Category Postcards from Palookaville

As this nation, if not the world (BBC2 clearing its schedules????), embarrasses itself in California this morning, it’s good to read somebody who nails the problem.

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…

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…

Three things of note: 1. The interview between Mark Dever and Ken Myers at 9Marks is worth a listen.  Myers is particularly interesting on blogs — he rarely reads them, and never bothers with the comment threads, given their status…

Three things of note: 1. The interview between Mark Dever and Ken Myers at 9Marks is worth a listen.  Myers is particularly interesting on blogs — he rarely reads them, and never bothers with the comment threads, given their status…

OK, I don’t point people to the National Review very often but, as I get older, balder, and descend further into the demented netherworld of MMAGdom, some of it does start to make more sense (especially now that I see…

OK, I don’t point people to the National Review very often but, as I get older, balder, and descend further into the demented netherworld of MMAGdom, some of it does start to make more sense (especially now that I see…

One of the striking things about popular representations of public executions in the eighteenth century is the contrast between the French and the English approach. French artists typically ignored the gathered crowd and focused in detail on the face of…

One of the striking things about popular representations of public executions in the eighteenth century is the contrast between the French and the English approach. French artists typically ignored the gathered crowd and focused in detail on the face of…

Our friends at Southern Seminary are set for a bumper summer relative to publishing.  First, there is the new biography by Tom Nettles of founding president, James Petigru Boyce.  Then there are two collections of early Southern Baptist writings from…