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You may be encouraged by this CMDA interview with Andrew Jamison , who was on US Airways flight 1549 that crash landed in the Hudson River in NY last month, and his wife Jennifer. They give a strong Christian witness. Andrew and Jennifer are both 4th year medical students at the Medical University...

Today, I had the privilege of teaching one of my seminars with a small group of students. The topic: New Perspective on Paul. No, it isn't an obsession. It just "happened" that this was the topic for today. Next door, through very thin walls, the resonant voice of Ligon Duncan could be heard...

Writing for National Review Online , Jay Nordlinger recounts a broadcast from Middle East Media Research Institute in which a Muslim cleric from Egypt defends no fault divorce. What interests me is the last line, which gives Christians more credit than we seem to deserve. The cleric says:

Mrs. Emma Peel, formerly of Academic Affairs at W.T.S. (whose work there with Dr. T, incidentally, has now become a cult British T.V. series ) brought my attention to the following story from the B.B.C. on the detrimental effect of Facebook. What can we say? Once again, Ref21 breaks a story and...

I had the privilege and joy of preaching and lecturing at Grove City College on Monday and Tuesday. More about that later. One of the joys of this was being about to renew fellowship with old friends, including Dr. T. David Gordon. He shared a wonderful insight with me on the doctrine of the...

A Sketch of the Christian Catechism by William Ames, the first volume of the promising series Classic Reformed Theology, is available through Reformation Heritage here . Todd Rester, PhD student at Calvin Theological Seminary under Richard Muller and former student of mine, offers a fresh...

In recognition of the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, the Kairos Journal recently reminded its readers of the subtitle to the evolutionist's magnum opus, The Origin of the Species . What is the book's subtitle? The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life . This obviously opens the...

Timothy George has a nice piece in First Things about Rick Warren and his inaugural prayer, especially the fact that he prayed in the name of Jesus. At the close, he asks whether "Christians must hide their faith in the inner reserve of their private consciousness." They must not do so, says George...

RAP aka Reformed Academic Press have come of age and have announced a brand new website here . Among the titles RAP publish are works by Terry Johnson, Richard Gaffin, Herman Witsius and William Beveridge.

I have been doing some work on the glory of God recently and came across this quote from Augustine in The City of God. It's lengthy, but worthwhile to ponder. It seems that the question of where glory resides, or how glory is defined, is paramount for Augustine. Everything, such as ethics and...