Month December 2006

On the advice of his close friend Nicky `Call me Nicholas’ Mauss, Dutch pastor of a large church in Montana, Carl Trueman has indeed turned himself in for counselling.  He is currently at a secret location under care of the Rev…

Here (in the last post I will be making until the new year) is the last installment of a series on an exceptionally effective evangelist from Syndey, Australia: “Well, eight months later, that Crystal Palace Baptist pastor was ministering in…

Thanks Phil. We arrived back from a family funeral last night to be met by Ligon at the airport. Now, why did he remind me of Father Christmas? Strangely, I had been been reading Dr. Mark Garcia’s fine piece in…

Oh, my.  I seem to be being struck off all manner of Xmas card lists which, thankfully, I was probably never on in the first place. Two clarifications (at the risk of repeating myself) and a further comment: 1. I did…

That London preacher, six months later, flew to do a convention for 5,000 Indian missionaries in a remote corner of northeastern India. And at the end, the Indian missionary in charge, a humble little man took him home to his…

In an article entitled “An Atheist Can Believe in Christmas,” Randy Kennedy asks how some prominent atheists are (or are not) celebrating the holidays.  It turns out that Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation) has a Christmas tree up…

My comments on the late RJR have stimulated some feedback.