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Death and Taxes

Trotter, I saw this last week outside First Presbyterian Church, Columbia (where Sinclair Ferguson is the senior minister). The graveyard lies right outside the door of the church and it is necessary to pass these graves in order to get…

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Nein!

Nein!   I disagree with the connection Phil makes between hymn singing (which he sets in qualified opposition on this point to psalmody) and Trinitarianism. Those poor psalm singers – not only are they being blame for the division between Scottish confessional…

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Lycanthropy

I had today had a new accusation added to the several that have been made against me over the years: lycanthropy. Indeed.  I found myself in the car park of a local Barnes and Noble being berated by a certain gentleman…

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Summer Vacation

Gentle reader (as a judgment of Christian charity, I am willing to include Carl Trueman and his personae under this rubric), please know that I leave shortly for summer vacation, and that any postings from me are likely to be…

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Trinitarian Worship

Carl, here are several of the many ways to ensure that worship is properly Trinitarian: Make sure that every element of worship is saturated with Scripture — the Scripture breathed out by the Spirit, revealed by the Father, bearing witness to…

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Leb’ wohl, leb’ wohl

There, bet Del Boy didn’t know I can even quote from memory — from memory, boyo!! –the relevant German section of the passage in The Valkyrie to which he refers. Eat humble pie, you culturally elitist Welshman and grovel in abject humiliation…

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Woof woof!

Trotter, Del is in New York at a Wagnerfest. Brünnhilde has angered Wotan and sided with Siegmund and Sieglinde and has been cast into a magical sleep… Well, I won’t go into the details. Let’s say, it’s all in German.…

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Entertaining Ourselves to Death

Ours is the first generation of Christians that has seriously asked the question, how much time can I spend on entertaining myself? In all the reading I have done in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, I have never once come…

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Entertaining Ourselves to Death

Ours is the first generation of Christians that has seriously asked the question, how much time can I spend on entertaining myself? In all the reading I have done in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, I have never once come…

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The dog that did not bark

As Sherlock Holmes said somewhere, the clue to the case was the dog that did not bark.  Should we interpret the silence on Carl Trueman’s (or, to avoid causing sexist offence or falling prey to enlightenment foundationalism in these relativist…