Carl Trueman

In a seminar last week on Martin Luther, I commented that a theologian of glory could easily use the theology of cross for his own ends.  He would thereby utterly…

Our Man in Ulster has just brought this 2014 news story to my attention, about a woman charged with assault for taking meth while pregnant.  Setting aside the obvious legal…

Another evangelical megachurch congregation has come out in favour of same sex marriage.  This time it is GracePointe Church in Nashville, TN. The evangelical collapse is coming.   A set of…

One aspect of Thomas Oden’s life which is both admirable and perplexing is his denominational loyalty.  Oden is a United Methodist and it is clear from his autobiography that he…

As readers will know, this week MoS is focusing on Thomas Oden's autobiography, A Change of Heart.  As I have reviewed it for the January edition of First Things, I…

One of the striking features of Thomas Oden’s spiritual life is his expansive intellectual appetite, evidenced in both his reading and his writing.   From his early liberal passion for radical…

This week, the blog and podcast is going to focus on Thomas Oden, specifically his delightful memoir, A Change of Heart. Now, one of the key contributions of Thomas Oden…

The other evening over dinner, a young Roman Catholic friend asked me if I thought evangelicalism would hold firm on gay marriage.  I told him I thought a major collapse…

Todd brought this little gem to my attention yesterday: Mount Holyoke College has apparently canceled a performance of that pinnacle of Western literary achievement, 'The Vagina Monologues,' because it might…

Last week’s Malarkey business was sad.  Though the lad involved clearly did wrong, it did not seem to me that he had been motivated by greed, simply by a desire…