Category Reformation21

It’s been quite a while since I contributed to the Ref21 blog, as numerous people have commented to me via email.  Sorry about that.  The bottom line is that I’ve just been a bit overwhelmed of late with the various…

I’vve had some requests to give more info on what to read/where to go to start learning about the early church fathers.  Below I have appended a basic resource guide.  Hope it helps.

The paper on the ETS to which I allude in my Beckwith piece can be found on Ray’s website at

Del, Seems that the last few paras of my reflection on Beckwith are missing.  No — I don’t announce my own conversion to Rome in them; but the article currently ends in mid air.  Just can’t get the staff these…

Carl Trueman reflects on the issue in reformation21, here.

It’s been a few weeks since we last ran our `Taxi Driver Speaks’ column; so, in light of the amazing changes among Southern Baptists and Del-Boy’s lah-de-dah elitist musings about Mahler (not to mention his sneering swipe at the great…

I’ve been slow to respond to Phil’s blog about being at Eschenbach’s performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony, “The Resurrection.” Mainly, I have to confess, just sheer envy! I daren’t begin my tragic tale of life in Mississippi!  But he raises…

You heard it here first: a group of baptist leaders gathered at Southern Baptist Seminary have assessed all the evidence and decided that — wait for it — believer’s baptism is the only biblical approach.  See the shock headline at,…

The following lectures were delivered in September 2006 by Carl Trueman at the Theology for All Conference in the UK: Theology and Everyday Life: The Reformation and Beyond Contemporary Challenges to Theology and Church Life What should a theological church…

Phil’s blog got me thinking about the whole issue of women in Reformed and conservative evangelical circles in general.   On the whole, I don’t think the church provides the kind of environment that helps.  Two examples: in Britain, certain denominations don’t…