Here’s the latest from Baptist Press: “Jimmy Jackson, pastor of Whitesburg Baptist Church in Huntsville, Ala., and Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., advanced to a runoff for first vice-president this evening at the Southern…
Just moments ago, Alliance Council member Mark Dever was nominated to serve as the First Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention. The vote is going on now. We’ll know something soon. Watch this space.
Baptist Press (BP) has produced a nice piece on the Al Mohler-Paige Patterson dialogue on Calvinism and evangelism You can read it here. As the title suggests, BP reports a desire that this issue not unnecessarily divide Baptists. That is actually…
This morning at the Pastors’ Conference prior to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention [SBC] (the annual cooperative gathering of the largest Protestant family of churches in the English-speaking world) in Greensboro, North Carolina, Alliance Council member Al…
Xavier Pickett is blogging on a recent Washington Post study on black men. He’s asking some significant questions about the role of the church in the area of the formation of Christian manhood that are applicable to all of us,…
posted by Derek Thomas Harvard University has announced it will begin cloning human embryos.The scientists say that they plan to harvest stem cells in the hope that they might be able to fight blood diseases like leukaemia and diabetes. In this Huxlian scenario,…
Well, we’ve arrived at the date. Wonder what they were thinking in Europe on June 6, 1006? Whatever the answer, Kim Riddlebarger’s new book The Man of Sin: Uncovering the Truth about the AntiChrist (Baker) should be a rewarding read.
Another subtitle should be added to this book, thus reading: Hagar, Sarah, and Their Children: Feminist Perspective. The seven women writers–Jewish, Christian and Muslim seek to focus on Hagar, Sarah, Ishmael and Isaac. In the preface, the editors make it…
The theology of Richard Baxter has an intriguing complexity to it. Baxter has been described by his opponents as a Calvinist, an Amyraldian, an Arminian, a Roman Catholic and even as a Socinian. As a result many have simply resorted…
Posted by Derek Thomas I spent the last day in Grand Rapids, at Joel Beeke’s seminary–The Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary–buried in their fascinating puritan library. It is one of the finest in the country, I should imagine. What with Calvin…
