Postcards from Palookaville

Voddie Baucham has an excellent article on our pilgrim life here . A refreshing spot of realism and a good antidote to the obsession with trendy relevance that currently rules the roost.

I confess that I am still relishing Jim Garretson's two volumes on Princeton and the pastoral ministry . If you do not have them, you should buy them. These are those rarest of books: ones that you know on first reading will be companions for life. One prize essay is 'The Character of the Genuine...

I confess that I am still relishing Jim Garretson's two volumes on Princeton and the pastoral ministry . If you do not have them, you should buy them. These are those rarest of books: ones that you know on first reading will be companions for life. One prize essay is 'The Character of the Genuine...

Last week, I had the pleasure of doing a double act on 'evangelical identity' with Professor Darrell Bock, of Dallas Theological Seminary, at the Melbourne School of Theology. Professor Bock himself noted with cheerful irony that a double act involving a DTS and a WTS professor was itself...

Last week, I had the pleasure of doing a double act on 'evangelical identity' with Professor Darrell Bock, of Dallas Theological Seminary, at the Melbourne School of Theology. Professor Bock himself noted with cheerful irony that a double act involving a DTS and a WTS professor was itself...

Simonetta Carr is about to do it again. No, she is not pointing out the uncanny physical resemblance between a classic rock star and a great theologian of the past, as she did with famous Puritan and Westminster divine, Thomas Goodwin: and legendary drummer with LZ, John Bonham: Instead, she is...

Simonetta Carr is about to do it again. No, she is not pointing out the uncanny physical resemblance between a classic rock star and a great theologian of the past, as she did with famous Puritan and Westminster divine, Thomas Goodwin: and legendary drummer with LZ, John Bonham: Instead, she is...

Ligon Duncan drew my attention yesterday to a review by Diarmaid Macculloch of R. I. Moore's new book on medieval heresy and persecution. I have not yet read the book but these are my immediate reactions to the review. 1. The review itself is a top-notch church history lesson. I am reminded once...

Ligon Duncan drew my attention yesterday to a review by Diarmaid Macculloch of R. I. Moore's new book on medieval heresy and persecution. I have not yet read the book but these are my immediate reactions to the review. 1. The review itself is a top-notch church history lesson. I am reminded once...

Before my video interview with Dr. Packer last May, the two of us sat in a room at Regent discussing one of the passions which we both share - no, not bashing chinless upper class English schoolboys but rather our appreciation of the English Puritans - in relation to recent and contemporary...