I try to read The Briefing each month (now that it’s free online). In all honesty it drives me round the bend. It’s Australian, which is bad enough, but it’s also pragmatism gone mad.The usual things come up every few months: ‘Worship…
John Piper, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian (Crossway 2011, 295 pp.) There are fewer things more distressing than racial division within the Christian church. Yet racial division has plagued the church from the beginning. Whether one considers the apparent antagonism…
The former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling (he of the white hair and black eyebrows), has written a memoir of his time at No.11 Downing Street. It’s called Back from the Brink and provides a fascinating insight into…
The former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling (he of the white hair and black eyebrows), has written a memoir of his time at No.11 Downing Street. It’s called Back from the Brink and provides a fascinating insight into…
The announcement of the launch of the Apple iPad3 was greeted with predictable positive promotion in the media and the usual level of hysteria among the shopping public which we have come to expect. When Steve Jobs died last year,…
The announcement of the launch of the Apple iPad3 was greeted with predictable positive promotion in the media and the usual level of hysteria among the shopping public which we have come to expect. When Steve Jobs died last year,…
One thing that stinks about moving to a new town is that you are not familiar with the back roads. Matt and I have lived in the panhandle of WV now for going on eight years, and we are still…
“What is the nature of petitionary prayer? It is in essence rebellion – rebellion against the world in its fallenness, the absolute and undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal…Petitionary prayer only flourishes where there is a…
From a letter by John Newton to a young man considering a call into the ordained ministry You have, doubtless, often anticipated in your own mind the nature of the service to which you are now called, and made it…
Alexander Somerville (1813-1889) was a close friend of Robert Murray M’Cheyne. They went to school and university together. As divinity students, they met for the study of the Bible using both the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament,…
