Category Reformation21

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Further to my entry below, Steve Nichols appears on www.harvest-tv.com talking about his new book on blues music. He appears for about ten minutes or so about 20 minutes into the show. If you want see as well as hear him, this…

While preaching recently on the twelve apostles, I focussed on John’s statement about Thomas: ‘Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came’. John, of course, does not tell us why Thomas was…

The guys over at Christ the Center have been interviewing Steve Nichols concerning his new book Getting the Blues. You may want to stick with the interview until 37.06 when Steve and the gang bring my expertise into the program.…

The Washington Post recently interviewed Marilynne Robinson, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Gilead, and most recently, of Home. Here’s how the interview begins: If you want to understand how different Marilynne Robinson is from other contemporary novelists — how different,…

The Gospel and Culture Project has launched a new website that will be of interest to most if not all readers of Reformation 21.  The website is edited by Chris Simmons, who is an expert in film and who attended…

During our earlier discussion of Tim Keller’s book The Prodigal God, I pointed out the way some have used this parable to undermine the centrality of the atonement in salvation.  I also stated that I was confident that Keller would…

In case anyone might be interested, here is the link for the remarks I made last month about a Christian perspective on the current economy.  The occasion was a gathering of the Wheaton Associates who met for breakfast at Wheaton…

  When government officials e-mailed for a translation of the words “No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential traffic only” what came back was the Welsh equivalent of “I am not in the office at the minute. Please send any work…

Got Trueman on your pod? Here. The lads at Christ the Center get our man Carl for 62 minutes of scintillating discussion of, among other things, “the contribution of Owen to Trinitarian theology and practice with his emphasis on the…