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I am also wildly enthusiastic about this volume, hot off the press (Evangelical Press). As the picture says, its a volume by Joel Beeke on John’s epistles. Some dude called Derek Thomas blurbs on the front cover (too small to…

I may have mentioned this book before in these columns but there’s no harm in repeating my enthusiasm for this volume by Thabiti Anyabwile called The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors (Crossway).  It is a…

Paul Helm has posted an excellent little piece on what definitions do and don’t do. A few quotes: “Berkhof’s definition is not an attempt to replace the language of the Psalms or of any other language, or to be cleverer…

History is important; but the current distaste for history doesn’t fill one with much confidence that this kind of thing can be reversed. 

Having spent a jolly couple of days reading through pages and pages and pages of web-based Holocaust Denial while simultaneously gagging and preparing a chapter for a book on historical method, I confess to being totally depressed by the number…

As a loyal Philadelphian, I was more than a little pleased to see the design the U.S. Postal Service unveiled last week for its permanent stamp.  The cost of postage will continue to rise, I am sure, but this image…