by Steve Ray on February 5, 2007
Baptist in a Bookstore I was walking among the isles of books minding my own business. Around the corner I noticed someone approaching me. I looked up from the books and saw the Baptist. We had met before. He jumped right in — looking for a fight. We had met several months after my conversion [...]
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by Steve Ray on January 8, 2007
Case #2. The grandmother is an alcoholic and the father spends his evenings out drinking in the taverns. His mother has tuberculosis. She has already given birth to four children. The first child is blind, the second child died, the third child is deaf, and the fourth child has tuberculosis. Now the mother is pregnant [...]
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by Steve Ray on December 23, 2006
For Readers of THIS ROCK Magazine Soon to be discussed on: Relevant Radio's Searching the Word (Jan. 24) & Morning Air (Jan. 17) Ave Maria Radio's Catholic Connections (announced soon) EWTN's Catholic Answers Live (Jan. 17) My new article Should Catholics go to Non-Denominational Bible Studies? appears in the January 2207 issue of THIS ROCK Magazine. In [...]
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by Steve Ray on December 19, 2006
I was the guest today on Searching the Word on Relevant Radio (Tuesday, December 19, 2006). I was asked about the Virgin Birth of Jesus. Did he have a miraculous birth—specifically, did he pass from the womb of Mary miraculously—that is, by avoiding the birth canal and leaving the hymen intact, or was he was born normally [...]
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by Steve Ray on December 17, 2006
Holy Ground, Holy Places and Christmas This is a picture of the exact place where Jesus was born — in a cave in Bethlehem. Today it is under the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. (Click on picture for another enlarged image.) What makes this few square feet of earth special — holy? Why is [...]
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by Steve Ray on December 15, 2006
What does the word "Catholic" mean? "As a Protestant, I went to an Evangelical church that changed an important and historical word in the Apostles Creed. Instead of the “holy, catholic Church,” we were the “holy, Christian church.” At the time, I thought nothing of it. There was certainly no evil intent, just a loathing [...]
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by Steve Ray on December 5, 2006
Did the Wise Men Meet the Shepherds? by Steve Ray A king was born. But He was born unlike most kings. There was no pomp and circumstance; there were no midwives or court attendants. There was only the bleating of sheep and the buzzing of flies. Birth in a cave-stable was not like birth in [...]
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by Steve Ray on November 27, 2006
Steve will join Jerry Usher on Catholic Answers Live tonight to discuss "The Creeds: What They Are and Why We Need Them." To listen to the archived show, click here. For all Steve's appearances on Catholic Answers Live, click here. For Steve's new books on the Creeds, click on the images.
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by Steve Ray on November 7, 2006
Steve Ray's New Book: Faith for Beginners Steve's long-awaited new book has been released. Faith For Beginners: Understanding the Creeds in the Catholic Answers Beginner Series written with Dennis Walters. The Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds are prayers most Catholics take for granted. We pray them by rote when we say the Rosary or go to [...]
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by Steve Ray on October 11, 2006
What is That? Find out in my new Document filled with Quotations, Verses & Additional Resources on the Communion of the Saints. Feel free to download and print them out.
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by Steve Ray on October 3, 2006
When it Comes to Bible Study — We Need the Church! Imagine children running and tussling in the grass. Picture the playground unsupervised and lurking with deadly surroundings: a sharp cliff dropping down a thousand feet to one side, a field of landmines, poisonous snakes in the sand, and a bog of quicksand on the [...]
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by Steve Ray on August 21, 2006
Several years ago an anti-Catholic named William Webster wrote a sloppy critique of my book Upon this Rock: St. Peter and the Primacy of Rome in the Scriptures and Early Church. In response I wrote a 200 page rebuttal. Then we went back and forth a few more times and others joined in. Webster eventually cried [...]
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by Steve Ray on August 13, 2006
National Catholic Register interviewed me for the front page of their August 6-12, 2006 issue. The interview was entitled Trouble in the Land They Call the Fifth Gospel. You can read the interview now by clicking on my blog entry here. In the interview, which was conducted during the first few days of the Lebanon-Israel [...]
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by Steve Ray on August 9, 2006
In the last issue of National Catholic Register (link to the paper, not the article) they published an interview with me on the front page. I thought it turned out nicely. Two people have written me to criticize me for my comments on the conflict in the Middle East. The interview was given only a few [...]
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by Steve Ray on May 8, 2006
 Read Steve Ray’s Article St. Jerome would be Shocked—St. Francis de Sales Delighted! Bible Study and Research Software Â
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by Steve Ray on April 14, 2006
Four years ago I wrote an Open Letter to the Filipinos which was published in a parish bulletin in Manila. To my surprise it began to spread and was soon in all the major papers in the Philippines. Then I discovered Filipino people were emailing it to each other all over the world. That was [...]
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