Postcards from Palookaville

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...

I recently joined the Advisory Board of the Tolle Lege Institute , a great organisation committed to the translation and distribution of Reformed literature in Polish. The driving force behind the group is Dariusz Brycko who can be seen here giving a lecture on Machen on education. The Institute's...

I recently joined the Advisory Board of the Tolle Lege Institute , a great organisation committed to the translation and distribution of Reformed literature in Polish. The driving force behind the group is Dariusz Brycko who can be seen here giving a lecture on Machen on education. The Institute's...

As it is a rest day in the Tour, and Team Sky/Bradley Wiggins are in a very strong position before hitting the mountain stages this week, I find myself with a few hours to spare. In the time since Paul Levy's challenge last week, I have noticed that Iain Murray has published a review of the Lloyd-...

As it is a rest day in the Tour, and Team Sky/Bradley Wiggins are in a very strong position before hitting the mountain stages this week, I find myself with a few hours to spare. In the time since Paul Levy's challenge last week, I have noticed that Iain Murray has published a review of the Lloyd-...

I will certainly be responding to the Graham Harrison review which seems to confirm I am about as welcome these days in Wales as I am in Illinois. As the Emperor Gaius once declared, Let them hate me etc. etc. It is great to see that 'scholastic Reformed Orthodoxy' is still a pejorative term out...

I will certainly be responding to the Graham Harrison review which seems to confirm I am about as welcome these days in Wales as I am in Illinois. As the Emperor Gaius once declared, Let them hate me etc. etc. It is great to see that 'scholastic Reformed Orthodoxy' is still a pejorative term out...

This week's Back to Basics is on the Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper is one of the most basic activities of the church. More ink hit more pages in the Reformation on this topic than on any other, including justification and authority. Yet the proportion of material on the issue produced in...

This week's Back to Basics is on the Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper is one of the most basic activities of the church. More ink hit more pages in the Reformation on this topic than on any other, including justification and authority. Yet the proportion of material on the issue produced in...

Practical Ethics , a webpage based at the University of Oxford, has an interesting post on research that suggests a society's crime rate will be higher where there is widespread rejection of the notion of hell. Statistics are statistics, of course, and so the findings will no doubt be contested;...