Postcards from Palookaville

In the context of recent discussion, readers might want to check out Patrick Henry Reardon's Christ in the Psalms (Conciliar Press). Reardon, an Orthodox priest, has done a great job of producing a thoughtful, devotional, Christological reading of the Psalter. The underlying text/numbering is that...

In the context of recent discussion, readers might want to check out Patrick Henry Reardon's Christ in the Psalms (Conciliar Press). Reardon, an Orthodox priest, has done a great job of producing a thoughtful, devotional, Christological reading of the Psalter. The underlying text/numbering is that...

My good friend, Iain D Campbell, Free Church minister in Back, Isle of Lewis (from where all the best and most beautiful wives hail!) has posted a typically thoughtful paper on his website dealing with just the kind of issues upon which the blog has been touching these last days. Here's the link:...

My good friend, Iain D Campbell, Free Church minister in Back, Isle of Lewis (from where all the best and most beautiful wives hail!) has posted a typically thoughtful paper on his website dealing with just the kind of issues upon which the blog has been touching these last days. Here's the link:...

I was talking with someone last week about a well-known theological personality. `I don't think he wants to be a heretic' was my friend's comment. `No,' I responded `I think the problem is he wants to be a big shot.' It reminded me of the reflections of another friend on a New Testament passage...

I was talking with someone last week about a well-known theological personality. `I don't think he wants to be a heretic' was my friend's comment. `No,' I responded `I think the problem is he wants to be a big shot.' It reminded me of the reflections of another friend on a New Testament passage...

The First Things webpage carries a very interesting, and in parts very moving, article, What is Anglicanism? , written by the Ugandan church leader, Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi. I'm generally not a big fan of Anglicanism as a phenomenon (mourning every day for the failure of the Grand Old Cause)...

The First Things webpage carries a very interesting, and in parts very moving, article, What is Anglicanism? , written by the Ugandan church leader, Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi. I'm generally not a big fan of Anglicanism as a phenomenon (mourning every day for the failure of the Grand Old Cause)...

With reference to Rick's posts, I have concerns with antithesis/fundamentalism -- not with the doctrinal distinctives which he rightly praises but with the cultic mentality to which this can give rise and, indeed, to the postmodern hermeneutics which it can in fact ironically foster. Just a few...

With reference to Rick's posts, I have concerns with antithesis/fundamentalism -- not with the doctrinal distinctives which he rightly praises but with the cultic mentality to which this can give rise and, indeed, to the postmodern hermeneutics which it can in fact ironically foster. Just a few...