Postcards from Palookaville

....when politicians are behaving with the same honour and integrity as we have come to expect from certain church leaders. Not using `theological leverage' or being `relationally mobile' with their best friend's wife; merely `misspeaking' apparently. See here .

The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland today voted to call Professor John L. Mackay as the new Principal of Free Church College, to succeed Donald Macleod. Ref21 sends its congratulations to Prof. Mackay and its best wishes to him in his new position, with the warning that academic...

The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland today voted to call Professor John L. Mackay as the new Principal of Free Church College, to succeed Donald Macleod. Ref21 sends its congratulations to Prof. Mackay and its best wishes to him in his new position, with the warning that academic...

The news yesterday, when not preoccupied with the Icelandic volcano, was buzzing with reports that an Apple employee had left his new iPhone (as yet unreleased to the public) in a bar where its significance had not been missed. Was this a disastrous error by a (presumably soon-to-be-ex) employee?...

The news yesterday, when not preoccupied with the Icelandic volcano, was buzzing with reports that an Apple employee had left his new iPhone (as yet unreleased to the public) in a bar where its significance had not been missed. Was this a disastrous error by a (presumably soon-to-be-ex) employee?...

British writer Dominic Lawson has an interesting article comparing the situation of the Pope with that of Roman Polanski here . What he observes fits nicely with the thesis that the postmodern world is one of aesthetics (forget the `linguistic turn' sideshow), and that organised religion is...

British writer Dominic Lawson has an interesting article comparing the situation of the Pope with that of Roman Polanski here . What he observes fits nicely with the thesis that the postmodern world is one of aesthetics (forget the `linguistic turn' sideshow), and that organised religion is...

I had the pleasure and privilege on Saturday of attending a shepherding seminar conducted by my colleague, Tim Witmer, for the session of my local church. The material (found in his recent book) was outstanding, and the Q and As excellent: six church officers quizzing a seventh about the...

I had the pleasure and privilege on Saturday of attending a shepherding seminar conducted by my colleague, Tim Witmer, for the session of my local church. The material (found in his recent book) was outstanding, and the Q and As excellent: six church officers quizzing a seventh about the...

It's been a good month or two for books. In addition to Kevin DeYoung's great little devotional commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, The Good News We Almost Forgot (Moody), there is also J.I. Packer and Gary A. Parrett's learned and provocative argument for putting catchesis back at the heart of...