Category Reformation21

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Given the fact that the Trinitarian identity of the Christian God is the identity of the Christian God, how do the other bloggers on Ref21 (who are all ministers) ensure that the action of worship in their churches on a…

“Nobody ever did perish trusting in Jesus. There has not been through all these centuries a single instance of a soul being cast away that came all guilty and hell-deserving, and took Christ to be its salvation. If you perish,…