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Our Presbytery this week organised a lecture delivered by Professor Donald Macleod of the Free Church College, Edinburgh, on the theme of 'Our Debt to the Scottish Reformation'. It was outstanding, and well worth tuning in here to give it a listen.

Well, it's surely been too long since Ref21 called on that most informed section of the thoughtful public, taxi drivers, for a critical take on current events. In the wake of Carl Trueman's recent interview on Reformed Forum about his forthcoming book, Republocrat , we wanted to find out what your...

Amid all of the hoo-hah about the flight attendant who lost his rag at the end of a flight, threw a foul-mouthed benny (as we say in the UK), exited the plane by emergency chute and is now (according to some reports) to be rewarded with a reality TV show, are some real insights into our day and age...

Our friends at bringthebooks.org have just posted this. Can you name the three? Think: a Scotsman, a Dutchman and and a Welshman... http://www.bringthebooks.org/2010/08/three-reformed-amigos.html

Carl Trueman's latest book, Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative (P & R), is due out shortly and you can find a video discussion of the book here by our friends in Christ the Center . Perhaps I should not mention that I (positively) blurbed the book lest my reputation be shattered...

My good Catholic friend, the well-known German lay intellectual, Count Wolfram von Hofmeister-Behr, has brought to my attention this article, outlining Benedict XVI's thirty year campaign to undo the liberalizing trends of Vatican II. One thing perplexes me, however, as humble Prod outsider to all...

Crossway's ESV BIBLE ATLAS by John D. Currid and David P. Barrett First, I declare a bias - well, two if I may: that I know John Currid (one of the co-authors of this volume -he's a colleague and a dear friend), and I have something of an obsession for Bible Atlases. After all, what is more...

So former Welsh international rugby player and British and Irish Lions captain, Gareth Thomas, has made number 1 on the Independent on Sunday 's annual Pink List. While one is tempted to ask what his former wife thinks of this recognition, what is of more interesting to us Trotterskyite aesthetes...

Other than the complete lack of a sneering judge with an English accent, it seems that the first series of `Imam Idol' has been a great success, at least if the BBC report is anything to go by. So Islam has reasserted its place in the cultural avant garde for the first time since the Middle Ages...

The Church History ABCs by Stephen Nichols & Ned Bustard (Crossway, 2010) Delightfully produced, hilariously illustrated, the Church History ABCs captures the imagination by introducing children to 26 characters from church history, from Augustine to Zwingli. Bunyan was asked for a blurb (he...