The worst maritime disaster in peacetime in British waters took place on the Isle of Lewis ninety years ago, on 1 January 1919. The yacht Iolaire (Gaelic for ‘eagle’) was returning some two hundred and fifty Lewismen who were returning…
Two British missionaries in Gambia, West Africa, have been imprisoned for a year for sending anti-Islamic e-mail. See the full story here.
I received the following “Christmas meditation” from Dr. Ray Van Neste (Ryan Center for Biblical Studies,; see his blog here): It seems that many people think you can only celebrate Christmas if all is well. You can see this in…
There is so much irony wrapped up in Rick Warren’s invitation to invoke God’s blessing on the inauguration of Barak Obama that I am astonished that Carl Trueman has not written more about it. The news is that the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender…
David Meredith (Free Church of Scotland, Smithton/Culloden) sent me the following: The new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has caused some raised eyebrows in educational circles. Several supposedly old-fashioned words have been removed. A report in the Daily Telegraph…
We’ve received hundreds of requests for the Calvin blog reading schedule. The office will be sending them out today, I’m told but if you haven’t yet asked for one then contact us right away at r21@alliancenet.org and we’ll get one…
Pope Benedict XVI has declared the world in need of saving – from homosexuality and gender bending. And this, two days before Christmas! Has the man no taste or decency? The press is understandably in an uproar – it has…
I am finally holding in my own hands Guy Richard’s The Supremacy of God in the Theology of Samuel Rutherford (Paternoster). David Fergusson (sic), of New College, Edinburgh calls it “a landmark in Rutherford scholarship.” In it, Guy (a dear…
The stark brevity of the Apostles’ Creed’s affirmation of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit is enough to give many Christians apoplexy in today’s church. To their ears it sounds almost insulting to the third Person of the Trinity after…
Categories of literature have expanded well beyond the tragedy/comedy paradigm of earlier days. Genres, in other words, have been fruitful and have multiplied. Into the mix, I propose a new addition, apostasy literature. Definition: a genre, usually taking the form…
