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Bad Porn

Last month’s post on Naomi Wolf’s essay “The Porn Myth” provokes many useful lines of practical and theological reflection.  Wolf’s basic argument is that, contrary to feminist expectations, easy access to pornography has not been liberating for women, but makes…

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Updating Tolstoy

Updating TolstoyWages of SpinCarl Trueman   Some years ago the BBC produced a new version of Tolstoy’s romantic tragedy, Anna Karenina, with the twist was that this was to be an updated version set in the present day. I guess…

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Updating Tolstoy

Updating TolstoyWages of SpinCarl Trueman   Some years ago the BBC produced a new version of Tolstoy’s romantic tragedy, Anna Karenina, with the twist was that this was to be an updated version set in the present day. I guess…

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Something good from Wales?

Despite a previously poor cultural track record which includes such low-points of Western civilisation as Derek Thomas, Swansea, and Shakin’ Stevens (Excuse me, boyo, but his album `Whole Lotta Shakey’ was much underestimated, wasn’t it? — ed.), Wales has upped its game…

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Three books on the Psalms

And while Phil’s reading up on imputation, here are three new ones on the psalms: J A Motyer, Treasures of the King: Psalms from the Life of David (IVP – UK).  Good devotional book.  Has Motyer ever written anything that isn’t…

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The Great Exchange

I am very happy to have received a book I have not yet read but do not hesitate to recommend.  It is called The Great Exchange: My Sin for His Righteousness, and it was written by Jerry Bridges and Bob…

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Dever on Evangelism

In the foreword to Mark Dever’s new book, The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, C. J. Mahaney writes: That’s why, for many years now, I’ve been pestering Mark to write this book. It’s so that by the grace of God, church…

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John Newton on Counselling 101

Iain Murray, writes in the August-September issue of The Banner of Truth magazine, a commemorative edition marking the anniversary of the death of John Newton in 1807, on Newton’s pastoral skills: “‘Have you no friend in Cornwall or the north of Scotland…