Coming back to London, the minister stopped outside Atlanta, Georgia, to speak at a naval chaplain’s convention. And when his three days of revving these naval chaplains up—over a thousand of them, in Suwanee—the chaplain general took him out for a meal.…
“The more I go to church, and the more I turn myself over the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.”…
The latest edition of Harper’s Magazine has an article by Jeff Sharlet on how the Christian right is reimagining US history. R J Rushdoony gets quite a few column inches but Sharlet misses the worst aspect of this man’s history:…
Paul Helm now has a blog (Helm’s Deep: Philosophical Theology), upon which he has been posting a number of his recent papers. He has posted Warfield on Divine Passion and Anthropomorphism Protestant Style. Forthcoming are “The Calvinist Concept of God,”…
I took my family today to see The Nativity Story. It is a tremendous movie. It is not only reverent but extremely moving. The script if faithful to the Bible, though with the usual artistic liberties (such as the three…
Frank James is a good friend from my Oxford days and I grieve for the loss he has suffered. Lisa’s family lost a beloved husband, father, brother, and son in a climbing accident a couple of years ago, so we know…
“Monotheistic religions that lay claim to the one and only possible truth are doomed by their very nature to end up in conflict. The only way out is to free ourselves from these ancient divisive creeds and thus extinguish their…
“Now this London preacher flew back to the UK and was speaking at the Keswick Convention in the Lake District. And he threw in these three testimonies. At the close of his teaching session, four elderly pastors came up and…
Fox News: “A body found in a snow cave on Oregon’s Mount Hood has been identified as that of climber Kelly James, a person close to the family said Monday.” Kelly James is the brother of Frank James III, president…
Joel Beeke recently wrote to me about the following. He said: “The Dutch Reformed Translation Society is seriously contemplating translating Petrus van Mastricht’s 4-volume magisteral work of systematic theology and ethics, Theologia theoretico-practica [“Theoretical and Practical Theology”]–a work that Jonathan…
