Postcards from Palookaville

This morning, I received this note Danny Hyde, URC pastor in California: Hello friends, colleagues, and everyone else in between! I am sending this note to almost everyone in my contact list in order to spread an opportunity as far and wide as possible for the sake of Christian missions. As a means...

This morning, I received this note Danny Hyde, URC pastor in California: Hello friends, colleagues, and everyone else in between! I am sending this note to almost everyone in my contact list in order to spread an opportunity as far and wide as possible for the sake of Christian missions. As a means...

One of my great hates -- yes, I know, I have so many. Like Cardinal Newman, I am a `great hater,' though while his focused on great personalities, mine focus more on disco music, American "sports,"and pastors of the arts/offshore investments/whatever is the latest trendy thing we are all supposed...

As usual, the Superbowl generates more questions for me than answers. How did a game of one hour develop over time into a game of between three and four hours? Who ever decided that a bunch of predominantly overweight men who stand around doing little other than posing in spandex should come to be...

As usual, the Superbowl generates more questions for me than answers. How did a game of one hour develop over time into a game of between three and four hours? Who ever decided that a bunch of predominantly overweight men who stand around doing little other than posing in spandex should come to be...

The Affinity Conference in High Leigh was most enjoyable. All British evangelical life was there. And for me half the fun was catching up with stacks of old friends. Dan Strange, public theologian, began every paragraph with an apologetic `I am not actually an Anglican, although I do teach at Oak...

The Affinity Conference in High Leigh was most enjoyable. All British evangelical life was there. And for me half the fun was catching up with stacks of old friends. Dan Strange, public theologian, began every paragraph with an apologetic `I am not actually an Anglican, although I do teach at Oak...

Over at Tim Challies' place , a minor storm is brewing about whether Bonhoeffer was an evangelical (whatever that might mean) or not. Here are some thoughts: First, I am no Bonhoeffer scholar, but have enjoyed reading him over the years and found him often helpful and always provocatively...

Over at Tim Challies' place , a minor storm is brewing about whether Bonhoeffer was an evangelical (whatever that might mean) or not. Here are some thoughts: First, I am no Bonhoeffer scholar, but have enjoyed reading him over the years and found him often helpful and always provocatively...

Perhaps only a few American readers will know the name of John Profumo. He was a British conservative MP, and married the actress, Valerie Hobson (Dennis Price's love interest in Kind Hearts and Coronets ). In 1963, as Minister of War, he was caught in a scandal involving a prostitute who had...