Ours is the first generation of Christians that has seriously asked the question, how much time can I spend on entertaining myself? In all the reading I have done in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, I have never once come…
As Sherlock Holmes said somewhere, the clue to the case was the dog that did not bark. Should we interpret the silence on Carl Trueman’s (or, to avoid causing sexist offence or falling prey to enlightenment foundationalism in these relativist…
Given the fact that the Trinitarian identity of the Christian God is the identity of the Christian God, how do the other bloggers on Ref21 (who are all ministers) ensure that the action of worship in their churches on a…
“Nobody ever did perish trusting in Jesus. There has not been through all these centuries a single instance of a soul being cast away that came all guilty and hell-deserving, and took Christ to be its salvation. If you perish,…
Even a brief perusal of the Fall 2007 Eerdmans Books for Young Readers shows how far the publisher’s mission has moved, not to say strayed, from its Reformed and evangelical heritage. To be sure, there are promising titles in the catalog. But…
A week or two ago I made a post on a new biography of C. Stacey Woods. Here is a characteristic quotation from his message “A Single Eye,” first given at the Urbana Conference in 1954: “If a Christian has…
Writing in USA Today this week, Skidmore College’s Mary Zeiss Stange argues that Martin Luther would join her in blessing same-sex unions. The basic argument for this is as conventional as it is false, namely, that the genius of the Reformation…
Rev Bryan Follis of Belfast kindly sent me a copy of his new book, Truth with Love: The Apologetics of Francis Schaeffer (Crossway). I was very moved (convicted?) by the conclusion of the book:
Martin Downes, the great Welsh ecumenist, brought this article in The Times to my attention. As Tipton and Oliphint exclude Trueman from the congregation of the faithful, so the Pope now excludes everyone outside his own communion: Looks like…
I see that K Scott Oliphint and Lane G Tipton have published a new book, Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed APologetics (P and R). It seems that every member of Westminster’s Theological Field was invited to contribute, with…
