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The Scots Confession

Today I’ve been working on a lecture I’m due to give in Cambridge next Monday commemorating the 450th anniversary of the Scottish Reformation. Dairmid MacCulloch of Oxford University calls the Scottish Reformation the most successful of all the reformations of the period.…

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Taxi-ology

I climbed into the cab the other day only to discover the driver (whose name sounded like snotter or rotter) is a bit of a Ref21 aficiendo. The traffic was thundering in London so it difficult to catch every word but he was commenting how he…

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More essays for Levy

The idea for a Mother Levy Festschrift could certainly have some mileage.  Here’s a few more essay suggestions: Carl R. Trueman `New Cardinal Newman or George W. Bush Redivivus?  Critical Reflections on the Development of Paul Levy’s Prose Style’ Martin…

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Festschrifts are the new rock n roll

I see from Liam’s blog that John Piper has just had a volume of essays  published in his honour.  No doubt it’s thoroughly deserved and scripture tells us to honour our leaders but I wonder ‘of the making of festschrifts is…

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Uncomfortable Grace

Before Dr. Thomas and I begin our excursion into the often-imitated-never-duplicated world of Carl Trueman, I came across this passage in Dr. Paul Tripp’s chapter for the upcoming Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology book (due out by this year’s PCRT!). In…

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The New Calvins

The new Calvinists have now made it to the pages of the Economist – no doubt Dr. Trueman will have something to say about my reading habits……..  

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Desiring God

I got back Monday morning from my first ever trip to Minneapolis MN. To the generation immediately before mine the name of that city is forever associated with the famous strapline: ‘Just write to me at Billy Graham, Minneapolis Minnesota.’…

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Republocrat

Unless you have been on vacation in the Outer Hebrides, you will know that Carl Trueman has been busy writing his latest book, Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative (P & R).   Gabe and I are going to blog…

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Generation Y, God and Peter Pan

According to the front page of Tuesday’s Daily Telegraph ‘Generation Y has no use for God.’   ‘Religion is largely irrelevant to most young people, who rely instead on a  ‘secular trinity’ of themselves, their family and friends to give…

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The truth will set you free

The bi-annual Affinity Theological Studies Conference  will take place 2-4 February 2011 at High Leigh Conference Centre. It’s a conference with a difference in that all the papers are sent out beforehand, a brief presentation is given then folk confer and…