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Rupert Murdoch using his media empire to deny that God created the universe? I assume he's no relation to the gentleman of the same name who owns Fox News, the unbiased TV channel of Christian choice? Some mistake here, surely, boys?

For all those politco-obsessives who have been devouring Tony Blair's naval-gazing memoirs, there's at least one shocker: Bono could have been a Prime Minister or President! See, here .

Further evidence of the erosion of a Christian worldview as the BBC and The Times recently announced "God did not create the Universe" -- aka Rupert Murdoch and Stephen Hawking (see here ). In response, our friend David Robertson of the Dundee/Centre for Public Christianity (CPC) has produced the...

Beware those who pretend to be shepherds but are really ravening wolves. CRT's expose of the defective theology of `Rush' comes not a moment too soon. It appears that Pelagianism is being promoted through rock music even in some allegedly sound places . And I read in The Globe that "they" now play...

Sunday evening, at one of our infrequent sessions with the interns (supper and Q and A), Ligon and myself were asked an interesting question, one which has remained with me: what does a preacher do when confronted by differing opinions about the exegesis of a particular text? I thought I'd put the...

Carl, thanks for the thoughtful post. As usual, there's always food for thought--and I always want just a bit more nuance here or there! What do you think about how this all relates to a plurality of elders? It seems clear to me that the NT ideal is a group of qualified, godly men who lead the...

A bad week for Trueman, a good week for taxi drivers. Now he's upset the Lutherans -- say it ain't so! Clearly, his appeal to pray for the spread of the gospel in Germany should not have included prayer for the Reformed, as one Rev. McCain points out . The gospel is, after all, all about the...

In our Friday morning staff meeting (at First Presbyterian Church, Jackson that is), Ligon invariably asks me to lead in a devotional. This morning I reflected for a moment or two on the fact that on August 26, 1824, Karl Marx was baptized as a Lutheran. His Jewish father had declared himself a...

Is it just me, or has there been an outbreak this past week of embarrassing examples of Christians dialoging badly with one another in the public square? Off the top of my head: R. Scott Clark's blog response to Clark Pinnock's death was title, "Clark Pinnock Dies at Age 73; Was God Surprised?" Get...

I'm currently at the Puritan Reformed Conference in Grand Rapids, and thoroughly enjoying myself. 'The Beauty and Glory of Christ' - why did no-one think of a conference with this grand theme before? One of the blessings is books and other stalls...and today I picked up the CD of the Encyclopedia...