Inheritance of Tears
This book is long overdue. I have never suffered through the tragedy of a miscarriage, but a number of women I love have. I am so glad that Jessalyn Hutto has written a book for all those who have been…
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Round and About
Christianity Today seems eager to rescue the good reputation of Margaret Sanger and show us the softer side of eugenics. If you don’t read Ray Bradburry you are impoverishing yourself. Check out this piece on Bradburry’s moral imagination. Does anyone…
Christian Satire at its best
In the past I’ve been hard on Australians, minimalism and biblical theology gone totally mad but there are times when you have to take your hat off to them. This is one of those occasions and I want to give…
Calvin contra Rome on Scripture (Part 1)
For an explanation of what follows, see the previously posted introduction to this series. Calvin discerned four basic claims in Rome’s teaching on Scripture as discovered in the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent. The first claim was comprised…
Seven Marks of a Healthy Church
As the church in the West faces social marginalization unknown for over 1500 years, the question of the marks of the church, those identifying features which she possesses, is likely to become more pressing. Standard Reformed approaches tend to offer…
The Theological Significance for Laughter
Conclusions can often be unimpressive. But this is not the case in Carl Trueman’s latest book, Luther on the Christian Life. One thing that stuck out to me while I was reading this excellent book was that there is a…
The murky world of missions
The American missionaries that I work with are the best; I wouldn’t swap any of them. They’ve served us so well and helped us, strengthened our congregation and enabled us to reach people we wouldn’t have been able to reach without…
Calvin contra Rome on Scripture (Introduction)
I intend to offer, over the next several weeks, a four part series on Calvin’s response to Rome’s doctrine of Scripture as discovered in the fourth session of the Council of Trent. It’s my impression that very few Protestants today…
To Enjoy, To Use, and To Be Used: Augustine on Everything
In the opening chapters of On Christian Teaching (I.1-5), Augustine argues that everything that exists can be divided into two groups: things to be used and things to be enjoyed. “To enjoy a thing,” he proposes, “is to rest with…
Something positive
Jeremiah Burroughs, in the book Gospel Conversation, tells us that “the gospel of Christ in general is this”: It is the good tidings that God has revealed concerning Christ…. More largely it is this: As all mankind was lost in…