days of Christ, the Coptic Church celebrates the Divine Liturgy with an Anaphora attributed to St. Gregory the Theologian. This is one of three main Anaphoras in use in the Coptic Church, the other two being attributed to St. Mark the Evangelist and St. Basil the Great. Manuscripts of the Liturgy of St. Gregory the Theologian exist in Sahidic Coptic, the earliest dating from around the sixth century, later manuscripts, in Bohair