Category Postcards from Palookaville

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You know things are bad….

….when politicians are behaving with the same honour and integrity as we have come to expect from certain church leaders.  Not using `theological leverage’ or being `relationally mobile’ with their best friend’s wife; merely `misspeaking’ apparently.  See here.

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John L. Mackay

The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland today voted to call Professor John L. Mackay as the new Principal of Free Church College, to succeed Donald Macleod.   Ref21 sends its congratulations to Prof. Mackay and its best…

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John L. Mackay

The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland today voted to call Professor John L. Mackay as the new Principal of Free Church College, to succeed Donald Macleod.   Ref21 sends its congratulations to Prof. Mackay and its best…

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The Apple and the Fall

The news yesterday, when not preoccupied with the Icelandic volcano, was buzzing with reports that an Apple employee had left his new iPhone (as yet unreleased to the public) in a bar where its significance had not been missed.  Was…

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The Apple and the Fall

The news yesterday, when not preoccupied with the Icelandic volcano, was buzzing with reports that an Apple employee had left his new iPhone (as yet unreleased to the public) in a bar where its significance had not been missed.  Was…

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The Pope and Polanski

British writer Dominic Lawson has an interesting article comparing the situation of the Pope with that of Roman Polanski here.   What he observes fits nicely with the thesis that the postmodern world is one of aesthetics (forget the `linguistic…

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The Pope and Polanski

British writer Dominic Lawson has an interesting article comparing the situation of the Pope with that of Roman Polanski here.   What he observes fits nicely with the thesis that the postmodern world is one of aesthetics (forget the `linguistic…

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A Few Good Books

It’s been a good month or two for books.  In addition to Kevin DeYoung’s great little devotional commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, The Good News We Almost Forgot (Moody), there is also J.I. Packer and Gary A. Parrett’s learned and…