Category Reformation21

Many of you will now be familiar with the local story that’s gone round the world, about the gent who was refused service as ShopRite when he requested a birthday cake with the name of his little boy, Adolf Hitler…

Our friend Martin Downes has alerted me to the following discussion on the atonement, particularly penal substitution and Christus Victor with Mike Ovey and Andrew Sachs here.

Chris Anderson has launched a website to provide resources for musicians and worship leaders who want to appropriate some of the new work that is being done in the great tradition of hymnody and other church music. Check it out…

First, for lovers of Milton, the BBC (Radio 3 — the best classical radio channel in the world, no question!) are having something of a love-fest during December-January. The radio programs are all available for listening up to seven days…

Here’s the link: (At the time of writing the B&C website seems to be done, but I trust it will be back up soon.) Here’s a quote from his review: For six years I was as close to Frank…

Carl Trueman is right about physiology and depression, but will come to regret ordering Franky Schaeffer’s book about his father, which is guilty of far more than bad taste.  For those who haven’t seen it, Os Guinness wrote an appropriately…

I have just come across a blog by “Jeffrey” who describes himself as having been an evangelical Christian until April 2008 until, that is. Christianity “failed the insider test.”  Sad as this is, his latest blog lists five books which he…

William Grimshaw of Haworth in Yorkshire, born 14 September 1708, was regarded by J C Ryle as one of the three greatest men of the eighteenth century Evangelical Revival; the other two being John Wesley and George Whitefield. Evangelical Press…

I have been benefitting this week from reading Scott Clark’s Recovering the Reformed Confession. The opening chapter is very thoughtful and thought-provoking, particularly in Scott’s discussion of tradition. He quotes John Murray to the effect that ‘there is a catholic,…

This month’s BBC Music Magazine (Dec 08) contains a fascinating piece on the “50 Greatest Carols.” Over fifty choir directors from some of the prestigious cathedrals and music schools in Britain were asked to choose their top five. There are…