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Reformed Christians are heirs to some powerful rallying cries, not all of which start with “sola”.  One weighty such slogan from the seventeenth century is semper reformanda, a key tenet in the Reformed understanding.   It is often translated as “reformed and always reforming”…

[Editor’s note] This is the first in a series of Christmas-related postings by Carl Trueman. Several will come in this series during the month of December. Not with a Bang but a Whimper While enough of a Puritan to be…

Ouch! The things Christians once got up to! Think, for instance, of old Simeon, the once-ballyhooed guru of the sixth-century Holy Fool movement. Not content with rubbing mustard into the eyes of the partially blind in mock ‘healing’ ceremonies, he…

Ouch! The things Christians once got up to! Think, for instance, of old Simeon, the once-ballyhooed guru of the sixth-century Holy Fool movement. Not content with rubbing mustard into the eyes of the partially blind in mock ‘healing’ ceremonies, he…

I felt like a kid in a candy store at this year’s Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) annual meeting held in Atlanta, GA.  Deeply discounted commentaries, well-known biblical scholars, bible college friends, and discussion about justification–what more could a bible nerd…

I felt like a kid in a candy store at this year’s Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) annual meeting held in Atlanta, GA.  Deeply discounted commentaries, well-known biblical scholars, bible college friends, and discussion about justification–what more could a bible nerd…

A word to all you marathon runners, artists, cake bakers!  You think you’re hard done by try having bad grammar and spelling. I’m like a leper in reformed community.