Postcards from Palookaville

I found this link on Dave Strain's website to another old pal, David `Robbo' Robertson, on YouTube. The meek shall inherit the earth; but Dundee ministers will sell their books on YouTube. Frightening enough to have Dave R's blog out there; now we have video-streaming. I need to reset the filters...

I found this link on Dave Strain's website to another old pal, David `Robbo' Robertson, on YouTube. The meek shall inherit the earth; but Dundee ministers will sell their books on YouTube. Frightening enough to have Dave R's blog out there; now we have video-streaming. I need to reset the filters...

Today I picked up a copy of a new book by my old pal, Neil MacDonald, with the fascinating title Metaphysics and the God of Israel (Baker). Neil approaches theology from a broadly Barthian perspective, though this book engages with a veritable pantheon of intellectual giants, from poets to...

Today I picked up a copy of a new book by my old pal, Neil MacDonald, with the fascinating title Metaphysics and the God of Israel (Baker). Neil approaches theology from a broadly Barthian perspective, though this book engages with a veritable pantheon of intellectual giants, from poets to...

Back in the UK I hear rumours that a certain well-known Welsh Baptist minister who read a piece I wrote in Themelios on J I Packer and the Anglo-Welsh evangelical crisis of 1966, has been heard to lament loudly at a recent conference (with more than a little Celtic irony), `What a disaster!...

Back in the UK I hear rumours that a certain well-known Welsh Baptist minister who read a piece I wrote in Themelios on J I Packer and the Anglo-Welsh evangelical crisis of 1966, has been heard to lament loudly at a recent conference (with more than a little Celtic irony), `What a disaster!...

Lunchtime conversations with minister friends in London indicates that the storm about Steve Chalke and penal substitution rumbles on in the UK. There are dark rumours of a certain well-known Christian book chain boycotting a popular presentation of the doctrine; there are whispers of other...

Lunchtime conversations with minister friends in London indicates that the storm about Steve Chalke and penal substitution rumbles on in the UK. There are dark rumours of a certain well-known Christian book chain boycotting a popular presentation of the doctrine; there are whispers of other...

Just finishing Bob Letham's brilliant and accessible Through Western Eyes: Eastern Orthodoxy -- a Reformed Perspective (Christian Focus). Typical of Bob's style -- awesome learning, accessible writing, and a fine critical exposition of the history and theology of Orthodoxy which is careful and...

Just finishing Bob Letham's brilliant and accessible Through Western Eyes: Eastern Orthodoxy -- a Reformed Perspective (Christian Focus). Typical of Bob's style -- awesome learning, accessible writing, and a fine critical exposition of the history and theology of Orthodoxy which is careful and...