I recently got locked out of my house and spent the morning in our local greasy spoon, ‘The Hanwell Cafe’, and the afternoon in our local pub, ‘The White Hart’, affectionately known in the area as ‘The Dripping Blade’. It’s an…
A few days ago I was contacted by an American brother who had recently received an email inviting him to preach at a conference in London. The email, as many do, lacked a little coherence, but was addressed directly to…
I’ve kind of had a theme song going for this baseball and softball season—99 Shades of Crazy, by JJ Grey and Mofro. No, it’s not Christian, and it has a bad word in it. But the title fits me lately.…
In a world where, no matter how big the issue, the panjandrums of the parachurch tell us we should all just agree to differ, T. David Gordon is a one man oasis of wisdom. Over at the online journal,Second Nature,…
In a world where, no matter how big the issue, the panjandrums of the parachurch tell us we should all just agree to differ, T. David Gordon is a one man oasis of wisdom. Over at the online journal,Second Nature,…
Peter J. Leithart, Between Babel and Beast (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012) 200 pp. $24.00. ISBN 978-1-60899-817-3 (pbk.). Peter J. Leithart has established himself as a leading evangelical and Reformed voice on a dizzying array of subjects: just within the…
ii. God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men, which are, in anything, contrary to his Word; or beside it, if matters of faith, or worship. So that, to…
You may well have heard the horror stories about people who overlooked a small lump or growth somewhere on their body, and who kept overlooking it, sometimes ignorantly, but sometimes wilfully, wishing it would just go away, finally heading to…
There’s a lot of growing going on in my house these days. I’m at that strange stage of parenting where I’m painfully realizing that my job is to help my kids to not need me. That’s the goal, right? As…
A couple of items have been brought to my attention. Over at First Thoughts, trans-Tiberian Ref21 reader, David Mills, offers some thoughts on J. G. Machen, inspired by D.G. Hart. Worth reading as are, unusually for a comment open blog,…
