Postcards from Palookaville

There's a fascinating article in The London Review of Books by Jonathan Raban on Neil Entwistle, the Englishman who murdered his American wife and child a year or two ago. The article is worth reading for a number of reasons. First, it is perhaps the best description and analysis of the strange...

For any moshers out there who might be interested: Ben Witherington, evangelical NT scholar, has been posting a series of `classic rock' lists on his blog, showing that he is not simply one of the most readable and lucid NT scholars for idiots like myself from outside the field; he's also a man of...

For any moshers out there who might be interested: Ben Witherington, evangelical NT scholar, has been posting a series of `classic rock' lists on his blog, showing that he is not simply one of the most readable and lucid NT scholars for idiots like myself from outside the field; he's also a man of...

One of my students brought to my attention the fact that ChristianAudio.com are offering Augustine's Confessions as their free download of the month for August. You'll find the link here . As a former student once said in chapel, `Dr Trueman told us in Ancient Church that if you have never read...

One of my students brought to my attention the fact that ChristianAudio.com are offering Augustine's Confessions as their free download of the month for August. You'll find the link here . As a former student once said in chapel, `Dr Trueman told us in Ancient Church that if you have never read...

`The bell and the can and the bodies on the floor.' So goes a line from Mark Knopfler's `Ode to Sonny Liston.' Well, two heavyweight bruisers of more recent vintage are engaged in a slugfest over at First Things : N T Wright and R J Neuhaus. It's fun to see Wright taking the `Hayek's economics...

`The bell and the can and the bodies on the floor.' So goes a line from Mark Knopfler's `Ode to Sonny Liston.' Well, two heavyweight bruisers of more recent vintage are engaged in a slugfest over at First Things : N T Wright and R J Neuhaus. It's fun to see Wright taking the `Hayek's economics...

Robert Gagnon, who knows first-hand the loving tolerance and respect for dissident scholarship of certain circles, has chimed in very helpfully on the Heidelberg Catechism issue here .

Robert Gagnon, who knows first-hand the loving tolerance and respect for dissident scholarship of certain circles, has chimed in very helpfully on the Heidelberg Catechism issue here .

but I do think the PCUSA dropping of the explicit reference to homosexuality in Heidelberg Catechism 87 does represent a better translation of the original German than the 1967 gloss/addition. Of course, we can have our suspicions about why the PCUSA is making this move now, but unbiblical motives...