The real drama…
Official Christianity, of late years, has been having what is known as ‘a bad press.’ We are constantly assured that the churches are empty because preachers insist too much upon doctrine – ‘dull dogma,’ as people call it. The fact…
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Macleod and Pitch Forks
Ian Clary has alerted me to the fact that Don Macleod has posted his commencement lecture on Christian biographers here. And John Starke over at the Gospel Coalition has expressed his willingness to do the administrative work necessary for organising…
Macleod and Pitch Forks
Ian Clary has alerted me to the fact that Don Macleod has posted his commencement lecture on Christian biographers here. And John Starke over at the Gospel Coalition has expressed his willingness to do the administrative work necessary for organising…
In the Throes of Ecclesiological Crisis
The Trials and Tribulations of the ARP Church, Part 2 Last year about this time I wrote an article for this website entitled “Whither or Wither?: The Trials and Tribulations of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.” In it I identified…
Emoticonoclasm
Just a note on emoticons. You shouldn’t use them: 1. Real men don’t use them. In fact, not even Paul Levy uses them. They are thus part of the feminization of the church.2. People who have a decent command of…
Emoticonoclasm
Just a note on emoticons. You shouldn’t use them: 1. Real men don’t use them. In fact, not even Paul Levy uses them. They are thus part of the feminization of the church.2. People who have a decent command of…
Writing on Athanasius: A General Note on Hagiography
Hagiography – the uncritical and adulatory description of the life of a hero of the faith – is probably the most common form of popular Christian biographical writing and probably the most useful in a strictly pragmatic, results-oriented way. A.…
Writing on Athanasius: A General Note on Hagiography
Hagiography – the uncritical and adulatory description of the life of a hero of the faith – is probably the most common form of popular Christian biographical writing and probably the most useful in a strictly pragmatic, results-oriented way. A.…
Schizophrenics, Cambridge Students and the glorious Swans
I have had the strangest week. On Friday I took the funeral of a very good friend who was a schizophrenic. I’m not sure whether he really was and he would always say to me he was in two minds…
No unimportant doctrines
“Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.”– J. Gresham Machen Take time to read Al Mohler’s helpful essay A Call for Theological Triage and Christian Maturity.