I, like, totally agree and stuff
Yo. I’d just like to say that I like, totally agree and stuff with what the Rev Boadicea says. I mean, when I read the great confessions of the church — well, when my friends, like, told me about them…
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Confessionalism and Male Oppression!
In preparing for the time of Bible-empowered sharing at my usual Sunday gig at St Olaf the Sublime, I came upon this outrageous piece of androcentric oppression from one of those dead white males who’s gruesome shadow lies so long…
Serpent-Sensitive Worship
A very fine column here by our friend Russell Moore on Brian McLaren’s recent address at a youth conference at Willow Creek. Make sure to read to the end to see how Russ ties the article together.
The shed blood of Christ: the foundation of Christianity
Another timely word from Horatius Bonar, in “Christ is All”: The Piety of Horatius Bonar, ed. Michael A. G. Haykin and Darrin R. Brooker (2007), 79-80: What is Christianity? Not metaphysics, not mysticism, not a compliation of guesses at truth.…
Greetings from Uganda
This is a message from the campus of African Bible University, Uganda, where I am spending a week with my son, Stephen. Along with Rev Burk Parsons of St Andrews Chapel, Florida, editor of Tabletalk, we are involved in the…
Polish Catholic Priests stealing sermons
The 28,000 Polish Catholic priests have been reprimanded by Father Wieslaw Przyczyna for plagiarising sermons off the internet. See the story here in Saturday’s Guardian newspaper. Rumour has it that some have been downloading Trueman’s sermons from the web. Can we…
Hymn of the Century
This past weekend we had Keith and Kristyn Getty at the college for a concert. I know it’s quite early in the century, but I will put what’s left of my reputation as a church historian on the line in…
Ministries, Old and New
Reading John Wyclif `On the Pastoral office’ with a ThM class this morning, I was struck by how he fulminated against the fact that clergy in his day only wanted to minister at big, lucrative, socially prestigious churches. Imagine my…
And speaking of Newman . . . (David F. Wells on us)
“It takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant. To live by the truths of historic Protestantism, however, is an entirely different matter. That takes courage in today’s context.” Why? Wells answers: “The truths of historic Protestantism are sometimes…