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Boice Memorial

James Montgomery Boice (1938-2000) On April 22, 2007 a memorial plaque commemorating the service of James Montgomery Boice as Senior Minister of Tenth Presbyterian Church was unveiled. In late 2000, Tenth formed a committee to recommend a suitable memorial in…

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The Daughters of Hurin

Spied at PCRT in Grand Rapids: Ligon Duncan hunkered down in a corner of the Country Kitchen, his nose in a book.  A new book by J. R. R. Tolkien, as it turns out, which Ligon was trying to read…

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Together for the Gospel

There is a new Together for the Gospel video online–a continuing conversation among Mark Dever, Albert Mohler, Ligon Duncan, and C.J. Mahaney. Registration for T4G 2008 opens soon. The book built from the 2006 conference–Preaching the Cross–is now available.

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The Theistic Turn?

A noteworthy book that’s just come out in English translation: Regis Debray’s Praised Be Our Lords: The Autobiography (Verso).  Debray, a student of Althusser, a companion of Che Guevara in Bolivia, and an advisor to the Mitterand government, is an interesting…

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Reasonable Oliphint

Have you purchased Scott Oliphint’s new book, Reasons for Faith: Philosophy in the Service of Theology yet? Had one of those déjà vu moments yesterday. I was sitting in Starbucks at 6.30 am reading the first chapter on “Wittgensteinian fideism,”…

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Penal Substitution and the UK

Spring Harvest, the largest evangelical conference in the UK, has severed its longstanding relationship with UCCF (which owns the British side of InterVarsity Press). The issue appears to be that of penal substitution and the position of Steve Chalke (who infamously referred…

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Pending updated

Not wanting to spoil Trotter’s fun, but I have now changed the Blog Theme. (BTW: An on-going discussion on the wider theme of pictures/images of Jesus has been taking place in recent issues of New Horizon’s, the denominational magazine of…