Charles A. McCoy M.Div.

a teacher, & imperfect disciple of Jesus Christ. Former Radio journalist on N.P.R. affiliate stations and stringer for U.P.I. and A.P. .

[Pastor Rick Brennan Jr @rickbrennanjr]

Yesterday, a Catholic reader made an observation that caused me to reflect. He suggested that many of my posts are academic and theological, while most people on X are simply lay Christians who want to love Christ, worship Him, and live faithfully. I think there’s some truth in that. Here was my response.

I appreciate your heart, and I actually agree with much of what you wrote. The Christian life is not ultimately about winning academic debates. It is about loving Christ, worshiping Him, and growing in holiness. Theology that doesn’t lead to greater love for God has missed its purpose.

That said, I was exactly where you are four years ago. At age 68 I enrolled in seminary intending to take just a few classes. Instead, I became convicted. I realized that although I had been a Christian most of my life, I knew far less than I thought. Family, career, and the busyness of life had lulled me into thinking I knew enough—perhaps even more than the average layman. I was wrong. The deeper I studied Scripture, the great theologians of the past, and church history, the more I loved Christ, and the more I realized how much there was still to learn.

That experience changed me and gave focus to the ministry I hope to spend the last quarter of my life pursuing. Today, as one of the pastors at my church, I teach a class called Foundations of Our Faith. It isn’t intended to produce scholars. It is intended to equip ordinary believers to know why they believe what they believe. I teach Protestant theology, but I also explain how Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Lutherans, Anglicans, and others understand these same doctrines. I try to teach the 2,000-year history of the Christian faith honestly—the strengths as well as the failures. My goal isn’t to tell people what to think. It is to help them own their faith through careful study of Scripture, prayer, and biblical meditation.

So I don’t see academics and devotion as competitors. The greatest theologians in church history—Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Calvin, Owen, and Edwards—were not only brilliant thinkers but also deeply devotional men. Loving God with all our heart also includes loving Him with all our mind (Matt. 22:37). For me, deeper study has never diminished worship; it has only deepened it.

That focus is what guides what I post about. I disagree with many Roman Catholic doctrines and practices, but I am neither anti-Catholic nor do I hate Catholics, as I am sometimes accused. In fact, I deeply respect Roman Catholics who know what they believe and why they believe it. My frustration is that many of the Catholics I encounter on X offer only superficial answers—often repeating something they heard on the platform or read on Catholic Answers. In my opinion, Catholic Answers is an excellent place to learn the official Catholic position, but it is not the best place to learn the depth and richness of Catholic theology. It can be a bit like reading Cliff Notes—you know the answer, but not always the reasoning behind it.

So whether someone is Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant, my prayer is the same: study your faith deeply, study those with whom you disagree fairly, and let that pursuit lead you to love Christ more. We have real theological differences, but we also share far more in Christ than our social media exchanges often reveal.

[Matt Kennedy @lambeth981]

"To consider a person of whatever age and the awful things that have happened to him is, on the whole, a compassionate thing to do. Studying the human person and taking seriously what sin does not just to the body, but to the mind and spirit as well is what Jesus did that one time, when looking out over the crowd of sheep without a shepherd, he was moved in his bowels with pity. But you’ll notice, if you watch that clip, that pity and compassion aren’t uppermost in the conversation. Professor McKnight appears to be trying to humanize and understand Saint Paul, but with a hint of disdain. And this seems like as good a moment as any to admit that there is a certain danger in leaping too quickly to the psychological diagnosis of trauma, especially for a figure in the past with whom you cannot converse directly. The danger is that you, or I, or even Professor McKnight might discount and disregard whatever the supposed traumatized person says or does. Under the guise of compassion, the onlooker can nevertheless view the “traumatized” as, well, untrustworthy, quite in the manner of the Corinthians themselves. That is, in fact, what the Super Apostles were doing. It is not really compassionate, in point of fact, to diagnose someone with “trauma” so as to be able to take whatever they say with a heaping measure of salt." Anne Kennedy, link below

[Charles A. McCoy M.Div. @arquidoulos2]

Rev. Dr. Bernard Randall has reached a legal settlement after a seven-year dispute that began when he preached a sermon at a Church of England-affiliated school affirming the church’s historic, Biblical teaching on marriage—that it is to be between one man and one woman, sex is reserved for marriage, and that God created humans male and female—and encouraging students to think critically about what they were being taught, that they are free to disagree with LGBTQ ideology while treating everyone with love and respect.

Following the sermon, Randall was suspended and reported to the UK’s Prevent counterterrorism program and became the subject of a Church safeguarding investigation.

After years of legal proceedings, an independent safeguarding review found the allegations against him were unsubstantiated and concluded there were no ongoing safeguarding concerns. Randall has since reached a confidential settlement with the school and is now eligible to preach again and return to work in education.

Randall said he was simply carrying out his calling as a Christian chaplain in a Christian school.

[Dr. Sheila Nazarian @sheilanazarian]

I want to ask the students screaming “Death to America”, do you have any idea what happens when American values die?

Because I do.

My family fled Iran, a country where freedom died. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.

You think America is oppressive because you have never experienced real oppression.

You think silence is violence because you’ve never been silenced.

You think words are dangerous because you have never watched a government drag someone away for speaking them.

You think capitalism is evil because you have never stood in a bread line.

You think borders are immoral because you have never had to flee across one.

You think revolution is romantic because you have never had a revolution take everything from you.

I have.

And that’s why I refuse to be quiet.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

In my office I keep a clock that tracks our national debt in real time. This morning it read nearly $40T.

Washington taxes you, borrows against your grandchildren, then sends billions out the door without knowing who receives it or if any service was ever performed. No private business survives that way. The government shouldn't either.

[Charles A. McCoy M.Div. @arquidoulos2]

@BishopBarron Wonderful. Sage Advice Bishop. Thanks for posting this vital reminder.

[Charles A. McCoy M.Div. @arquidoulos2]

Unfortunately Lad this is not news to anyone with their eyes open for the last twenty years - only excelerated by UnTrudeau.

[govt.exe is corrupt @govt_corrupt]

Reports record loss.
Gets a bailout
Pays millions in performance based bonuses.

Canada is a dumpster fire.

[Charles A. McCoy M.Div. @arquidoulos2]

@LifeNewsHQ @ProtecttheFaith Bad News!!! Not Confessional Anglicans but Anglicans in Apostacy fromd the 39 Articles! A Right Synagogue of You Know Who!!!

[Charles A. McCoy M.Div. @arquidoulos2]

This has been gestating for well over fifty years now:

[Charles A. McCoy M.Div. @arquidoulos2]

FABLE

[Himanshu Kumar @codewithimanshu]

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[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

"Democracy is a nuisance and they need to get rid of it."

According to German MEP Christine Anderson, globalist elites deployed totalitarian Covid restrictions as part of a deliberate effort to erode freedom and democracy in the West—transforming constitutional rights into privileges that governments can grant or revoke depending on obedience.

"They didn't need to do that in China because China already is a totalitarian regime."

"They didn't need to do that in North Korea—it already is a totalitarian regime."

"But they needed to do it in the Western democracies because... from their perspective, democracy is a nuisance and they need to get rid of it."

[Fr. Dwight Longenecker @dlongenecker1]

I'm waiting for diversity in casting to give us a white woman playing Othello.

[Charles A. McCoy M.Div. @arquidoulos2]

That should read “Church of England” Not “Anglican” per se.

And. . . For Historical Context in viewing this new motion by the Church of England (not Anglican Church), it might be helpful to refresh our collective memory as to what the Balfour Declaration stated:

The Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917) is in the public domain, so here’s the final text in full — this was a letter from Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild:

Foreign Office November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours sincerely, Arthur James Balfour

(This final version went through several revisions before reaching this wording. Earlier drafts (worked on through October 1917) used stronger language — including a reference to Palestine as “the” national home rather than “a” national home, and lacked the safeguard clause about non-Jewish communities’ rights, which was added later at the insistence of Edwin Montagu and others in the Cabinet who were concerned about the declaration’s implications).

[Charles A. McCoy M.Div. @arquidoulos2]

For Historical Context in viewing this new motion by the Church of England (not Anglican Church), it might be helpful to refresh our collective memory as to what the Balfour Declaration stated:

The Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917) is in the public domain, so here’s the final text in full — this was a letter from Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild:

Foreign Office November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours sincerely, Arthur James Balfour

(This final version went through several revisions before reaching this wording. Earlier drafts (worked on through October 1917) used stronger language — including a reference to Palestine as “the” national home rather than “a” national home, and lacked the safeguard clause about non-Jewish communities’ rights, which was added later at the insistence of Edwin Montagu and others in the Cabinet who were concerned about the declaration’s implications).

[Charles A. McCoy M.Div. @arquidoulos2]

@DrJulesGomes @JewishNewsUK That should more accurately read “Church of England” not Anglican, right?

[Charles A. McCoy M.Div. @arquidoulos2]

@Vivek4real_ You are still filtering things so don’t think it is free as you say - you won’t boost things that are too hot too handle.

[Charles A. McCoy M.Div. @arquidoulos2]

@WillPrydain @jamesdkclark Just got the digital version - looking forward to reading it. Thanks.

[Charles A. McCoy M.Div. @arquidoulos2]

@Starlink Pero, si no funciona muy bien y quieres devolver su satélite es bien duro para hacerlo. Mi esposa tuve que ir a quatro diversas oficinas para hacerlo. Nadie va a reembolsarte lo que deben por tu tiempo in este proceso. Es la muerte.

[Charles A. McCoy M.Div. @arquidoulos2]

@dlongenecker1 @cusackandrew Albeit true,
not funny
In the least.