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More Than One Thing to Say

The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has chided his conservative Anglican bishops in Africa and elsewhere for openly criticizing the U. S. Episcopal Church’s acceptance of openly gay clergy and same-sex unions.  He says, “There is one…

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Men’s Health and Mortification

Rodders, Del Boy sent me an SMS from the local barber’s shop. He’s been reading that monthly journal for men called Men’s Health (December 2006)— never seen it myself, you understand. Anyway, he was reading this article on some dude…

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Meilaender unimpressed by Wright

Gilbert Meilaender, who holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University, scorches N. T. Wright in the current issue of First Things (Februray 2007). For once, it’s not his assertions on Paul and the New Perspective that…

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Dr. Bill Piper

John Piper has posted a very moving journal entry from the other night, recounting the death of his father. I encourage everyone to read it. He has also posted an obituary of his dad.

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First Things First

It seems that every year at the PCRT, something is said that focuses the entire conference.  Last year it was Sinclair Ferguson’s insistence that our goal is not merely “to know the truth of God’s Word, but to know the…

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Back from Sacramento

I just returned from the first installment of this year’s Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology, at Immanuel Baptist Church in Sacramento, CA.  It was another classic PCRT!  There were so many highlights, all of them resulting from the Spirit’s presence…

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Janis Joplin and Martin Luther

Listening to Janis Joplin the other day, I was struck by two things.  First, my eleven year old son (who had never, to my knowledge, heard Joplin) commented as he heard the first bars of `Me and Bobby McGee’ that…