Category Reformation21

For those interested, there is a very thoughtful and perceptive response to my little piece on Francis Beckwith from Catholic philosopher, Dr Michael Liccione, which can be found at

It is my pleasure to announce that the Reverend Dr. Guy Prentiss Waters will join the faculty of Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi on June 1, 2007, as Associate Professor of New Testament. Guy is a graduate of the…

Martin Downes interviews our own Derek Thomas. Here and here, so far.

In light of the deeply offensive emails posted by our fellow blogger, Carl Trueman, over the last week, where he made such outrageous, extreme, heretical and gratuitously poisonous claims as `You know, maybe not all women should feel they have…

Still the emails come in on patristics.  Look, I’m temporarily a pen-pushing bureaucrat, more interested in balance sheets and wielding power over subordinates like some petty Napoleon on speed than in doing something constructive and theological.  But, for those interested…

I have been really encouraged by the positive response to the postings about the importance of reading the early church fathers.  Two further comments on this.

I got an email from a young minister yesterday who was updating me on his calling into ministry.  We first at the Indianapolis PCRT when he was at college.  He would bring a gang from Ball State with specially made…

I’m catching up on recent ref21 conversations, and I couldnt’ help but chime in on the subject raised by Phil’s comment on Ivy League Expectations and Carl’s addition regarding the Reformed church culture as it bears on women.  I especially…

With the great volume of new books these days, there are few truly significant publishing events.  The sixth volume of Hughes Oliphant Old’s The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, released in February,…

The Encyclopedia Puritannica Project sounds like an exciting project: The Encyclopedia Puritannica Project (EPP) is an inter-denominational federation of Christians who are committed to the orthodox truths of Scripture. We believe these truths to be well understood, articulated, and applied…