Derek Thomas

In the continued coverage of the decision of the Church of Scotland to appoint an openly gay minister, our friend, David Robertson, editor of the Monthly Record (the official magazine…

Day 5: and more sermons: Ted Donnelly with a superlative exposition of the closing verses of Romans 8 (if you can get a hold of this sermon you should); Hywel…

Phil Ryken trying to be me outside St. Pierre Cathedral, Geneva.       Day 4 and 3 more sermons: Geoff Thomas on election, Joel Beeke on the church and…

(Ligon Duncan preaching in St. Pierre Cathedral, Geneva)   Three more sermons today: Steve Lawson on Galatians 1:6-10, an uncompromising call to defend the gospel against all detractors after the…

Another day of lectures and sermons: Evidently, Calvinists (the ones present at the Calvin500 celebrations) are prepared to hear three sermons in succession from 7-10 pm! Tonight, Phil Ryken gave…

Day 1 of the Calvin 500.  Sinclair Ferguson opened the proceedings preaching from Calvin’s pulpit (not really; that one fell to pieces and the present one is nineteenth century but…

David Robertson, editor of the Free Church Monthly Record and minister of St. Peter’s Free Church, Dundee, has written an editorial (to be published in the July edition) in which…

Tim Keller and Ligon Duncan debated the issue of women and the deaconate at this year’s PCA General Assembly in Orlando. Speaking as someone who was there amd heard it,…

Our friend Martin Downes, has written a fascinating volume comprised of interviews with (among others) several members of the Ref21 blog team (Ligon Duncan, Sean Lucas, Carl Trueman, Iain D.…

Ref21 readers might be interested to read (obviously well edited) reports of a speech made by a member of Duke Street Church ( in South West London), a high court judge…