Buried in the back catalogue
Christian Focus Publications have often been the butt of my jokes and this post was originally going to be called ’15 Books CFP Don’t Want You to Know About’ but, having thought about it, even I realise that would be…
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Remembering Sermons
Decluttering. That’s what my husband and I set out to do over the long weekend. Sure, I’m pretty reliable for regular housecleaning, but closets and bookshelves, well, they are projects for me. And my desk is always a project. I…
Preaching & Piety: Are we Donatists?
What does the holiness of the minister have to do with the efficacy of the preached Word? Are we falling into a Donatist error (from Donatus who re-baptized clergy who had lapsed in the Great Persecution, A.D. 303-305) by insisting…
Political Affections
Joshua Hordern. Political Affections. Civic Participation and Moral Theology. Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 312 pp. $99.00 How might theology contribute to reflection upon the recognized democratic deficit of western political societies? How…
Political Affections
Joshua Hordern. Political Affections. Civic Participation and Moral Theology. Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 312 pp. $99.00 How might theology contribute to reflection upon the recognized democratic deficit of western political societies? How…
Mr Contrarian (CRT) does the Ice Bucket Challenge
A council member from – ahem – The Gospel Coalition sent me this today. We here at Reformation21 nominate the entire Gospel Coalition, all 1,000,000+ of you. Carl Trueman’s Ice-Bucket challenge: Some observations are in order: 1. We know Carl…
A Glimpse at the Mad Woman
If you would like to catch a glimpse at MoS’s notorious Mad Woman in the Attic, as well as hear Carl Trueman shriek like a girl, look no further: Dagnabit Carl, I don’t like to back down from a…
Disability Theology and Flannery O’Connor
Timothy J. Basselin. Flannery O’Connor: Writing a Theology of Disabled Humanity. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2013. xi +146 pp. $29.95 What does it mean to speak of disability? According to the World Health Organization, over 15% of the global…
Disability Theology and Flannery O’Connor
Timothy J. Basselin. Flannery O’Connor: Writing a Theology of Disabled Humanity. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2013. xi +146 pp. $29.95 What does it mean to speak of disability? According to the World Health Organization, over 15% of the global…
“Behold the blessèd Lamb of God”
L.M. (Eden) Behold the blessèd Lamb of God,Who for the world poured out his blood;He died and suffered on the treeThat men the grace of God might see. Behold the bleeding Sacrifice –Salvation at unmeasured price.He came to this dark…