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Hmmm. The usually sane Spectator has clearly lost the plot here . A sad day in the history of journalism when such a misleading and inaccurate report is published in such a prestigious organ. Ref21 readers need not worry: Trotter Minor and Trueman intend to keep the faith of their fathers.

Further to Phil's recent comment regarding A. N. Wilson's "slow return to faith," a reader has suggested that we point you to the full article in the New Statesman, here .

Trueman must be in Oregon. I recall the occasion to which he refers vividly (and, by the way, the best dinner EVER!). At first I thought my name was being dragged into the Miss California debacle. I'm pleading innocent, having never watched a beauty pageant in my life. But then, it was the Wagner...

Our friends at Christ the Center have recently interviewed Eric Alexander and it can be heard here .

Justin has an interesting blog on a new book here . So China is the future after all.....

With many relatives in the Highlands and Islands, it is interesting to see this proposal for covering the many vacancies that exist in these areas. What fascinates about the article, however, is the claim that live video link will mean that "a number of congregations would be able to experience and...

Those of you following our Calvin blog will have noticed an interruption last week. The individual concerned has been apprehended and sent to the dungeons of First Presbyterian Church where an extraction of penance is underway. Meanwhile, Carl Trueman blogs this week on topics ranging from faith,...

The English journalist and essayist A.N. Wilson, who abandoned the Christian faith some twenty years ago, reports that he has found his way back to Christianity. In a recent essay for the New Statesman he writes:

"From dullness of conscience, from feeble sense of duty, from thoughtless disregard of consequences to others, from a low idea of the obligations of our ministry, and from all half-heartedness in our office; Save us and help us, we humbly beseech thee, O Lord. "

"I lived at a time when a huge change in the contents of the human imagination was occurring. In my lifetime Heaven and Hell disappeared, the belief in life after death was considerably weakened, the borderline between man and animals, once so clear, ceased to be obvious under the impact of the...