Category Postcards from Palookaville

One of the striking things about Daniel Block’s new book, For the Glory of God, is that it assumes throughout that most basic and often neglected of truths: the church is a creation and an act of God’s grace, not…

After nearly a decade at Ref21, this marks my last post on the blog.  I think I outlasted every single one of the original cast, all of whom ended up going on to higher and greater things in various more…

After nearly a decade at Ref21, this marks my last post on the blog.  I think I outlasted every single one of the original cast, all of whom ended up going on to higher and greater things in various more…

Pascal put it best when he developed the notions of distraction and diversion: the things, the activities and preferences, which human beings develop to draw them away from thinking about reality, especially death.  A good example is provided by the…

Pascal put it best when he developed the notions of distraction and diversion: the things, the activities and preferences, which human beings develop to draw them away from thinking about reality, especially death.  A good example is provided by the…

Spurgeon on Closed Communion.pdf   With thanks to loyal Ref21 reader and Reformed Baptist, Richard D.        

Spurgeon on Closed Communion.pdf   With thanks to loyal Ref21 reader and Reformed Baptist, Richard D.        

And what kind of a man picks on a woman in labour?  Frank, you should be ashamed of yourself. If ever there was a case for shunning in the Reformed community, I think we have found it on our own…

And what kind of a man picks on a woman in labour?  Frank, you should be ashamed of yourself. If ever there was a case for shunning in the Reformed community, I think we have found it on our own…

Frank is doing exactly what we want: offering robust statement of his beliefs in a way that goes beyond the 'Here's my opinion, but I totally respect yours' of other, blander but undoubtedly more influential websites. I would offer just…