This past week, I received a copy of the 50th anniversary edition of John Stott’s widely acclaimed best-seller, Basic Christianity. I first read this book in December 1971 as a thoroughly agnostic non-church-going freshman at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.…
John Reed Miller Lecture Series: Part One I don’t want to begin this lecture by spiritualizing a text but…the Old Testament is good bit like Jephthah the Gileadite in Judges 11:1-3. His brothers so much as booted him out of…
Reformed Theology has arguably had a humble revival in recent years. Who would have thought that the Reformed “mega-church’ in Seattle, (I’m thinking of Mars Hill) would have reformed works found on the shelves of Wal Mart supermarkets? I’m thinking…
Read it here. This should be pretty unsettling for anti-institutional pomo types. But I’d really love to know what our resident Marxist Historian thinks about the “Hunter Thesis.”
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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…
