Here (in the last post I will be making until the new year) is the last installment of a series on an exceptionally effective evangelist from Syndey, Australia: “Well, eight months later, that Crystal Palace Baptist pastor was ministering in…
Thanks Phil. We arrived back from a family funeral last night to be met by Ligon at the airport. Now, why did he remind me of Father Christmas? Strangely, I had been been reading Dr. Mark Garcia’s fine piece in…
Oh, my. I seem to be being struck off all manner of Xmas card lists which, thankfully, I was probably never on in the first place. Two clarifications (at the risk of repeating myself) and a further comment: 1. I did…
That London preacher, six months later, flew to do a convention for 5,000 Indian missionaries in a remote corner of northeastern India. And at the end, the Indian missionary in charge, a humble little man took him home to his…
In an article entitled “An Atheist Can Believe in Christmas,” Randy Kennedy asks how some prominent atheists are (or are not) celebrating the holidays. It turns out that Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation) has a Christmas tree up…
My comments on the late RJR have stimulated some feedback.
Our own Derek Thomas and Dr. Paul Jones (an Alliance Council member who serves organist and music director at Philadelphia’s Tenth Presbyterian Church) have collaborated on a new Christmas carol. The full text and music will be posted soon, but…
Coming back to London, the minister stopped outside Atlanta, Georgia, to speak at a naval chaplain’s convention. And when his three days of revving these naval chaplains up—over a thousand of them, in Suwanee—the chaplain general took him out for a meal.…
“The more I go to church, and the more I turn myself over the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.”…
The latest edition of Harper’s Magazine has an article by Jeff Sharlet on how the Christian right is reimagining US history. R J Rushdoony gets quite a few column inches but Sharlet misses the worst aspect of this man’s history:…
