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As an Anabaptist, I note with interest when Anabaptism appears as a topic in religious and political discourse. I was therefore interested to read Daryl

Protestant apologist Jason Engwer wrote the article, "Attempts To Make A Biblical Case For Prayers To The Dead" (Trialblogue, 6-9-08). His words will be I respond to Jason Engwer's erroneous assertions that the Bible never sanctions invoking saints. It does several times, & his counter-explanations abysmally fail.

Exorcism is a ritual of power performed in order to drive an evil spirit, whether demonic or ghostly, from a possessed person, location, or object.

Aristides (d. AD 134) attests that Christians in his day affirmed that Jesus “from a Hebrew virgin assumed and clothed himself with flesh” ( Apology §2), and Irenaeus (d. 130) states, “The Church . . . has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith . . . [including] the birth from a virgin” ( Against Heresies 1.10). It is vital, then, that we have an opportunity each year to reflect on this staggering, foundational fact of Christianity: Jesus — unlike any other human who ever existed — was born without a human father. ‘Born of the Virgin Ma...