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I hate to break up the hilarity in which my good friends Messrs Trotter and Plectrum-Smith seem to be indulging, but I just spent a few moments looking at the webpage of a leading Emergent figure.

Matthew Bryant (Director of Church Relations) and our friend Niel Nielson (President) of Covenant College have just announced that the Rev. Aaron Messner has accepted its offer to become College Chaplain. Aaron will officially join Covenant on June 1, 2007.  …

Posted January 16, 2007 Dear Rodney Trotter/Nicholas ‘Don’t Call Me Nicky!’ Mauss, Thank you for bringing to my attention the great work of St. Osiander of Osbourne, (who incidentally was widely known for celebrating the Lord’s Day primarily at night,…

By popular demand I append more wisdom from every TR’s favourite spiritual mentor, Nicholas `Don’t call me Nicky!’ Mauss, the big pastor of that even bigger church in Montana. Such is the depth of his wisdom that, in a recent…

Stunning news in an artilce in January’s Reformed Man Today (RMT) magazine, pasted below:

This is the second installment in a series of occasional selections from Dave Shiflett’s Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity.  To prove his thesis, Mr. Shiflett must first prove that Americans are, in fact, fleeing liberal churches,…

If scoring is the criterion, then basketball is semi-Pelagian, at best.  For a truly Pelagian sport, one would have to consider the quintessentially English sport of cricket, which is much higher scoring than basketball, and where even the bowlers can manage…

I found myself in the invidious position of having to issue a clarification and apology for a theological analysis of an American “sport” (sic):