Category Reformation21

At the risk of waking the sleeping giant (Rodders) I thought I’d share with you my morning. It began with a headache (literally) which has all the portents of being here to stay! Then, exams — not the taking of…

In a November 24 letter to the editor of The Wall Street Journal, Dan Heneghan of Monkton, Maryland, decries the defense of plagiarized sermons: “The Rev. Steve Sjogren preaches that ‘attribution is a waster of time,’ a perspective not embraced…

This may be old news, but I first learned of it yesterday and thought it would be good to share: Our friend Michael Horton has been named the initial holder of the J. Gresham Machen Chair of Systematic Theology and…

Reformed University Fellowship, the student-based fellowship of the Presbyterian Church in America, have been banned from meeting on the campus of Brown University. See the following links: Here and here and here.

For those interested, Ian Glover sent me the actual text about the Scottish minister who was so ungrateful: Letter   addressed to Rev Robert [?], Kirkintilloch, by [Rev] Finlay Stewart November 9th 1813. (Letter addressed to members of Presbytery calling to…

Thanks Phil. You are quite correct. I am a three-month old grandfather of a beautiful girl named “Hannah May.” In Belfast, where my daughter and son-in-law live, she is known as Hannah, but in Mississippi, these sweet folk have a…

I believe I am right in saying that Derek Thomas is now a grandfather, and for the first time.  Derek, would you care to give us any personal reflections on this significant milestone in the Thomas family?

To all those of you who have e-mailed concerning my Nietzsche review and what appears to be gobbledygook; we are working on it. I’m blaming Trueman for his virulent attacks on my ethnicity!

Given the question on the blog, I’m reminded of an anecdote my good pal, Rev Ian Glover, told me recently.  When doing archival work in Edinburgh, he came across one Scottish minister (whether 18th or 19th century, I cannot remember)…

Cards on the table — like Derek, I know Stephen Williams.  He was my predecessor in the editorial chair at Themelios and, when I took over, memorably told me it was like `selling a second hand car to a friend’. …