Christianity disrupts the ‘brutal’ morality of the ancient world
By Teresa Morgan (adapted by Kaley Payne from Episode 4 Moral Classics of Undeceptions, Season 1) You really should know more about the classical world. The biggest myth about the classical world is that it’s not relevant. But it is so relevant. If you…
Who was Mary Magdalene, really?
By Kaley Payne Mary Magdalene, considered to be one of the Bible’s most mysterious women, had a profound impact on the early church. She has been labelled many things: sex worker, saint, sinner, witness, wife. "Mary Magdalene can be a…
Smart people can be Christian, too
By Sarah Irving-Stonebraker (adapted by Kaley Payne from Undeceptions Season 1, Dominus Illuminatio) When Sarah Irving-Stonebraker first arrived at Cambridge on a scholarship, and then later took a job at Oxford, she thought Christians were anti-intellectual. “I couldn't understand what God…
Two things you really should know about the Crusades
By Kaley Payne When popular international ministry Campus Crusade for Christ changed its name to Cru in 2011, one of the reasons cited by then-Vice President of the US arm, Steve Sellers, was that the word ‘crusade’ had “developed an…
Protestants cannot distance themselves from historical Church evils
By Kaley Payne The tendency for Protestants to distance themselves from the great evils of Church history with the cry ‘but that was the Catholics’ is unconvincing from a historical standpoint, argues John Dickson. “I suppose when your tradition popped…