I’ve been slow to respond to Phil’s blog about being at Eschenbach’s performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony, “The Resurrection.” Mainly, I have to confess, just sheer envy! I daren’t begin my tragic tale of life in Mississippi! But he raises…
You heard it here first: a group of baptist leaders gathered at Southern Baptist Seminary have assessed all the evidence and decided that — wait for it — believer’s baptism is the only biblical approach. See the shock headline at,…
The following lectures were delivered in September 2006 by Carl Trueman at the Theology for All Conference in the UK: Theology and Everyday Life: The Reformation and Beyond Contemporary Challenges to Theology and Church Life What should a theological church…
Phil’s blog got me thinking about the whole issue of women in Reformed and conservative evangelical circles in general. On the whole, I don’t think the church provides the kind of environment that helps. Two examples: in Britain, certain denominations don’t…
Phil’s blog got me thinking about the whole issue of women in Reformed and conservative evangelical circles in general. On the whole, I don’t think the church provides the kind of environment that helps. Two examples: in Britain, certain denominations don’t…
Phil’s blog got me thinking about the whole issue of women in Reformed and conservative evangelical circles in general. On the whole, I don’t think the church provides the kind of environment that helps. Two examples: in Britain, certain denominations don’t…
Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (“Resurrection”) was played at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center last night to rapturous applause. I am sorry that Derek Thomas couldn’t have been here for the performance, which was welcomed with four curtain calls…
“A creed and a grave never did equal the life of anything” — Wendell Berry
At last week’s Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology (in, of all places, Philadelphia), Don Carson shared a telling anecdote from a colleague involved with the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship. Women on campus face three crushing cultural pressures: first, to get all…
I hear a rumour that disgraced former New Jersey Governor, Jim McGreevey, who left office in a gay scandal, is pursuing ordination in the episcopal church. As if ordaining practising homosexuals wasn’t bad enough, ECUSA now stoops to the new…
