Category Reformation21

By popular demand I append more wisdom from every TR’s favourite spiritual mentor, Nicholas `Don’t call me Nicky!’ Mauss, the big pastor of that even bigger church in Montana. Such is the depth of his wisdom that, in a recent…

Stunning news in an artilce in January’s Reformed Man Today (RMT) magazine, pasted below:

This is the second installment in a series of occasional selections from Dave Shiflett’s Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity.  To prove his thesis, Mr. Shiflett must first prove that Americans are, in fact, fleeing liberal churches,…

If scoring is the criterion, then basketball is semi-Pelagian, at best.  For a truly Pelagian sport, one would have to consider the quintessentially English sport of cricket, which is much higher scoring than basketball, and where even the bowlers can manage…

I found myself in the invidious position of having to issue a clarification and apology for a theological analysis of an American “sport” (sic):

One of the most important questions we ask prospective pastoral interns at Tenth Church is: “How do people grow spiritually?”  The answer quickly reveals whether or not candidates are grace-oriented in their discipleship and also how well they understand the role…

Yesterday my father (Leland Ryken, Professor of English, Wheaton College) sent me a thought-provoking exchange from John Steinbeck’s East of Eden: “If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule–a great…

Chad Van Dixhoorn’s “Westminster Assembly Project” website announced this today: January 2007 – The Westminster Assembly Project has launched the Bibliography Project. The project aims to catalogue all works pertaining to the Westminster Assembly, its history, its texts and its…

Dave Shiflett has written a provocative book about the decline of liberal Christianity in America and the concomitant ascendancy of historically orthodox Christianity.  The book is called Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity (New York: Sentinel,…

Tenth Presbyterian Church is hosting its second annual Workshop on Biblical Exposition, February 6-8.  The workshop is put on by The Simeon Trust; the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals is also sponsoring the event and assisting in various ways.  The speakers…