Category Postcards from Palookaville

Del, Seems that the last few paras of my reflection on Beckwith are missing.  No — I don’t announce my own conversion to Rome in them; but the article currently ends in mid air.  Just can’t get the staff these…

Phil’s blog got me thinking about the whole issue of women in Reformed and conservative evangelical circles in general.   On the whole, I don’t think the church provides the kind of environment that helps.  Two examples: in Britain, certain denominations don’t…

Phil’s blog got me thinking about the whole issue of women in Reformed and conservative evangelical circles in general.   On the whole, I don’t think the church provides the kind of environment that helps.  Two examples: in Britain, certain denominations don’t…

My friend, the modest, quiet, peaceable master of understatement, Rev David Robertson, has posted an interesting article on the dire situation of ministry in modern Scotland, particularly from a Free Church of Scotland pespective.  Not all will agree with every…

My friend, the modest, quiet, peaceable master of understatement, Rev David Robertson, has posted an interesting article on the dire situation of ministry in modern Scotland, particularly from a Free Church of Scotland pespective.  Not all will agree with every…

What profit?  Here’s a few ideas:

What profit?  Here’s a few ideas:

A noteworthy book that’s just come out in English translation: Regis Debray’s Praised Be Our Lords: The Autobiography (Verso).  Debray, a student of Althusser, a companion of Che Guevara in Bolivia, and an advisor to the Mitterand government, is an interesting…

A noteworthy book that’s just come out in English translation: Regis Debray’s Praised Be Our Lords: The Autobiography (Verso).  Debray, a student of Althusser, a companion of Che Guevara in Bolivia, and an advisor to the Mitterand government, is an interesting…

With the great demographic shift to the southern hemisphere in terms of evangelical Christianity, the issue of listening to the voices of brothers and sisters from these newly significant areas is a pressing one.  But I want to raise some…