Jerome’s commentary on Titus 1:5 contains an important testimony about the development of the monoepiscopacy in the early church (in addition to various statements in his letters). Since this passage is not found easily in its entirety online, I want to produce it here for public record, as a supplement to my video on the topic (see my video below): —- “It is therefore the very same priest, who is a bishop, and before there existed men who are slanderers by instinct, [before] factions in the religion, and [before] it was said to the people, “I am of Paul, I…

In response to a recent Facebook post on sola Scriptura, my friend Erick Ybarra put out a thoughtful response. As always it is worth reading and pondering at length — which I will continue to do, this is not a response to the whole post. However, one of the points that came up is essentially how much the church can fall into error. For instance, if the assumption of Mary eventually became a universal belief in the church, to what extent does that imply its credibility? On that point, here I want to share some paragraphs from my forthcoming book…