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Baker Academic has now posted online a PDF excerpt of Kelly Kapic’s new book, Communion with God: The Divine and Human in the Theology of John Owen. The PDF contains J. I. Packer’s foreword, the table of contents, and the…

In doing a little research on William Wilberforce this week (in anticipation of this week’s release of the film Amazing Grace, which marks the 200th anniversary of the slave trade in the British Empire), I stumbled across a quotation that…

It’s official.  The American Psychological Association has found that the sexualisation of girls and young women is harmful.  Yes indeedy — now we know that the portrayal of women as sex objects is not a good thing.  Incredible, I know,…

Well, I too have enjoyed Mississippi. Most interesting was the comparison of ringtones on my cellphone with that of Del.  I have the climax of The Who’s `Won’t get fooled again,’  Del has `Ride of the Valkyries.’   Now, who do you…

Not quite! Rather, an Englishman in Mississippi. It’s been an education having Dr. Trueman in the heart of Mississippi for few days. Despite the obvious deep-seated, Freudian angst that he’s not Welsh, he has managed to deconstruct American culture in…

A ref21 reader has written to remind me of another good use for apologetics.  According to Calvin, we need apologetics not so much “to convert the hearts of the ungodly but to stop their obstreperous mouths.”  One wonders what Richard Dawkins would…

During Sunday evening (!) worship a few weeks ago, I was refreshed to hear again a hymn by Derek Thomas and Paul Jones.  The hymn is entitled “Our Father Bless’d, To Us Bestows.”  I believe we may have posted it before,…

Visiting RTS Jackson today, it was a thrill to be in the home state of the late great Robert Johnson (look him up on Wikipedia, Del); and to be introduced by Dr Thomas to RTS as a `gangly nerd,’ Del continuing…

I don’t know if the discipline of apologetics is overrated or not, but one aspect of apologetics seems to be underappreciated.  While apologetics may be useful in the exercise of evangelism (helping give people reasons to believe, which of course…

Readers who lament the undeserved popularity of Richard Dawkins’s book The God Delusion will be heartened by the sharp criticism the book receives in the January 11 issue of The New York Review of Books.  While generally unsympathetic to biblical…