Category Reformation21

  The star was so beautiful, large, and clear,That all the other stars of the skyBecame a white mist in the atmosphere.And by this they knew that the coming was nearOf the Prince foretold in prophecy. Thus wrote Henry Wadsworth…

From Charles Spurgeon’s sermon on “Peter’s Restoration” (“And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord”; Luke 22:60-61): “I like to think of…

The Who played Philly on Saturday night.  America may have the greatest rock poets in Dylan and The Boss, but England (Wales strangely absent, Del-Boy….) still has the greatest live rock band in the world.

Terry Eagleton’s review of Richard Dawkins’ latest book is well worth a read, demonstrating that it isn’t just orthodox Christians who struggle with RD’s portrayal of religion.  TE is one of the funniest and sharpest literary critics around, a former Catholic…

Richard Dawkins will not appreciate the math, but probablitity theorists now claim that it is 62% certain that God exists, according to yesterday’s The Times. Is this where we cite the text about God “laughing”?

Absent from the blog for a few days, I missed Del Boy’s question re. Weber. First, never heard of this Carl Maria character — unless he was the guy who stood in for David Lee Roth when he left the…

My friend Chun Lai recently traveled home to Hong Kong and Australia to minister to his family after the death of his father.  The invitation to participate in the funeral service posed some real challenges, as Chun explains: “The Lord…

Phil: Here’s the original lecture manuscript upon which Piper’s ETS lecture was based: Always Singing One Note–A Vernacular Bible: Why William Tyndale Lived and Died. Here is an excerpt: “It is ironic and sad that today supposedly avant-garde Christian writers…

As a sign of where political correctness has taken things in Britain, today’s The Times as this article on why three University Christian Unions in Britain are preparing to take legal action against university authorities for not allowing non-Christians to address their meetings…