Posted January 16, 2007 Dear Rodney Trotter/Nicholas ‘Don’t Call Me Nicky!’ Mauss, Thank you for bringing to my attention the great work of St. Osiander of Osbourne, (who incidentally was widely known for celebrating the Lord’s Day primarily at night,…
By popular demand I append more wisdom from every TR’s favourite spiritual mentor, Nicholas `Don’t call me Nicky!’ Mauss, the big pastor of that even bigger church in Montana. Such is the depth of his wisdom that, in a recent…
Stunning news in an artilce in January’s Reformed Man Today (RMT) magazine, pasted below:
This is the second installment in a series of occasional selections from Dave Shiflett’s Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity. To prove his thesis, Mr. Shiflett must first prove that Americans are, in fact, fleeing liberal churches,…
If scoring is the criterion, then basketball is semi-Pelagian, at best. For a truly Pelagian sport, one would have to consider the quintessentially English sport of cricket, which is much higher scoring than basketball, and where even the bowlers can manage…
I found myself in the invidious position of having to issue a clarification and apology for a theological analysis of an American “sport” (sic):
I found myself in the invidious position of having to issue a clarification and apology for a theological analysis of an American “sport” (sic):
I found myself in the invidious position of having to issue a clarification and apology for a theological analysis of an American “sport” (sic):
One of the most important questions we ask prospective pastoral interns at Tenth Church is: “How do people grow spiritually?” The answer quickly reveals whether or not candidates are grace-oriented in their discipleship and also how well they understand the role…
Yesterday my father (Leland Ryken, Professor of English, Wheaton College) sent me a thought-provoking exchange from John Steinbeck’s East of Eden: “If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule–a great…
