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Questions that deserve sources.
Some questions get answered with a slogan on one side and a slogan on the other. These are the long versions: what the text says, what the word meant, who disagrees and why they disagree. Where a claim is genuinely contested, you will see both readings side by side rather than the tidier half of one.
Explainer · Translation
Is the kingdom of God within you?
Luke 17:21 is the verse the whole "heaven within" idea gets hung on, and it is one of the most contested translations in the New Testament. What the Greek says, why the major Bibles disagree, and what survives either way.
Explainer · Terms
What is a Christian agnostic?
Belief and certainty are two different questions, and English blurs them. A look at where the word came from, the long Christian tradition of unknowing behind it, and the strongest objections from both directions.
Explainer · History
Before they were Christians, they were the Way.
The first followers of Jesus had a different name and a different shape: no buildings, no clergy, no denominations. What the sources actually record about the movement before it became an institution.
Explainer · Practice
Can you follow Jesus without a church?
The question a lot of people cannot ask out loud where they live. What the New Testament requires, what it never mentions, who has practised outside institutions for centuries, and the honest argument against going it alone.
Fact-check · Primary sources
Leviticus, the viral tweet, and Aquinas.
Verse-by-verse verification of the "other Leviticus prohibitions" meme, plus the rest of the legal code, and where the moral / ceremonial / judicial split actually comes from.
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