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Del Boy has also been excluded from the Ref21 site, but he asked me to pass on this reply: Gordon Bennet, if you ask me, that Thomas geezer doesn’t know a “new perspective” from “a news headline!” And you don’t…

I’m afraid to say that Tony `the Gent’ Pinnochio, Mafioso, open theist, and hit man (“No whackin too small!”) is furious that the new software for the Ref21 webpage prevents him from blogging.   Thus, I pass on this note from…

I’m about to commit adultery — yes, I’m looking for a sports bike, not to take part in the upcoming Tour de France, you understand, but in order to improve my running time.  Biking, apparently, boosts 5k and 10k performance times,…

Ligon, me too. There is a direct hermeneutical line from the denial of Jesus’ maleness as central to his incarnational imaging of his Father in heaven and the trend for egalitarianism. Both deny creational order as expressive of the divine image.…

The new presiding bishop of the ECUSA, Katharine Jefferts Schori, in her sermon to the General Convention yesterday, said: “That sweaty, bloody, tearstained labor of a cross bears new life. Our mother Jesus gives birth to a new creation and…

The PCA General Assembly is predictably boring. No cat fights between lesbian clergy handing out Hershes Kisses and outraged conservatives; no overtures banning the production, advertising and promotion of alcoholic beverages; not even a hint of women’s ordination. The hottest…

The Opening Worship Service of Presbyterian Church in America General Assembly was held in Atlanta last night, and began with a quote, just before the Call to Worship, from Mark Dever’s The Deliberate Church. The PCA elected a new moderator, Dominic…

There are advantages to being Presbyterian! It’s called General Assemblies. True, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In America is like no other. More about schmoozing than ecclesiastical politics. Truth is, we’re more akin to Congregationalism than we dare…

While other godlier bloggers are off at GAs, reflecting on Christology and other serious matters, I spend my time running in the sun (the 90 degree mark separates the men from the boys, I am convinced) and reading Private Eye, in…

Well, I’ve been reveling in the rich biblical teaching of Sinclair Ferguson and Doug Kelly this afternoon at the PCA GA pre-conference on “The Westminster Confession for Today” (sponsored by RTS and a host of others). Sinclair addressed the issue of…