Postcards from Palookaville

Once again, I put aside joking around just for a minute to ask blog readers to pray for my colleague, Alan Groves, and his family, as he struggles with cancer. See http://www.algroves.info/

Once again, I put aside joking around just for a minute to ask blog readers to pray for my colleague, Alan Groves, and his family, as he struggles with cancer. See http://www.algroves.info/

Some weeks back I noted a leading emergent webpage which spends it's time telling the reader how important and radical (in the Starbucks latte drinking sense of the word....) the particular person who writes on it is. I raised the question of how, in the marketplace of ideas, Christians can promote...

Some weeks back I noted a leading emergent webpage which spends it's time telling the reader how important and radical (in the Starbucks latte drinking sense of the word....) the particular person who writes on it is. I raised the question of how, in the marketplace of ideas, Christians can promote...

There is an obituary of J Alan Groves posted on the Westminster website, www.wts.edu , and a moving account of his last day on the family blog at www.algroves.info . In times of such loss, it is good to remember that Christianity is not a religion of healing -- such has nothing to say in the face...

There is an obituary of J Alan Groves posted on the Westminster website, www.wts.edu , and a moving account of his last day on the family blog at www.algroves.info . In times of such loss, it is good to remember that Christianity is not a religion of healing -- such has nothing to say in the face...

This is the quickest way to say thank you to the numerous readers of the Ref21 blog who have graciously taken the time to send in condolences and assurances of prayer regarding the death of Alan Groves, a dear friend and much-missed colleague. His funeral has just taken place and was both a...

This is the quickest way to say thank you to the numerous readers of the Ref21 blog who have graciously taken the time to send in condolences and assurances of prayer regarding the death of Alan Groves, a dear friend and much-missed colleague. His funeral has just taken place and was both a...

If one sign of a great theologian is his ability to sieze hold of the imagination of his readers witha single line, to disturb them, to fascinate them, to make them think, then Forsyth ranks near the top. Here's a few to start the week: `None but the great theologies of redemption are adequate to...

If one sign of a great theologian is his ability to sieze hold of the imagination of his readers witha single line, to disturb them, to fascinate them, to make them think, then Forsyth ranks near the top. Here's a few to start the week: `None but the great theologies of redemption are adequate to...