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Let's be honest nobody but nobody likes criticism. The words from a church member 'I'd like to meet up with you to talk about something' strike fear into every pastors heart. Immediately you think (well I do) I'm in for a telling off. More often than not that is the case but here is the vitally...

12 years old and reading Barth! Are you kidding me Liam? I am certain that there is nothing to do in Scotland hence how you've produced so many preachers and theologians, kids go the library and say 'have you got the latest Barth?' Anyway Jonny Gibson is a Northern Irishman studying for a phd in...

I was encourged by Carlton's report on the Westminster conference on Scripture (and only wish he'd reported Carl's spicy comments). It made me reflect on my own expereince of the outworking of a deficient view of the Bible's authority. The first theological book I read as a 12 year old boy living...

I was in discussion with some ministers earlier this week and we were talking about how to teach the Bible's story to our people. There was some debate about systematic theology versus biblical theology and which approach is best suited for communicating with a 21st century congregation. So I pose...

As the UK based bit of this blog Liam and I will try and do is give you some of the best things coming out in the UK and the many things you lot over there are inflicting on us. Iain D Campbell lives so far in the north of Scotland it's still 1953, up there they think the Puritan Paperbacks are new...

Recently, I've been working at editing a forthcoming book from last year's Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology. The material is so good that I will be sharing some of it here over the next few weeks, hopefully whetting your appetite for the book itself! Dr. Ligon Duncan, president of the...

UK Gay Population lower than expected< http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/8020574/Gay-population-much-lower-than-believed-first-official-figures-show.html > UK Koran Burning< http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/8020296/Six-arrested-in-Gateshead-over-Koran-burning.html >...

Last week we had an important visitor to my patch in west London. He was visiting the oldest Roman Catholic College in England just round the corner from Pope's Grotto - a pub named after Alexander Pope but quite appropriate, I thought, for the visit of Benedict XVI. He was also nearby one of our...

Gabe pointed out to me the following parody of the new perspective: it really is quite funny http://www.saet-online.org/tom-wright-reads-humpty-dumpty/09/

This week, we welcome four new regular contributors to the Ref21 blog: Paul Levy, Liam Goligher, Gabriel Furher and Carlton Wynne. I should make it clear that none of these names are aliases for Carl Trueman. Paul and Liam are both gospel-centered, Christ-exalting preachers from the UK and Gabe (...