Category Reformation21

In recent years, the commitment of the Free Church of Scotland to exclusive, unaccompanied psalm-singing in “formal” worship services has wavered. The issue, understandably, has divided an already fractured church. The church has taken the unusual step of calling a plenary…

I suspect the organisers of Lausanne would have no such  problems with women bishops!  The conspiracy of silence on Ruth Padilla’s exposition on Ephesians 2 at Lausanne is deafening.  As far as I can see Eph 2 is not hard…

The most postmodern of sins has to be hypocrisy – “being inauthentic,” if we want to use quasi-Satre categories. We are quick to recognize it in others and, like most sins, slow – painfully slow – to recognise (HT: Carl…

Further to my blog entry below, Martin Downes has informed me that Charles Hodge’s letter (in 1869) to Pius IX declining an invitation to attend the Vatican Council is now on-line here. To cite Hodge, “we are not heretics…”

Further to the blog entries by Carl and Paul, I note with some fascination the Canterbury trail is leading, well, to Rome. See here. It’s curious: denials of doctrine seem to pass without too much difficulty, but a mere hint…