Derek Thomas

An Anglical priest has, according to The Times “decoded” Charles Wesley’s 1,000 page diary written in code and kept at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, England. Among the “secrets”…

Couldn’t resist posting this light hearted cameo of things to come when the Olympics comes to East London in 2012, the home of ping-pong. Here. Carl, wipe that tear from…

Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, has compared active gay relationships to marriage in the sight of God, refuting that it is sinful and, in private correspondence, declared his hope that…

A campaign to place the advertisement, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and get on with your life” on London buses failed because subcribers failed to come up with…

Two recent additions to the Van Til corpus have been published by P&R Publishing. Both volumes have now been annotated and provide for the reader explanations and definitions of concepts,…

  Evangelical Press have launched a book written by John Keddie celebrating the life and testimony of Eric Liddell in time for the China Oympics. The picture shows the Chinese…

A week in Peru and an entire week teaching systematic theology (39 hrs of lectures in five days) has left me short of breath. Both have been exhilarating in ways…

I asked Tim Challies for a list of summer reading:   You asked me to talk a bit about my summer reading, so here goes. My reading tends to fall…

I asked our good friend Alistair Begg what he was reading this summer:   1. “Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics” by Graeme Goldsworthy. This is Goldsworthy at his comprehensive best. A terrific help…