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The first week of September (!) I received my first piece of Christmas mail: a holiday subscription offer from Time magazine. This week I received a similar offer from Christianity Today . That's evangelical Christianity for you: a couple of weeks behind the cultural trendsetters, but trying hard...

One of the many books I enjoyed reading this summer was Original Sin , by Alan Jacobs. The book included this gem of a quotation from novelist Rebecca West: "If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time'."

Many of you may already know of this, but in case you don't . . . The folks at Christianity Today put out a wonderful bulletin insert called Glimpses of Christian History. It's a four-page, full color piece they put out monthly. It's edited by Mark Rogers. You can read about it and order it from...

Interesting interview here with Thabiti Anyabwile.

After three months on sabbatical, I am back to blogging again. I start with a quote from Time magazine's Joel Stein, who made a guest appearance with the improv troupe at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church. The group's leader explained that their goal was to give people a way to get friends to the...

Timothy George, writing at Christian Histor y, writes: "2009 is a good time to look again at Calvin's theology and its relationship to the Baptist movement. Here are five theological principles Baptists can learn from Calvin." (No, paedobaptism isn't one of them!)

In this five-hundredth anniversary of Calvin's birth, booksellers have flooded the marketplace with all things John Calvin. Of all the books published in this anniversary year, the one that stands head-and-shoulders above the rest is Bruce Gordon's Calvin . In fact, it is not too much to claim that...

Keith Mathison of Ligonier offers a helpful comparative review of these Bible software programs.

Last night I was inducted as minister of Point Free Church. Some information on the church is available on the church website here . Online sermons will be available here .

My colleague and teacher of Old Testament, Prof John L Mackay, has now had the second volume of his new commentary on Isaiah published. Details on the Evangelical Press website here . It is every bit as comprehensive and as helpful as the first volume; this is one of the best works on Isaiah to...