Postcards from Palookaville

As this nation, if not the world (BBC2 clearing its schedules????), embarrasses itself in California this morning, it's good to read somebody who nails the problem .

So the Catholics have their relics and we have our.... commemorative volumes? How long before John Calvin Soap on A Rope? A signed photo of Del at the Reformers' wall? Would that qualify as a Derelic, I wonder? Del's comments on Geneva (where, despite the strange rumours, I am not and never have...

So the Catholics have their relics and we have our.... commemorative volumes? How long before John Calvin Soap on A Rope? A signed photo of Del at the Reformers' wall? Would that qualify as a Derelic, I wonder? Del's comments on Geneva (where, despite the strange rumours, I am not and never have...

Three things of note: 1. The interview between Mark Dever and Ken Myers at 9Marks is worth a listen. Myers is particularly interesting on blogs -- he rarely reads them, and never bothers with the comment threads, given their status as the haunt of those well-balanced people with chips on both...

Three things of note: 1. The interview between Mark Dever and Ken Myers at 9Marks is worth a listen. Myers is particularly interesting on blogs -- he rarely reads them, and never bothers with the comment threads, given their status as the haunt of those well-balanced people with chips on both...

OK, I don't point people to the National Review very often but, as I get older, balder, and descend further into the demented netherworld of MMAGdom, some of it does start to make more sense (especially now that I see Westminster has sold out and joined Facebook, proving, incidentally, that,...

OK, I don't point people to the National Review very often but, as I get older, balder, and descend further into the demented netherworld of MMAGdom, some of it does start to make more sense (especially now that I see Westminster has sold out and joined Facebook, proving, incidentally, that,...

One of the striking things about popular representations of public executions in the eighteenth century is the contrast between the French and the English approach. French artists typically ignored the gathered crowd and focused in detail on the face of the one about to be executed (there is,...

One of the striking things about popular representations of public executions in the eighteenth century is the contrast between the French and the English approach. French artists typically ignored the gathered crowd and focused in detail on the face of the one about to be executed (there is,...

Our friends at Southern Seminary are set for a bumper summer relative to publishing. First, there is the new biography by Tom Nettles of founding president, James Petigru Boyce . Then there are two collections of early Southern Baptist writings from Boyce, Basil Manly Sr., and Basil Manly Jr. The...