Reflections on Between the Times: the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Transition, 1945-1990 (Willow Grove: OPC) This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. To mark the occasion, well-known scholarly historian, Reformed pundit and OPC…
[Editor’s Note: This is the first post Rev. Wynne wrote in response to Dr. Evans, which was inadvertently removed last week. We repost it here in its entirety.] Dr. Evans has recently graced this forum with some thought provoking comments…
I want to thank Dr. Evans for his extended and thoughtful response to my recent post on Scripture and the ancient Near East. In that post, I expressed my concern that his appeals to ANE data for reading Genesis 1…
There have been a number of responses to my recent Ref21 posts on creation and confessional hermeneutic. Some have been little more than disappointing expressions of the old “slippery slope” and “camel’s nose under the edge of the tent” argument,…
Yesterday I went out for coffee with a new guy in our church. He was asking about what I’d been reading and, for some unknown reason, I started to talk to him about the whole James Macdonald/ TD Jakes gate.…
They were dark days indeed, I was new to the church. Those of you who’ve been young ministers know what it’s like, I wanted to get alongside my elders, it was weakness I readily admit. It was Cranmer-esque but I’ve…
Editor’s note: This week’s article is an edited version of a book-length response to the new book The End of Christianity, edited by John Loftus. For Hays and company’s (excellent) response to one of Loftus’ other books, The Christian Delusion,…
Editor’s note: This week’s article is an edited version of a book-length response to the new book The End of Christianity, edited by John Loftus. For Hays and company’s (excellent) response to one of Loftus’ other books, The Christian Delusion,…
Some of the issues persistently raised in recent discussions of controversial matters within the conservative Reformed community have to do with the role and interpretation of confessional materials. Whether it be discussions pro and con of Federal Vision attempts to…
First of all, apologies for my absence from this blog for the past few months. You seem to have managed without me. Second, apologies for not realising until today that Geoffrey Grogan, former lecturer in London Bible College (now London…
