In last month’s Wages column, I reflected upon my experience in Rome and Padua shortly before Christmas, a week that involved both the awesome beauty of the Vatican, the dazzling intellectual accomplishments of Catholic theological education, and the weird folk…
In last month’s Wages column, I reflected upon my experience in Rome and Padua shortly before Christmas, a week that involved both the awesome beauty of the Vatican, the dazzling intellectual accomplishments of Catholic theological education, and the weird folk…
Discouraged in ministry by the likes of Trotter et al? I have been trying to keep Del Boy from responding too his errant younger brother but I fear his ire will explode soon. In the mean time, you should avail…
It is something a record when Westminster Bookstore informs me that Dr Tim Witmer’s new book on Shepherding has sold out in 2 days and that the publishers (P & R) are already on a second printing (due next week,…
I have just received a copy of Phil Ryken’s new (almost) book, Discovering God in Stories from the Bible (P & R) in which he examines the attributes of God from the stories of Moses, Saul, David and Job and others.…
I will ignore that upstart Smith’s semigerontophobic rant, which merely reinforces the hegemonic dominance of youth, and his stating of the obvious (Of course, I want to define the universe! There’s nobody else I would trust to do it, nobody…
Yale University Press has just released Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in Hands of an Angry God”: A Casebook, edited by Wilson Kimnach, Caleb Maskell, and Ken Minkema. The book has a great introduction, the text of the sermon, and selections from a…
To contextualise Jeremy’s comments for miserable middle aged men like Trueman for whom New Kids on the Block and the Spice Girls are completely unknown quantities, `It’s a bit like when Pink Floyd got back together in 2005. Tense but…
The Knights of St Columbus, a Catholic organisation, have just released the results of a survey of young Americans. The good news is that 85% of young Catholics believe in God, which, in terms of the proportion of reality to…
Both the broader Evangelical church in general and the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in particular are currently embroiled in debates over the authority of Scripture as the Word of God. Because the term “inerrancy” has been prominent in these discussions,…
