Month December 2006

Our own Derek Thomas and Dr. Paul Jones (an Alliance Council member who serves organist and music director at Philadelphia’s Tenth Presbyterian Church) have collaborated on a new Christmas carol.  The full text and music will be posted soon, but…

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…