Philip Ryken

King Tut has returned–this time to Philadelphia. Having first been rediscovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, and having toured the world in the most popular exhibition ever…

A reformation21 reader has written with a helpful comment on First Commandment and Second Commandment Christians, so called: “Years ago Dr. D Martin Lloyd-Jones warned about the subtle danger of…

Arkansas Governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is quoted in this week’s TIME magazine as saying, “I’m a ‘grace’ Christian, not a ‘law’ Christian. The Second Commandment–do unto others–is the…

Educator Allan Shedlin has recently conducted a series of 100 interviews documenting what fathers can learn from being fathers.  According to Shedlin, being a dad — reminds fathers of what…

Don Hall is our poet laureate.  A recent edition of his collected poems includes a lyric for these pluralistic times.  Hall writes: The times are propitious for fake religions.Today let’s decide…

I was deeply blessed by the corporate worship at Chongshin Theological Seminary (near Seoul).  Services were typically led by students, although sometimes also by faculty.  Korean prayer times are intense,…

From Charles Spurgeon’s sermon “Christ the Cure for Troubled Hearts”: “I hear another one say, ‘But suppose I have committed the unpardonable sin;’ to which I answer, ‘But suppose you…

The reputation that the Korean church has for Christian hospitality is well deserved.  From the moment that I arrived in Seoul, I was generously cared for in every way: warm…

I have only recently returned from a week-long trip to Chongshin Seminary in South Korea.  Incidentally, I regret my sudden and unannounced disappearance from the blog — it is almost…

The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has chided his conservative Anglican bishops in Africa and elsewhere for openly criticizing the U. S. Episcopal Church’s acceptance of openly…