You should not take anyone’s word for this

What every answer has to do

• Answer the question in the first three sentences. If someone arrives worried, they get a straight answer before anything else. No throat-clearing.
• Cite the source, not the summary. Scripture gets chapter and verse. A church father gets the work, the section, and roughly when it was written — because “Athanasius said” means nothing if you don’t know whether that was 320 or 1520.
• State the objection properly. Every page names the hard version of the question — the one the sceptical video makes — and answers that, not a softened stand-in.
• Say when we don’t know. Where the evidence is thin or Christians have genuinely disagreed for centuries, the page says so. Manufactured certainty is the fastest way to lose a reader who is actually thinking.

Where the quotations come from

Patristic quotations are taken from the standard published translations — the Ante-Nicene Fathers and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers collections — and lightly modernised for readability. Any page that modernises a quotation says so directly beneath it. The point of the citation is that you can go and read the surrounding chapter yourself, and disagree with us if it doesn’t say what we say it says.

What happens when we get something wrong

Pages here are evergreen: they are corrected in place rather than retracted and reposted, and every answer carries the date it was last checked at the top. If you find an error — a misattributed quote, a verse that doesn’t say what we claim, an objection handled unfairly — send it and it gets fixed, with the change noted.

Who writes this

[PLACEHOLDER — write this yourself before launch. Cover: your name and background; what training you do and don’t have; which Christian tradition you write from and how that shapes what you emphasise; who reviews the theology; and what you do when a question is outside your competence. Be specific and be modest — a page claiming less and proving it beats a page claiming more.]