Pastor’s Got a Gun
So I am driving home from my morning get-the-kids-to-school shuffle, and I hear a news blurb on the radio that Florida “pastor” Terry Jones was at it again, trying to burn a large quantity of copies of the Koran. Apparently…
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Jealous Preachers
Whilst reading Rick Phillips’ ‘Masculine Mandate‘ (which by the way has the greatest study question I’ve ever seen on page 158 ‘Why can’t dogs really be man’s best friend?’) I found a very helpful illustration from the life of the Baptist FB Meyer:…
A Great Spurgeon Saying
“A certain vainglorious party of Pretenders to intellect and culture tell us now that the old Puritanic faith is nearly extinct; there are only a few of us ignorant people who now hold the same truths as John Owen, John…
Banners, Bullies and That Philadelphia Sound
A couple of items. The Banner of Truth have just launched their new website. The US conference is also advertised. Actually involves a number of ministers you may never have heard of who minister in churches where they actually know…
Banners, Bullies and That Philadelphia Sound
A couple of items. The Banner of Truth have just launched their new website. The US conference is also advertised. Actually involves a number of ministers you may never have heard of who minister in churches where they actually know…
What’s the Difference Between Women Preaching and Women Blogging?
This is the essence, I believe, of a question that a commenter left on my last article. He asked, “Do you believe it is okay for a woman to think and write about theology, given she will also be read…
Longfield and Presbyterianism
It has been an excellent summer for books on the history of the Reformed and Presbyterian faith. John Halsey Wood and James Bratt have both offered fine treatments of Kuyper; D.G. Hart produced his long-awaited history of Calvinism; and now…
Longfield and Presbyterianism
It has been an excellent summer for books on the history of the Reformed and Presbyterian faith. John Halsey Wood and James Bratt have both offered fine treatments of Kuyper; D.G. Hart produced his long-awaited history of Calvinism; and now…
An Introduction to German Pietism
Douglas H. Shantz, An Introduction to German Pietism: Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, 520 pp. $32.00 “The ideologies and institutions of modernity are…the tangled continuation, development, and extension of late…
Our Make-Believe Parents: When Adam Becomes More Fiction than Fact
In Sunday School rooms across a wide spectrum of churches, you will find Bible storybooks that, around page one, display pictures of Adam and Eve, with illustrators using their best judgment on whether to use well-placed leaves, strategic cropping, or…