Summer Reading
Summer’s a time to catch up on reading! Seminary professors read? And sharing with the public what I’m reading is a dangerous thing, I know, but I thought I would…
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Welcome Elliott!
I had thought the worst! Had Tony “The Gent” got to Elliott in some dark street in Chicago? But no! He is alive and well. Good to hear from you…
Pot pourri
To Tony “The Gent” Pinnochio: No one was available to talk to, and Carl will have to pass on your messages for a few days. Just be nice to him…
A Message from Del Boy
Del Boy has also been excluded from the Ref21 site, but he asked me to pass on this reply: Gordon Bennet, if you ask me, that Thomas geezer doesn’t know…
The Monstrous Regiment
Ligon, me too. There is a direct hermeneutical line from the denial of Jesus’ maleness as central to his incarnational imaging of his Father in heaven and the trend for egalitarianism.…
No gay bishops here
The PCA General Assembly is predictably boring. No cat fights between lesbian clergy handing out Hershes Kisses and outraged conservatives; no overtures banning the production, advertising and promotion of alcoholic…
The Fun of Being Presbyterian
There are advantages to being Presbyterian! It’s called General Assemblies. True, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In America is like no other. More about schmoozing than ecclesiastical politics.…
Conjuring Tricks?
It must be twenty years since the Bishop of Durham (not N. T. Wright, but his predecessor) called the resurrection a “conjuring trick with bones.” Scripps Howard News Service together…
Brave New World?
posted by Derek Thomas Harvard University has announced it will begin cloning human embryos.The scientists say that they plan to harvest stem cells in the hope that they might be able to…
Puritan library In Grand Rapids
Posted by Derek Thomas I spent the last day in Grand Rapids, at Joel Beeke’s seminary–The Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary–buried in their fascinating puritan library. It is one of the…