Goin’ Country
In his interview with Derek Thomas, Sean Lucas confessed to being a fan of country music. Since he’s given the genre his imprimatur, I’ll ‘fess up, too. I, however, came to country music rather recently, when I met Tom Douglas…
Category Reformation21
Adult Sunday School Material
If you are looking for adult Sunday School material, written from a “means of grace”, confessional point of view, I am enthusiastically suggesting that you take a look at the material being produced by the ARPs (Associate Reformed Presbyterian): The…
Is Inerrancy Unbiblical, Rationalistic and Presumptuous? A critique of A.T.B. McGowan’s proposal for evangelicals to reject inerrancy
A. T. B. McGowan’s major item for evangelicals to reconsider, in his book The Divine Spiration of Scripture: Challenging evangelical perspectives, concerns the termination of inerrancy. Not only does he argue for the use of the word infallibility in place…
Advice for Sabbath-keeping
Having preached a sermon that touched in part on the Christian Sabbath (the text was John 5:9-18), I followed it up with a pastor’s letter that gave advice to those learning to keep the Sabbath. I though it might be…
Here Am I
With apologies to Isaiah and Dick Cheney, I have emerged from my undisclosed location to offer my first post. Unlike my companions on this website, I am an utter novice at this. I read Wendell Berry, live next to Amish,…
Watch it, Mr Thomas!
Yes, Mr Thomas, the sisterhood has arrived on Ref21. And be careful — it’s not just me who will be posting, but I intend to offer some excellent, liberated, gynocentric commentary on the contemporary world as developed by my good…
Steve Nichols sighted in Tupelo
On my return from the PCRT conference in Grand Rapids yesterday, I found myself reading Steve Nichols’s new book, Jesus: Made in America (IVP Academic). I confess I skipped the opening chapters: fascinating to be sure, but the real heart…
Je proteste
Rein a dire, rein a faire… as they say in Calais, a woman on Ref21? What is the world coming to? This is yet another sign of postfuturistic deconstruction that needs to be firmly stood upon! What next? Is nothing…
Wall to wall men? Not any more.
As I enter this blog and finally smash the oppressive male monopoly that has dominated it from the start (and that means you too — Nichols and Lucas. Big Sister is particularly watching you two tried-and-tested oppressors….) I notice that…
He Blessed them
We recently had our communion services here in Back. We follow the old Highland pattern of having special services from Thursday through to Monday, morning and evening, in both Gaelic and English. The advantage is that it becomes a high…