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Carl Trueman…

What do Dylan Thomas, Karl Marx, Jerry Springer and Charles Hodge have in common? The answer is….. Carl Trueman! His inaugural lecture, “Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light” has just been published in the latest volume of the…

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Today in 1967

On this day in 1967 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the USA (PCUSA) adopted (what we now call) the 1967 Confession, a document largely influenced by the liberalization of the doctrine of Scripture (especially by Karl Barth).…

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The Shack

Tim Challies offers an in-depth review of the self-published bestselling book, The Shack. Tim’s  17-page review is nicely formatted, ideal for sharing with those who might be influenced by or curious about the book, which has become something of a…

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Free Indeed

This past Sunday I visited Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in Lancaster city on a field trip with my students in my course on Christianity and American culture.  This church, named after “Mother Bethel,” the church Richard Allen founded…

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Them that honour me…

Some of today’s Scottish newspapers are running a story about our local school’s girls’ football team. Against all the odds, they beat off older teams from larger schools all over Scotland, to reach the final of a national tournament sponsored…

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A tale of two statues

    I have often felt that there is a wealth of good reading material buried away in the annals of past editions of congregational and denominational magazines. Our own denominational paper, The Monthly Record (its title has not changed…

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The God of the Creed

‘I believe in God…!’ So what? – don’t most people? The number of real atheists in the world and throughout history is pretty small. So what’s so special about these opening four words of the Apostles’ Creed? The answer, of…

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Don Carson Talks About Culture

On the eve of the publication of Don Carson’s new and important book, Christ and Culture Revisited, Derek Thomas caught up with him in an airport somewhere in the far East…. DT:  Congratulations of the publication of Christ and Culture…