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Machen’s birthday (July 28) went almost unnoticed (blame Calvin), but our friend Martin Downes has put together a helpful Machen resource here.

Recently, a friend quoted John Kennedy to me: `To lead is to choose.’ It is not a quotation that I have been able to verify, but whether Kennedy said it or not, it is surely a piece of brilliant insight…

Recently, a friend quoted John Kennedy to me: `To lead is to choose.’ It is not a quotation that I have been able to verify, but whether Kennedy said it or not, it is surely a piece of brilliant insight…

The latest issue of Themelios is now online. In addition to a number of reviews there are lots of pieces worth reading: Carson on polemical theology, Trueman on advice for those thinking about a PhD, essays on Luther and baptismal…

In the continued coverage of the decision of the Church of Scotland to appoint an openly gay minister, our friend, David Robertson, editor of the Monthly Record (the official magazine of the Free Church of Scotland) has recently been cited…

I seem to recall recently reading something from the good Dr. Trueman on the subversive nature of reciting the Apostle’s Creed.  Then today I came across this as I was reading the good Dr. Packer: “Each worshiper . . .…

Phil, Your comments about Pennington sent me through piles of articles and things left on the cutting floor for The Decline.  One other person not included in the book but worthy of some ink is Wiliam Douglass.  Douglass served for…

So far I have surprised myself by sticking to my intended reading list for the Summer, and have just finished Machiel A. Van Den Berg’s excellent paperback, Friends of Calvin. This collection of twenty-four of Calvin’s colleagues, contemporaries, relations, friends…

Hi Phil, Thanks for the warm comments re: The Decline and the suggestion of including James Pennington in future revisions.  Pennington is a hero, and like you I appreciate his ministry.  I continue to think that in so much of…

I have been doing a fair amount of reading on sabbatical, including Thabiti Anyabwile’s The Decline of African American Theology, which I enjoyed immensely.  Thabiti uses original sources to document the ways in which African American theology has moved from…