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What Would Luther Do?

Writing in USA Today this week, Skidmore College’s Mary Zeiss Stange argues that Martin Luther would join her in blessing same-sex unions.  The basic argument for this is as conventional as it is false, namely, that the genius of the Reformation…

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No little people

Rev Bryan Follis of Belfast kindly sent me a copy of his new book, Truth with Love: The Apologetics of Francis Schaeffer (Crossway). I was very moved (convicted?) by the conclusion of the book:

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The Pope is Catholic After All

Martin Downes, the great Welsh ecumenist, brought this article in The Times to my attention.  As Tipton and Oliphint exclude Trueman from the congregation of the faithful, so the Pope now excludes everyone outside his own communion: Looks like…

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Paul Helm and N. T. Wright

Paul Helm has posted his analysis of N. T. Wright’s ordo salutis on his blog. His conclusion? “With the help of the distinctions between temporal and logical order, and events and states, we are able to see that Wright’s view…

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The Rest of Faith

Rick Phillips made the mistake of asking me to give the charge at his installation as the twelfth senior minister of the Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville, SC. I chose the (admittedly unusual and presumably unprecedented) text of Hebrews 4:9-11…

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Ferguson on the Wrath of God

It was a privilege to attend Rick Phillips’s installation service last night at the Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville (South Carolina).  Sinclair Ferguson preached from 1 Thessalonians 1 on “Becoming a Model Church” and was in his usual good form.  In…

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Vlad the Taxi Driver on Orthodoxy

I have remained silent for too long.  Trueman’s reactionary commendation of Bob Letham on Orthodoxy cannot go without response, so I’ve invited one of Transylvania’s leading theologians to respond: Vlad Dracul — no, not the medieval scourge of the Carpathian mountains…

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Bob Letham on Orthodoxy

Just finishing Bob Letham’s brilliant and accessible Through Western Eyes: Eastern Orthodoxy — a Reformed Perspective (Christian Focus).  Typical of Bob’s style — awesome learning, accessible writing, and a fine critical exposition of the history and theology of Orthodoxy which…