Jonathan Merritt reports that evangelical ethicist David Gushee is now pro-LGBT. The move will no doubt be greeted by some as a sign of cultural capitulation and a rejection of biblical authority. Others will regard it as a hopeful sign…
This week's podcast is up, in which the Ref Pack talk about the greatest Reformer of them all. Further, anyone interested in catching a live videocast of a recording of the show, when we will be interviewing Dr Kent Hughes…
Yesterday, Jon Master and I headed north to New York to hear Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles Chaput, deliver the 2014 Erasmus Lecture, ‘Strangers in a Strange Land.’ As a Protestant, I was interested to hear first-hand a Roman…
A couple of weeks ago, I commended Dan Block's excellent book on worship and commented that it was one of the only things of which I was aware that addressed the public reading of scripture in a clear and practical…
La Diva's question about evangelicalism and sentimentality is an important one but I would like to expand its reference by pointing to the close connection between sentimentality and aesthetics. We live in an age where matters of taste, defined often…
The news was buzzing yesterday with stories of the apparent infringement of religious freedom in Houston. Ed Whelan offered a report on events in the National Review Online and Mark Movsesian today provided a characteristically nuanced legal account at First…
In answering Todd's question about growing as a preacher, I offer the following thoughts in no particular order of priority: 1. An increasing grasp of the theological significance of the act of preaching. Too many in the Reformed world seem…
The Roman Catholics may have had a Popessa, but here at the HQ of the Irascible, Reconditioned and Replaceable, we have our own Iron Lady who rules with a cold and ruthless fist in the name of Puppet Master. No,…
Runners and Christians everywhere will no doubt be excited to hear that a new movie is planned which will pick up the story of Eric Liddell where Chariots of Fire ended. To those of us who are runners, CoF is…
Over at his blog, Jesus Creed, New Testament scholar Scot McKnight offers some interesting reflections on the neglected topic of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's attitude to the work of Rudolf Bultmann. The post is interesting for a number of reasons. First, it…
