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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
On the eve of the publication of his latest book, The Courage to be Protestant (Eerdmans, 2008), Derek Thomas asked him some questions about the reasons that lay behind its publication. DT: Congratulations David on the publication of your latest…
On the eve of the publication of his latest book, The Courage to be Protestant (Eerdmans, 2008), Derek Thomas asked him some questions about the reasons that lay behind its publication. DT: Congratulations David on the publication of your latest…
As I indicated earlier, I was able to visit African Bible University in the company of my son Stephen at the end of April. His YouTube slideshow of the visit is here.
I’ve been AWOL again, and after only a few posts at that. Our family moved. It was just next door and downhill at that, but it was still a move. I feel I should post about the obligatory things one…
Just ask the folks at Calvin Theological Journal who recently reviewed a book by our friend Jelly Kapic!
