Month June 2011

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Reading Reflections:

Christians Get Depressed Too, David Murray (Reformation Heritage Books,2010) I have enjoyed listening to David Murray on his podcast with Tim Challies, The Connected Kingdom.  While I don’t follow regularly, I find myself drawn to Murray’s wisdom and humility in…

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A Most Surprising ARP Synod Meeting

I approached the 2011 meeting of the ARP General Synod with trepidation.  As I have argued here, the ARP Church has recently been in the throes of an ecclesiological crisis.  Fallout from the unsuccessful attempt to replace the existing Erskine…

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Ain’t NO Rest for the Wicked

So I was having one of those rare moments where I’m all alone driving.  That’s right: cool, thirty-something mom cruisen’ the highway in her minivan with the windows down—in search of a good song. I landed on a ditty by Cage the…

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The Vatican Files N. 3

Papa dixit.  The recent interview with Benedict XVI  [Editor’s Note:] This is the third of a series on Roman Catholicism in the 21st century. A new entry in the series should follow every three weeks]. If you were given the…

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On Listening to Thin Lizzy

(and reading Frank Schaeffer) As I read Frank Schaeffer’s latest book, I kept hearing the sound of Thin Lizzy’s `The Boys Are Back In Town’ playing in my head.  Why, I wondered, was I being haunted at this moment by…

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On Listening to Thin Lizzy

(and reading Frank Schaeffer) As I read Frank Schaeffer’s latest book, I kept hearing the sound of Thin Lizzy’s `The Boys Are Back In Town’ playing in my head.  Why, I wondered, was I being haunted at this moment by…

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Ralph Davis on church life

Ralph Davis is as good a preacher as it gets, if he writes it you should read it. I love the bones of the man. He was speaking in Australia recently where he was interviewed, you can read the whole thing here but…