A Great Little Book
This book will be lost on some Ref21 correpondents, but I’ve just been given a copy of Eric W Gritsch’s book, The Wit of Martin Luther (Fortress), a superb study of the humour of the great Reformer.
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Stating the obvious
I am reading a book on preaching to `postmoderns’ for review. There is much about it that I’m enjoying, but I find myself once again frustrated by the evangelical generalizations about postmodernism so-called.
Operation Homecoming, Part 3
From one of Makoto Fujimura’s “Refractions” essays, writing in response to the Amish school girl who tried to offer her life for her classmates, with the implications for artists: “Here, in a miracle nobody noticed, is a bugle call also…
A view from the cab
(Editor’s note: due to complaints we have received, we are introducing a new certification scheme for our blogs, ranging from `G’ for `Godly’ and thus suitable for all to `M’ for those blogs which contain material offensive to the spiritually…
Forsyth link
One of our readers, Peter Whyte, sent in this link to some P T Forsyth material on the web (and what looks like an interesting theology site all round). Here is the link: https://ptforsythfiles.blogspot.com/
More Forsyth quotations
If one sign of a great theologian is his ability to sieze hold of the imagination of his readers witha single line, to disturb them, to fascinate them, to make them think, then Forsyth ranks near the top. Here’s a few…
Operation Homecoming, Part 2
More material from Makoto Fujimura’s essay “Operation Homecoming: Epistles of Injury.” As he read letters from soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, Fujimura was reminded of a bloody event on American soil, and the sacrifice that one person was willing to…
China Report
A close friend and ministry colleague reported to me today that the well-known Beijingchurch activist Hua Huiqi and his 76-year-old mother were attacked and woundedby the police in the morning of January 26, 2007:
The Derailing of Apologetics
I remember the first time I was asked whether I was a presuppositionalist or an evidentialist in apologetics. That was on my first visit to the USA, more years ago that I care to dwell on. The questioner put me…
J Alan Groves funeral
This is the quickest way to say thank you to the numerous readers of the Ref21 blog who have graciously taken the time to send in condolences and assurances of prayer regarding the death of Alan Groves, a dear friend and…