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Check back later today for a new edition of reformation21. It includes articles by Carl Trueman and Michael Travers on the Psalms and much more.
Derek Thomas
Sneaker Seeker Sensitive Churches
I’ve been preaching through Acts and have been making some references to the “meat offered to idols” issue. And it crossed my mind, “This has some bearing on sneakers and…
Resurgency
It would be in poor taste to point out to Carl, especially on his birthday, that the headlines on the BBC news site this afternoon reads, “Resurgent Wales see off England”…
Weather warning
Jeremy Smith’s article in this issue (“Petrolium Pundits“) has provoked a stormy protest. See “We Get Letters” page.
Saint Patrick was Welsh
Many scholars assert, de rigeur, that Saint Patrick (Patricius or Padrig) was born in the still Welsh-speaking Northern Kingdom of Strathclyde of Romano-Brythonic stock around 385 AD at a place called Bannavem…
Cézanne to Picasso
Just back from a few days in Chicago. Managed a quick tour of the “Cézanne to Picasso” exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago. Took the “Admission Free on Tuesday”…
Men’s Health and Mortification
Rodders, Del Boy sent me an SMS from the local barber’s shop. He’s been reading that monthly journal for men called Men’s Health (December 2006)— never seen it myself, you…
Meilaender unimpressed by Wright
Gilbert Meilaender, who holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University, scorches N. T. Wright in the current issue of First Things (Februray 2007). For once,…
William Wilberforce
My wife and I went to see the Wilberforce movie last (it had all the feel of a Baptist Prayer Meeting inside the theater with folks wearing suits and ties and…
The “Jesus Tomb”
The tiresome story of the “Tomb of Jesus” rolls on, proving once again the eagerness with which unbelief will grasp at anything to believe a lie. Informed responses can be…