Postcards from Palookaville

On the small table in the corner of my office at Westminster there is an icon of the man who became known simply as `The Theologian,' Gregory of Nazianzus, one of the most important Christian thinkers of the later fourth century. The icon is, of course, a classic piece of Orthodox artwork: Gregory...

It is a pleasure to report that the excellent website Beginning with Moses is back up and running. Not so much revival as resurrection, I suspect -- the UK was rife with dark rumours earlier this year that somebody (who shall remain nameless for his own protection and to save his wife and children...

It is a pleasure to report that the excellent website Beginning with Moses is back up and running. Not so much revival as resurrection, I suspect -- the UK was rife with dark rumours earlier this year that somebody (who shall remain nameless for his own protection and to save his wife and children...

As a brief postscript to yesterday's posts on pastors, I received an email last night from Danny Hyde, the URC minister in Oceanside, CA, drawing my attention to Acts 20:20, where Paul describes his ministry among the Ephesians. It provides precisely the historical picture which his letters would...

As a brief postscript to yesterday's posts on pastors, I received an email last night from Danny Hyde, the URC minister in Oceanside, CA, drawing my attention to Acts 20:20, where Paul describes his ministry among the Ephesians. It provides precisely the historical picture which his letters would...

A good point, Justin, which has been made to me in a few emails I've received this morning. I would respond as follows: 1. The pastor is the full time person and therefore the buck stops with him. Elders have duties too, of course, but most of us are occupied with our earthly callings until early...

A good point, Justin, which has been made to me in a few emails I've received this morning. I would respond as follows: 1. The pastor is the full time person and therefore the buck stops with him. Elders have duties too, of course, but most of us are occupied with our earthly callings until early...

Russell Moore has written a great piece which exposes the idolatrous nature of Glenn Beck's ghastly self-promotional pantomime on Saturday, and the evidence this provides of the woeful state of an evangelicalism that, to put it bluntly, greets blasphemy as truth, as long as the flag is being waved...

Russell Moore has written a great piece which exposes the idolatrous nature of Glenn Beck's ghastly self-promotional pantomime on Saturday, and the evidence this provides of the woeful state of an evangelicalism that, to put it bluntly, greets blasphemy as truth, as long as the flag is being waved...

The recent criticism from a member of the Missouri Synod, concerning Reformed church planting in Germany, was rooted in part in what the critic (in the comments section) articulated as a frustration with the constant attempts of the Reformed to claim Luther as their own. To the uninitiated, this...