Philip Ryken

Previous posts have mourned the passing of Al Groves, who taught Old Testament at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia.  I was blessed by a letter Al wrote to his friends, to…

Lisa (full disclosure: a woman to whom I have been married for 19 years) received the following email this week from a distant friend: “Tell your husband that he is…

In personal response to Derek’s question: by celebrating their wives with tangible expressions of matrimonial affection.  But I hope it’s not a day too late to sound a cautionary note arising…

From Makoto Fujimura’s “Refractions” essay on a New York exhibit of letters from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Here Fujimura is reflecting on the declaration of Jesus that wars will…

It is good to see John Tweeddale introducing the work of Richard Muller — a world-class scholar who has done much to rehabilitate a healthy understanding of Reformed theology after…

From one of Makoto Fujimura’s “Refractions” essays, writing in response to the Amish school girl who tried to offer her life for her classmates, with the implications for artists: “Here,…

More material from Makoto Fujimura’s essay “Operation Homecoming: Epistles of Injury.” As he read letters from soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, Fujimura was reminded of a bloody event on American…

A close friend and ministry colleague reported to me today that the well-known Beijingchurch activist Hua Huiqi and his 76-year-old mother were attacked and woundedby the police in the morning…

As I may have mentioned in a previous post, Makoto Fujimura is a brilliant New York artist whose deeply Christian work represents a synthesis of ancient Japanese techniques with Western…

Especially since we have a feature on Charles Spurgeon in this month’s issue of Reformation21, it seems like a good time to quote from that worthy London Baptist once again. …