What is the difficulty with how churches have been ministering to families? Watch this video from Randy Stinson, Timothy Paul Jones, and Jay Strother to find out.
— Sep 15
One factor that influenced family discipleship during this period was the state of the clergy. Not all clergy during the medieval era served as pastors. In fact, large numbers of clergy had no ministry whatsoever among laypeople. Monasticism had grown in popularity throughout the Middle Ages, and many monks lived their lives [...]
Something great happened this past basketball season for one of my sons.
He sat the bench.
You may be thinking that such news sounds more like a cause for depression than celebration—and at the beginning of the season, my middle-school son would have agreed with you. The truth is, I do not want him to want [...]
Augustine’s theological teachings greatly influenced the intellectual life of the church of the early and high Middle Ages. Whether the topic was the Trinity, [...]
By anyone’s reckoning, the North African pastor Augustine of Hippo was the single most important theologian in the minds of the medieval scholars. Prominent alongside the searching spiritual narrative of Augustine’s Confessions are his remarks about the influence of his mother Monica. According to Augustine’s testimony, Monica was reared by Christian parents with the [...]