A concerned reader from London has raised the issue of whether Hollywood celebrities have been muscling in on PCA debates about the federal vision, and offers the following photographic evidence that former Hollywood wild boy Rob Lowe and upstanding Dabney scholar…
The guys at 9 Marks are now blogging: blog.9marks.org. The blog is called “Church Matters.” Mark Dever contributes the opening post. Here’s an excerpt: This blog is dedicated to discussion of matters pertaining to the church because church matters. 9marks…
Lunchtime conversations with minister friends in London indicates that the storm about Steve Chalke and penal substitution rumbles on in the UK. There are dark rumours of a certain well-known Christian book chain boycotting a popular presentation of the doctrine;…
Back in the UK I hear rumours that a certain well-known Welsh Baptist minister who read a piece I wrote in Themelios on J I Packer and the Anglo-Welsh evangelical crisis of 1966, has been heard to lament loudly at…
From an email by Wayne Grudem (posted with permission): I just learned this morning that Harold O. J. (“Joe”) Brown, professor of theology at Reformed Theological Seminary – Charlotte, NC, and a long-time friend, is gravely ill. His cancer from…
Trueman wasn’t actually at the assembly; I was standing in for him. And I too had a horrific return journey — plane cancelled at Charlotte at 11.15 pm, followed by a 600 mile through-the-night car journey with a former Clinton…
For those who haven’t seen it, there is a moving account of the funeral for three men who were martyred in Turkey on April 18 (for further context, see the May 1 post called “Turkey Martyrs.” Here is the report:
Following the Westminster Assembly conference I spoke to someone who attended Carl Trueman’s lecture, having never heard him before. He told us that it was “the best thing I’ve ever heard.” He backed down a little bit after we laughed…
I believe I may have seen Carl Trueman at the PCA General Assembly (just arrived back at 3am this morning — a story for a different time, in which AirTran figures prominently and unhelpfully). However, I’m not sure whether I…
My attention has been drawn to a DVD of Bach’s Mass in B Minor sponsored by Soli Deo Gloria (www.SDGmusic.org). The DVD is produced by Virgin Classics and is a performance of Bach’s Mass by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris…
