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Social network—that’s the new word for friends. Well, it’s not a word. It’s a target market. A status. A collection of profiles and updates. Sure, there are many benefits to having a “social network” in this day and age. But…
On Media and Messages
A few years ago, I was on a panel discussing the Puritans. A member of the audience asked if I could provide `a few bullet points’ to summarise Puritan theology. My mind immediately went to those passages of John Owen…
On Media and Messages
A few years ago, I was on a panel discussing the Puritans. A member of the audience asked if I could provide `a few bullet points’ to summarise Puritan theology. My mind immediately went to those passages of John Owen…
What Goes Up Must Have Come Down
Recent online debates over the proper pastoral use of biblical commands in the lives of believers have left me a bit bewildered. Apparently, some would see these commands merely as descriptions of the Christian’s deficiencies, the spiritual equivalent of a…
Book Review:
7 Toxic Ideas Polluting Your Mind, Anthony Selvaggio (P & R, 2011) Have you seen the foot-pads people are buying these days to detox their bodies? Maybe you have some of that special tea that is supposed to help you…
Tullian Tchividjian, Jesus+Nothing=Everything
Even before the book came out, Jesus + Nothing = Everything had the perfect formula for a popular book: a catchy title that “just sounds right” (p. 25), an author with an intriguingly unique name (Tullian Tchividjian, pronounced cha-vi-jin), his…
Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics–Abridged in One Volume, John Bolt (ed.)
John Bolt accepted the unenviable challenge of editing an abridged volume of Herman Bavinck’s magnum opus, the Reformed Dogmatics. While Bavinck’s magisterial work encompasses four volumes, Dr. Bolt was required to select the most germane sections of these four volumes,…
Always Ready
Editor’s Note: We are excited to welcome Dr. K. Scott Oliphint to the reformation21 blog. Dr. Oliphint is the professor of apologetics and systematic theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He is the author of numerous books, including his…
Allergic to Argument
Stephen Prothero, world religion prof at Boston University, not an evangelical Christian, offers an interesting observation on our generation’s reluctance to engage in serious, but respectful disagreement about religion. Having said that he works hard to foster “respectful arguments” in his…