Postcards from Palookaville

The shadowy figure known simply as `The Librarian' brought to my attention the following thoughts of the Scottish theologian and churchman, Thomas Chalmers, on Romans 13. In an era when it is seemingly more and more acceptable to be a social gospeller, to identify Christianity with political...

One of the odd things I have noticed in recent years is the historical isolationism of certain streams of Anglican evangelicalism. It manifests itself in a number of ways: a disparagement of the Book of Common Prayer; the downplaying of systematic theology as a vital component of the church's...

One of the odd things I have noticed in recent years is the historical isolationism of certain streams of Anglican evangelicalism. It manifests itself in a number of ways: a disparagement of the Book of Common Prayer; the downplaying of systematic theology as a vital component of the church's...

Over at the webpage, Called to Communion , Catholic convert from Protestantism, Bryan Cross, has written a a very kind and thought provoking assessment of my comments on Roman Catholicism over recent years. Bryan picks up on a point I have made numerous times, both in print and in the classroom,...

Over at the webpage, Called to Communion , Catholic convert from Protestantism, Bryan Cross, has written a a very kind and thought provoking assessment of my comments on Roman Catholicism over recent years. Bryan picks up on a point I have made numerous times, both in print and in the classroom,...

In the week when the Protestant church looks back to the advertising of a public debate by a professor, Martin Luther, at Wittenberg University on October 31, 1517, and celebrates that event as the start of the Reformation, Derek and I head to Heidelberg. In fact, Heidelberg is a more likely...

In the week when the Protestant church looks back to the advertising of a public debate by a professor, Martin Luther, at Wittenberg University on October 31, 1517, and celebrates that event as the start of the Reformation, Derek and I head to Heidelberg. In fact, Heidelberg is a more likely...

Don Duff, of the OPC, has just brought to my attention this interesting article by an OP pastor in southern California. Very helpful and thought provoking.

Don Duff, of the OPC, has just brought to my attention this interesting article by an OP pastor in southern California. Very helpful and thought provoking.

Good to see that Paul is back from `the Algarve.' Clearly the word has a become a euphemism for a short term of solitary confinement for those who have corrupted the nation's youth and committed crimes too numerous to mention against the English language. To answer Paul on politics in brief points...