Postcards from Palookaville

A friend sent me this link earlier today. It raises a number of issues in my mind, a bit like seeing a dog walking on two legs. One instinctively knows it is strange and feels it is wrong; but as with many such well-intentioned things, it can be hard to articulate precisely why. Well, here is my...

A group of Polish Reformed believers are raising funds to translate Machen's important little book, Christianity and Liberalism , into Polish. Anyone interested in helping with this project can find out how at this link to the Tolle Lege Insitute . The book didn't sell more than 30 million copies...

A group of Polish Reformed believers are raising funds to translate Machen's important little book, Christianity and Liberalism , into Polish. Anyone interested in helping with this project can find out how at this link to the Tolle Lege Insitute . The book didn't sell more than 30 million copies...

The interview with Dr. Packer is now online . The comment on Lloyd-Jones to which I referred in an earlier post is not in the interview -- must have happened over lunch. But the testimony to God's grace in his own life, his reflections on the Puritans and on Lloyd-Jones and his advice to young...

The interview with Dr. Packer is now online . The comment on Lloyd-Jones to which I referred in an earlier post is not in the interview -- must have happened over lunch. But the testimony to God's grace in his own life, his reflections on the Puritans and on Lloyd-Jones and his advice to young...

First, it seems only polite to thank all the baptists who wrote to me yesterday to express appreciation for my Baptist History 101 lesson. Believe me, the pleasure was all mine. And you all spelled my name correctly, which was very touching. To be honest, just knowing that my diversion of you from...

First, it seems only polite to thank all the baptists who wrote to me yesterday to express appreciation for my Baptist History 101 lesson. Believe me, the pleasure was all mine. And you all spelled my name correctly, which was very touching. To be honest, just knowing that my diversion of you from...

Danny Hyde's excellent book on infant baptism is available at a discount price from the Westminster bookstore. A very readable and thoughtful piece, it would make a most excellent gift for Nine Marks interns, Mark Dever, that special Gospel Coalition member in your life or any other examples of...

Danny Hyde's excellent book on infant baptism is available at a discount price from the Westminster bookstore. A very readable and thoughtful piece, it would make a most excellent gift for Nine Marks interns, Mark Dever, that special Gospel Coalition member in your life or any other examples of...

Apparently, a church in Oregon is suing a former member and her daughter for defamation on a blog. Apart from the difficulty of mounting a successful suit for defamation under the US's admirably lax defamation laws (where not only factual error but deliberate malice must be proved), the whole idea...