Category Postcards from Palookaville

Rev Bryan Follis of Belfast kindly sent me a copy of his new book, Truth with Love: The Apologetics of Francis Schaeffer (Crossway). I was very moved (convicted?) by the conclusion of the book:

Just finishing Bob Letham’s brilliant and accessible Through Western Eyes: Eastern Orthodoxy — a Reformed Perspective (Christian Focus).  Typical of Bob’s style — awesome learning, accessible writing, and a fine critical exposition of the history and theology of Orthodoxy which…

Just finishing Bob Letham’s brilliant and accessible Through Western Eyes: Eastern Orthodoxy — a Reformed Perspective (Christian Focus).  Typical of Bob’s style — awesome learning, accessible writing, and a fine critical exposition of the history and theology of Orthodoxy which…

Lunchtime conversations with minister friends in London indicates that the storm about Steve Chalke and penal substitution rumbles on in the UK. There are dark rumours of a certain well-known Christian book chain boycotting a popular presentation of the doctrine;…

Lunchtime conversations with minister friends in London indicates that the storm about Steve Chalke and penal substitution rumbles on in the UK. There are dark rumours of a certain well-known Christian book chain boycotting a popular presentation of the doctrine;…

Back in the UK I hear rumours that a certain well-known Welsh Baptist minister who read a piece I wrote in Themelios on J I Packer and the Anglo-Welsh evangelical crisis of 1966, has been heard to lament loudly at…

Back in the UK I hear rumours that a certain well-known Welsh Baptist minister who read a piece I wrote in Themelios on J I Packer and the Anglo-Welsh evangelical crisis of 1966, has been heard to lament loudly at…

Today I picked up a copy of a new book by my old pal, Neil MacDonald, with the fascinating title Metaphysics and the God of Israel  (Baker).  Neil approaches theology from a broadly Barthian perspective, though this book engages with…

Today I picked up a copy of a new book by my old pal, Neil MacDonald, with the fascinating title Metaphysics and the God of Israel  (Baker).  Neil approaches theology from a broadly Barthian perspective, though this book engages with…

I found this link on Dave Strain’s website to another old pal, David `Robbo’ Robertson, on YouTube.  The meek shall inherit the earth; but Dundee ministers will sell their books on YouTube.  Frightening enough to have Dave R’s blog out…