Month December 2012

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The People’s Theologian and Heart of the Gospel

Iain D. Campbell and Malcolm Maclean, eds., The People’s Theologian:  Essays in Honour of Donald Macleod. Ross-shire: Christian Focus Mentor Imprint, 2011. Iain D. Campbell, ed., Heart of the Gospel: Meditations on Christ and the Christian Life, Ross-shire: Christian Focus, 1995.  One day early…

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28 Words

Lee ‘Iron Man’ Gatiss has penned a riposte to Ref21’s own poet laureate There once was a Baptist named Walker Who was quite the inordinate talker But his poems are fine Ancient rhyming sublime His attack on poor Levy –…

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Sacred Bond

Sacred Bond, Michael G. Brown and Zach Keele (Reformed Fellowship, 2012) Sometimes I feel like some of my family and friends start tuning out when I begin throwing the “covenant” word around. It isn’t one that the Baptist churches I grew…

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A Christian Perspective on The Newtown Shooting

This past Friday, a twenty-year-old man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut with loaded weapons and brutally murdered twenty-six people. A majority of the victims were kindergarteners. Wickedness to this degree takes one’s breath away. The otherwise peaceful…

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A Christian Perspective on The Newtown Shooting

This past Friday, a twenty-year-old man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut with loaded weapons and brutally murdered twenty-six people. A majority of the victims were kindergarteners. Wickedness to this degree takes one’s breath away. The otherwise peaceful…

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One last Christmas gift idea

Here is an interesting gift idea for that librarian, IT helpline operator or otherwise sartorially-challenged person in your life.   Help them become one of the Beautiful People this Christmas. Comparing American evangelicalism to the world is often a bit…