Month September 2010

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U2, Brutus my son

Well, if Liam can mark his opening day on the blog with links to the reactionary broadsheets, I’ll match him with one to a reactionary tabloid here. So Bono’s campaign for the poor is all about `raising awareness,’ not actually…

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When Papa Came to Call

Last week we had an important visitor to my patch in west London. He was visiting the oldest Roman Catholic College in England just round the corner from Pope’s Grotto – a pub named after Alexander Pope but quite appropriate,…

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A New Kind of Masculinity?

Al Mohler comments on the latest cover story of Newsweek: The most interesting portion of the Newsweek cover story concerns the home front. The authors admit that the “New Macho” is “a path to masculinity paved with girly jobs and…

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Advances in Christian Broadcasting…

From “Rodney Trotter”: The following memo has turned up, leaked from a well-known coalition/alliance of gospel types: Re: Christian Broadcasting In light of the cultural mandate (Gen. 1:28), and in reaction to the harsh, unloving and world-denying fundamentalism of a…

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No, Paul Levy does exist in his own right

This week, we welcome four new regular contributors to the Ref21 blog: Paul Levy, Liam Goligher, Gabriel Furher and Carlton Wynne. I should make it clear that none of these names are aliases for Carl Trueman. Paul and Liam are both gospel-centered,…

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Big Brother is just the beginning….

Paul’s reference to Big Brother is prescient.  The following memo has turned up, leaked from a well-known coalition/alliance of gospel types: Re: Christian Broadcasting In light of the cultural mandate (Gen. 1:28), and in reaction to the harsh, unloving and…