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PCRT Greenville Wrap Up

PCRT Greenville officially ended after morning worship this past Lord’s Day after Dr. Duncan’s glory-filled address on “Partakers of the Age to Come.”  But the conference itself is still lingering in the pre-summer humid air of Greenville.  Some highlights: Joel…

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Hope-full Presbyterianism

For some, my title is a bit of an oxymoron. I like to say that I’m so pleased with the cover of my book, On Being Presbyterian, because the people actually look happy being Presbyterian; that always gets a big…

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Don Carson on Living in the Last Days

Christian Focus has published an excellent little booklet by Don Carson, entitled From the Resurrection to His Return: Living Faithfully in the Last Days. It would be a terrific gift for students leaving home or for basic Bible study on…

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Two news items

First, as reported to me by Scott Clark, Dame Helen Mirren has made an appeal to Hollywood to stop portraying the British as evil villains here.  Sorry, Helen, some of us British types wear that as a badge of honour;…

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Wheaton Conference Report

For the first time in a number of years I decided to attend the Wheaton Theology Conference.  This year’s conference title–“Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N. T. Wright”–obviously proved enticing to many.  A conference…

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An Unmessianic Sense of Non-Destiny

For many men of a certain age, the mid-life crisis is just that: a mid-life crisis, a time for despairing that youth, good looks and perhaps hair have gone, never to return.  For me, however, the experience has been pretty…

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Dispatch from Wheaton

I just returned from the Wheaton Theology Conference, all focused on a dialog with N. T. Wright.  Out of the gate, Richard Hayes surprised everyone by letting a few salvos go in Wright’s direction.  Around the book tables and the…