Anne Rice endorses Darryl Hart!
Who’d a thunk it? “Let me say first of all that I am devoutly committed to the separation of church and state in America. I believe that the separation of church and state has been good for all Christians in…
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Agreements on Baptism
Lig, thanks for the link and for the shorter explanation (following Calvin’s brevity and clarity model!). In the helpful book, Believer’s Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant, ed. Schreiner and Wright, I found a helpful footnote in Mark Dever’s chapter…
Why Presbyterians baptize believers and their children
Our friend and fellow-blogger, Justin Taylor, has helped (here, here, here, here, and here) draw attention to a significant debate (primarily between credo-baptists) on whether paedo-baptists can properly be admitted to membership, and thence the Lord’s Table, in a Baptist Church. For the…
Holding the Line on Justification
For the past decade or so, I have had the privilege of playing a minor role in the defense of the Protestant doctrine of justification. Running in the circles of the anti-New Perspective resistance, I have known the passions of…
Welsh Rugby and summer reading
I’ve revisited the Dark Ages: the time before the internet! All promises for my trip to Belfast that I’d be able to access this site (or my email) proved futile. The reasons are too complicated to explain, but the result was a…
History is history?
In Britain, the History A-level (for non-UK people, that’s the specialised exam in history which you can opt to take at age 18) is to be scrapped. The subject is, apparently, too difficult and too irrelevant. A shame — history…
Some Good Cheese
My friend Sean Lucas has written two terrific blog entries (here and here) in response to the conversation Carl and I have been having over fundamentalism and antithesis over here at Ref21 (See my original piece, Carl’s cheesy reply, and my…
A Barry Bonds Primer on Sin
Like most Americans, I’ve been trying not to think about Barry Bonds and his impending achievement of breaking Hank Aaron’s home run record. But the story is just too compelling. Bonds is a truly Shakespearean figure – of the tragic sort,…
Public Schools: USA vs. UK?
I remember that in a post below, Carl said that his children attend public school. I was wondering if he might have some insights by comparing the public school system in the UK vs. that in the US. (And, yes,…
Excited about the Cross
Readers of the ref21 blog will know that I am not a good blogger. In fact, I am undoubtedly the worst blogger on this site. I could give any number of decent excuses, but I think one of the reasons is…