[Editor’s note] This is the third in a series of Christmas-related postings by Carl Trueman. Several will come in this series during the month of December. The second can be read here. One of the most beautiful vignettes in the…
[Editor’s note] This is the third in a series of Christmas-related postings by Carl Trueman. Several will come in this series during the month of December. The second can be read here. One of the most beautiful vignettes in the…
This afternoon, I had a very rare experience in my ministry at First Presbyterian Church, Hattiesburg, Mississippi: an open two-hour block between sermon writing and appointments and our Wednesday night activities. And so, I set myself to something that I’ve…
I’m working my way through ‘Communion with God’, the revamped version by Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor. It’s excellent. When you’re as dopey as I am the Banner of Truth Gould edition makes you want to run to your mother…
For a while now, I’ve been working with a theory for understanding religious controversy. While I’ve mainly thought about this theory as a historical explanation, it does have its contemporary application as well. Here it is: while most religious controversies…
Roger Nicole died last Friday, two days after his 95th birthday. Justin Taylor has written some reflections here. We, at Reformation21, are grateful to God for a theological giant who did so much for the kingdom of God.
[Editor’s note] This is the second in a series of Christmas-related postings by Carl Trueman. Several will come in this series during the month of December. The first can be read here. The glory of Christmas is the reality of…
I just got an email from my friend Chip Stam, who teaches at Southern Seminary. He says: “December 8 is the day on which Roman Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Immanculate Conception (the notion that Mary was born without…
Frequent contributor to Ref21, Dr. John Ross, has written a personal reflection on the recent decision of the plenary Assembly of the Free Church of Scotalnd to abandon its commitment to the exclusive use of unaccompanied psalmody in public worship. Dr. Ross…
When I was growing up during the 1980s in Wales the preacher everybody loved probably more than any other was J Douglas Macmillan. I only heard him in the flesh a handful of times but each occasion is embedded in…
