Postcards from Palookaville

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...

One of the most enjoyable aspects of preaching is the way that it forces one to look in more detail at biblical texts than one would typically so do; and this often throws up odd textual peculiarities and apparent throwaway lines that, on reflection, are anything but irrelevant. One such occurs in...

One of the most enjoyable aspects of preaching is the way that it forces one to look in more detail at biblical texts than one would typically so do; and this often throws up odd textual peculiarities and apparent throwaway lines that, on reflection, are anything but irrelevant. One such occurs in...

This Friday, Proclamation Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Bryn Mawr, PA, is hosting a lecture by Iain Murray on Doctor Lloyd-Jones. You can find the details here . This last Friday, I had the privilege of being in Vancouver to give Dr. James I. Packer an honorary doctorate and to interview him for the...

This Friday, Proclamation Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Bryn Mawr, PA, is hosting a lecture by Iain Murray on Doctor Lloyd-Jones. You can find the details here . This last Friday, I had the privilege of being in Vancouver to give Dr. James I. Packer an honorary doctorate and to interview him for the...

Not to be outdone in terms of the new passion for evangelical non-celebrity book tours, here is a shot of me flogging a copy of my book to one of the men I most admire. His smile clearly indicates his conversion to my way of thinking:

Not to be outdone in terms of the new passion for evangelical non-celebrity book tours, here is a shot of me flogging a copy of my book to one of the men I most admire. His smile clearly indicates his conversion to my way of thinking:

One of the striking things about modern society is the lack of respect it shows for hierarchies and institutions. I do not see this, as some appear to do, as a unique contribution of this age. For all the trumpeting of the disillusion of contemporary youth with institutions, today's young people on...

One of the striking things about modern society is the lack of respect it shows for hierarchies and institutions. I do not see this, as some appear to do, as a unique contribution of this age. For all the trumpeting of the disillusion of contemporary youth with institutions, today's young people on...

Reading both Doug Sweeney's post and Bill Evans' comments, I find much with which I agree. One thing, however, perturbs me slightly and that is what was not said. Of course, no-one can say everything on a subject so this is not a criticism of either Doug or Bill; it is, however, a criticism of the...