Postcards from Palookaville

In 1998, whilst on faculty at the University of Nottingham, UK, I was invited by my late and much missed mentor, Bob Horn, to become the editor of Themelios , the UCCF/IFES theological journal. It was a key moment for me, the point at which I decided that, in addition to my more academic work, I...

This week, I want to focus on a few good books that have recently been published or are about to hit the bookshelves. I also want to address the tricky question of Luther and the Jews: both in virtually every Sunday School class I have ever taught on Luther, and in my own recent work on Holocaust...

This week, I want to focus on a few good books that have recently been published or are about to hit the bookshelves. I also want to address the tricky question of Luther and the Jews: both in virtually every Sunday School class I have ever taught on Luther, and in my own recent work on Holocaust...

The announcement that The King's College, New York, has appointed Dinesh D'Souza as its new President is interesting for a number of reasons. D'Souza undoubtedly makes a good choice for an institutional president -- articulate, dynamic, and learned, as well as being a public figure of considerable...

The announcement that The King's College, New York, has appointed Dinesh D'Souza as its new President is interesting for a number of reasons. D'Souza undoubtedly makes a good choice for an institutional president -- articulate, dynamic, and learned, as well as being a public figure of considerable...

The sixth, seventh, and eighth marks of a good preacher are, for Luther, that he should know when to stop, he should be certain and diligent in his subject, and he should put his life, limb, possessions and honour into it, There is a ninth mark, but we'll come to that in a moment. Of the three...

The sixth, seventh, and eighth marks of a good preacher are, for Luther, that he should know when to stop, he should be certain and diligent in his subject, and he should put his life, limb, possessions and honour into it, There is a ninth mark, but we'll come to that in a moment. Of the three...

While there has been an understandable reaction in parts of the Reformed world against the kind of radical downgrading of ordained ministry which has come to mark much of the evangelical world, this has itself created problems. Perhaps most obvious is the priestly culture it can generate, where the...

While there has been an understandable reaction in parts of the Reformed world against the kind of radical downgrading of ordained ministry which has come to mark much of the evangelical world, this has itself created problems. Perhaps most obvious is the priestly culture it can generate, where the...

There is an interesting video over at Biologos by Rev. Dr. Joel Hunter. It is a graciously worded and gentle piece but does leave some questions. The major burden seems to be that Reformed and Wesleyans need each other -- the former providing the intellectual and analytical rigour, the latter the...