The Man clad in Breeches
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…
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Rosell’s new book and Balmer’s fascinating panel
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…
Not An Ordinary Meeting of Synod
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…
Is It Summer?
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…
Summer Reading
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…
Random Thoughts on Gender, Based on a Small Sample Size
I had the privilege yesterday, along with the other elders of Second Church, of spending the afternoon and evening (before and after evening worship) hearing professions of faith from applicants for membership in our church. As is usual for a city church,…
My Summer Reading
Now that summer is actually here, I can add my summer reading list. Part of this is based on my delusion that summer will actually slow things down! I always plan my reading in categories, trying to do regular devotional,…
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Is Wales really that culturally challenged? You’ll find early footage of Derek singing, Wagner-style, at a Cwmbran Tent Revival meeting here.
Books update
Thanks to all who have volunteered to review my list of books. Of the books I posted earlier today, only the following are left: Sharon Heaney CONTEXTUAL THEOLOGY FOR LATIN AMERICA: LIBERATION THEMES IN EVANGELICAL PERSPECTIVE (Paternoster) Christopher R. Seitz…
Free books… (well, almost free anyway)
As some of you know I am currently the Review Editor for the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology, published jointly by Rutherford House and the Scottish Evangelical Theological Society. With the permission of the Ref21 editor-in-chief, I am going to…