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To follow up on my previous post I found an excellent interview with Ray Galea on Catholicism here.

This academic year we’ve started a book of the month at our church. Each month we buy a load of copies, sell them off cheap, then meet up for breakfast on a Saturday to discuss. If truth be told the…

So runs today’s headline in the London Times following a statement by an evangelical bishop in the Church of England. Bishop Wallace Benn, the Bishop of Lewes, told the Reform conference of conservative Anglicans: “I’m about to use an analogy…

Geoff Thomas is the Don Corleone of Welsh ministers. He’s been the minister of Alfred Place Baptist Church for over 40 years  (still no festschrift!!). He’s a legend in his own lifetime and has written the below postscript for a book by…

Well, first I must apologize for dereliction of duty. Not only have I failed to be a good conversation partner, but I failed to wish Dr. Thomas well on his journey to the land where the ideas of Dr. Trueman’s…

We have a phenomenon in the UK in church evangelism which I think has only happened in the last number of years.  It’s grown out of fine attempts to reach out to non Christians.  We are bombarded as I’m sure…

On the eve of another Reformation Sunday we find ourselves still fighting for that principle which Calvin called the “main hinge on which religion turns” and which Luther called the mark of a standing or falling church, namely the doctrine…

Fascinating day, partly because in the order of things, I had the day off. Carl Trueman gave a brilliant defense of Creeds and Confessions, so brilliant that it made the “no creed but the Bible” folk sound like the lunatic…

I go away to the Algarve for a week of sunshine and tennis only to stumble back to Ref 21 and find that the whole thing has gone politics mad. Talk of the left and the right, Trueman trying to sell his new book on his…

Can we learn something of how to preach from the Epistle to the Hebrews?  We have heard that the first three rules for understanding a passage are “context, context, and context.”  Strange, then, isn’t it, that the author of Hebrews introduces almost…