I am very high on the latest book by Steve Nichols, with Eric Brandt: Ancient Word, Changing Worlds. Simply put, it is the best, clearest, and most reliable historical overview of the doctrine of Scripture for a contemporary audience.
My artist friend, Ned Bustard, at Square Halo Books and World’s End Images has come up with a great way to celebrate the New Calvinist milestone of recognition in Time. He’s set up four designs that can don t-shirts, mugs,…
The Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College currently features a show of art by the contemporary Chinese artist He Qi (pronounced huh-chee). He Qi’s vibrant paintings (color on paper) feature scenes from the stories of the Old and New Testament.
I will take Carl’s gratuitous appeal to Prov. 26:4 as a concession of defeat to my unimpeachable visual evidence. (I didn’t think such pitiful argumentation qualified for scholarship in England.) Moreover, since our friends Ligon (South Carolina Scotsman) and Derek…
I’m sure many of our readers have seen or heard about Michael Spenser’s article, picked up in the Christian Science Monitor, “The Coming Evangelical Collapse.” I strongly agree with his overall perspective, while perhaps quibbling on some details. Michael Bell…
In a recent column over at 9 Marks, our good friend Mark Dever offered a list of things he can and cannot abide with in a church. Only three items fell into Dever’s “can’t abide with them” category: universalism, racism,…
Sorry it took me so long to answer Carl’s eccentric rants regarding English rugby vs. American football. I took the liberty of posting in a couple of pictures (see extended view). The top is a dramatic moment from a game…
For those who haven’t seen it yet, David Van Biema has a piece in the latest issue of Time magazine about the resurgence of Calvinism as a culture-shaping theology. Despite a few caricatures (Calvin’s God is not only “utterly sovereign,”…
Yesterday our regional Synod met in Stornoway Free Church for its routine annual meeting. A public lecture was given in the evening by Rev Kenneth Stewart of Dowanvale Free Church, Glasgow, on the subject of ‘The Labour of Prayer: Lessons…
Rumor has it that Carl “Trotter” has a birthday today. Bloggers be kind. Say something Trotskey-esque; remind him that his predictions seem likely to come to pass given the swagger of the Hill towards Europe. Not so much “Vive la Différence” as…
