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The worst maritime disaster in peacetime in British waters took place on the Isle of Lewis ninety years ago, on 1 January 1919. The yacht Iolaire (Gaelic for 'eagle') was returning some two hundred and fifty Lewismen who were returning from the trenches of the First World War when she went off...

Two British missionaries in Gambia, West Africa, have been imprisoned for a year for sending anti-Islamic e-mail. See the full story here .

Phil is out of the country and asked me to post this: Tenth Presbyterian Church is hosting its 4 th annual Workshop on Biblical Exposition, February 4 to 6, on the theme of Apocalyptic Literature. The workshop is sponsored by the Charles Simeon Trust and supported by the Alliance of Confessing...

I received the following "Christmas meditation" from Dr. Ray Van Neste (Ryan Center for Biblical Studies,; see his blog here ): It seems that many people think you can only celebrate Christmas if all is well. You can see this in the various statements beginning with, "It just does not seem like...

There is so much irony wrapped up in Rick Warren's invitation to invoke God's blessing on the inauguration of Barak Obama that I am astonished that Carl Trueman has not written more about it. The news is that the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender (can they really say this with a straight face?)...

David Meredith (Free Church of Scotland, Smithton/Culloden) sent me the following: The new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has caused some raised eyebrows in educational circles. Several supposedly old-fashioned words have been removed. A report in the Daily Telegraph shows that many of the...

We've received hundreds of requests for the Calvin blog reading schedule. The office will be sending them out today, I'm told but if you haven't yet asked for one then contact us right away at r21@alliancenet.org and we'll get one to you. I have also learned of special discount prices on Calvin's...

Pope Benedict XVI has declared the world in need of saving - from homosexuality and gender bending. And this, two days before Christmas! Has the man no taste or decency? The press is understandably in an uproar - it has been after all a fairly slow news week thus far, with the juiciest story being...

I am finally holding in my own hands Guy Richard's The Supremacy of God in the Theology of Samuel Rutherford (Paternoster) . David Fergusson (sic), of New College, Edinburgh calls it "a landmark in Rutherford scholarship." In it, Guy (a dear friend, fellow pastor, former student, intern and staff...

Trotter's "Aryan" piece reminds me that another "arianism" is being talked about over on the other side of the pond. Seems like Archbishop Rowan Williams is not only an expert on Arianism (which he is), but is also contemplating disestablismentarianism! What would the Church of England look like...