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My former colleague in ministry in Belfast and good friend, Dr. John Ross, currently at Dumisani Theological Institute (King William's Town, South Africa) has written a fascinating piece on missions here . Ref21 readers will find it well worth reading.

If you haven't read Paul Helm latest review of Professor Charles' Partee's book, The Theology of John Calvin , do so immediately. You will find it here . As they say in Belfast, "It's a cracker!"

I just want to make a plug for the new journal from Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. The second edition of Puritan Reformed Journal is now available. I have increasingly been finding theological journals rather esoteric, philosophical and generally unhelfpul (with some exceptions, of course...

One of the best books that I've read recently is Paul Miller's A Praying Life . I had quoted from it a few days ago, but that does not sum up the impact the book made on me. I've read a lot of books on prayer, but I've not read one as practical and thought-provoking, realistic and hopeful. In 32...

Machen's birthday (July 28) went almost unnoticed (blame Calvin), but our friend Martin Downes has put together a helpful Machen resource here .

The latest issue of Themelios is now online. In addition to a number of reviews there are lots of pieces worth reading: Carson on polemical theology, Trueman on advice for those thinking about a PhD, essays on Luther and baptismal regeneration, Calvin on union with Christ, etc. You can access it...

In the continued coverage of the decision of the Church of Scotland to appoint an openly gay minister, our friend, David Robertson, editor of the Monthly Record (the official magazine of the Free Church of Scotland) has recently been cited in The Times newspaper as well as the Scottish press in...

I seem to recall recently reading something from the good Dr. Trueman on the subversive nature of reciting the Apostle's Creed. Then today I came across this as I was reading the good Dr. Packer: "Each worshiper . . . has come into the hands of the Christian God where he is glad to be, and when he...

Phil, Your comments about Pennington sent me through piles of articles and things left on the cutting floor for The Decline. One other person not included in the book but worthy of some ink is Wiliam Douglass. Douglass served for 19 years as Minister of St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church in--...

So far I have surprised myself by sticking to my intended reading list for the Summer, and have just finished Machiel A. Van Den Berg's excellent paperback, Friends of Calvin. This collection of twenty-four of Calvin's colleagues, contemporaries, relations, friends and (in some cases) treacherous...