For some years, those of us alarmed about the federal vision theology have identified it as an obvious pathway to Roman Catholicism. For this view, we are accused of witch-hunting and absurd slippery-slopism. Yet FV advocates keep converting to Rome,…
I don’t know much about Shawn Holes, except that he was in Glasgow last week preaching the Gospel on the street, and then arrested and charged with making homophobic and prejudiced statements. Apparently someone asked him what he thought about…
We praise the Lord for a tremendous weekend in the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology, meeting at the jam-packed Byron Center First CRC in Grand Rapids. Saturday was one of those unforgettable PCRT days that the Lord so often provides…
Things have sure heated up here in South Carolina over the move by the ARP general synod to ensure doctrinal fidelity at its denominational college and seminary, Erskine. As usually happens, the continuing conflict has only shown how necessary that…
Mark Beach has done us all a service by publishing an introduction to Calvin’s Institutes — Piety’s Wisdom.I have to confess that my first encounter with Calvin’s magnum opus proved a difficult one. Calvin’s logic was not mine at the…
Just landed on my desk: a copy of The Trials of Theology: Becoming a ‘Proven Worker’ in a Dangerous Business edited by Andrew J. B. Cameron and Brian S. Rosner (Christian Focus). Essays include voices from the past (Luther, Spurgeon,…
An Edinburgh taxi driver, James Kerr, of Simple Minds Cabs, Morningside, has asked Ref21 to bring readers’ attention to the upcoming Herman Bavinck conference at New College. Details can be found here. It is disappointing to see that there…
Five Reasons to come to PCRT in Greenville In a little under a month, the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology will make its second trip to Greenville, South Carolina. Why should you come? Here’s at least 5 reasons: • First, and…
While the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Synod, a confessional evangelical Presbyterian denomination, has worked for some years to gently turn around its increasingly secularized Erskine college, the reality of difference between the denomination’s and the former board and present administration’s…
While the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Synod, a confessional evangelical Presbyterian denomination, has worked for some years to gently turn around its increasingly secularized Erskine college, the reality of difference between the denomination’s and the former board and present administration’s…
