The Presbyterian Layman reports that after first voting to remove “homosexual perversion” from the list of sins found in the Heidelberg Confession, the PC(USA) then approved a $2 million warchest to wage legal combat against the New Wineskins group (a…
Summer vacation (as well as a teaching trip to Regent College in Vancouver) begins next week. As I anticipate laying down many of the burdens of pastoral care, at least for a little while, here is a salutary reminder of…
Writing in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, David Wells explains what our church and our culture need: “The renewal of which we stand in need, I believe, is of both the understanding of truth and of our knowledge…
The latest edition of the 9Marks journal is on marriage and the church. Note especially the marriage comparison chart with mini-reviews of a number of books.
I have a bad habit: I keep adding books to my growing pile beside my bed. This morning, I finished a book that wasn’t on this list: Christian Scharen’s Faith as a Way of Life. Originating out of Yale’s Center…
My wife and I are off to Peru tomorrow on a mission trip for a week and I’m uncertain if I’ll be able to blog from the Southern Hemisphere! On my way, I’ve decided to dip into Colin Duriez’s new…
One quick addition to my summer reading list: Garth Rosell’s The Surprising Work of God: Harold John Ockenga, Billy Graham, and the Rebirth of Evangelicalism. Ockenga was in the first graduating class of Westminster, among the faculty and student exiles…
Recent meetings of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC) General Synod have been, for the most part, rather sedate affairs. In contrast to the period from the late 1960’s until the early 1980’s, when the Synod was persistently torn…
The problem with living in the Caribbean is you don’t really have seasons. Who knew it was summer and you could read differently? While all the tourist come down, snorkel, and bathe in the sun with a wonderful novel, us…
Compliance is good, even if it comes late, which is to say I finally have my summer reading list to add to the mix. I’m working on a book on American religious history this summer, so I’ll be reading just…
