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Derelics?

So the Catholics have their relics and we have our…. commemorative volumes?  How long before John Calvin Soap on A Rope?   A signed photo of Del at the Reformers’ wall?  Would that qualify as a Derelic, I wonder? Del’s comments…

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Summer Fiction

I’m really enjoying Bernard Cornwell’s “The Winter King” which is volume one in a this-worldly retelling of the Arthur legend. Cornwell does historical fiction right.

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Calvin500 (2)

Another day of lectures and sermons: Evidently, Calvinists (the ones present at the Calvin500 celebrations) are prepared to hear three sermons in succession from 7-10 pm! Tonight, Phil Ryken gave an outstanding sermon in 1 Corinthians 16:5-11, illustrating Paul’s constraint…

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Calvin500 -(1)

Day 1 of the Calvin 500.  Sinclair Ferguson opened the proceedings preaching from Calvin’s pulpit (not really; that one fell to pieces and the present one is nineteenth century but in the same spot). His text was Philippians 3:8-12 in…

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