The Moral Incoherance of Abortion
From John Piper: 1. Existing fetal homicide laws make a man guilty of manslaughter if he kills the baby in a mother’s womb (except in the case of abortion). 2. Fetal surgery is performed on babies in the womb to…
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The pastor and notoriety…
“Notoriety can be gained at once by just being singular, and setting up to know better than those around you. Everybody will talk about you at once, and you can impress yourself upon their memories by saying something very cutting…
Puffin’ the …
Kindle (or Ipad) users will be interested to see that Amazon have now released an e-version of Carl Trueman’s “The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind” (Moody) here for a buck and a half. Who said Carl wasn’t cheap?
Real Shame VS. Shameless Profiteering
Perhaps you have heard the news that Ted Haggard is going to have his own reality show on TLC. I know. Just when you think someone’s willingness to abase himself and his family can’t be any greater… Over at Ref21…
Profumo, Haggard, and Real Shame
Perhaps only a few American readers will know the name of John Profumo. He was a British conservative MP, and married the actress, Valerie Hobson (Dennis Price’s love interest in Kind Hearts and Coronets). In 1963, as Minister of War,…
Profumo, Haggard, and Real Shame
Perhaps only a few American readers will know the name of John Profumo. He was a British conservative MP, and married the actress, Valerie Hobson (Dennis Price’s love interest in Kind Hearts and Coronets). In 1963, as Minister of War,…
Congratulations Liam Goligher and Tenth Presbyterian Church
By now most of our readers will have heard that our own fellow-blogger here at Ref21, Laim Goligher, has received and accepted a call to the pulpit of Tenth Presbyterian Church. As part of the extended Tenth community, I am…
What price relevance?
By now, you’ve no doubt heard about the troubles afflicting the Crystal Cathedral. It is not everyday that a mega-church files for bankruptcy after all. Therefore it’s worth noting; not because of the sad details but because of the irony.…
On not allowing “a divine foot in the door”
Harvard’s Richard Lowentin quoted in the Jan. 9, 1997, New York Review of Books: We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to ful”ll many of…
Ex Nihilo
“Theistic evolution is a biblical and theological disaster.” So writes Dr. Al Mohler in the latest edition of magazine of Southern Seminary. The theme of the current edition is “Ex Nihilo,” or “out of nothing.” Check it out and pay…