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A couple of interesting news items have arrived on the desk of Trotter News International, the world's premier non-Murdoch-owned news outlet, courtesy of Britain's Daily Torygraph . First, brother Del looks set to make a financial killing in the sale of his automobile here . No need for the...

This past week, I received a copy of the 50th anniversary edition of John Stott's widely acclaimed best-seller, Basic Christianity. I first read this book in December 1971 as a thoroughly agnostic non-church-going freshman at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. I was reading Karl Popper at the...

Read it here . This should be pretty unsettling for anti-institutional pomo types. But I'd really love to know what our resident Marxist Historian thinks about the "Hunter Thesis."

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Further to my entry below, Steve Nichols appears on www.harvest-tv.com talking about his new book on blues music. He appears for about ten minutes or so about 20 minutes into the show. If you want see as well as hear him, this might be the place for you to go.

While preaching recently on the twelve apostles, I focussed on John's statement about Thomas: 'Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came'. John, of course, does not tell us why Thomas was missing, but his despondent, melancholy frame of mind was not helped by...

The guys over at Christ the Center have been interviewing Steve Nichols concerning his new book Getting the Blues . You may want to stick with the interview until 37.06 when Steve and the gang bring my expertise into the program. All of a sudden, the quality improves exponentially! The photo was...

The Washington Post recently interviewed Marilynne Robinson, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Gilead , and most recently, of Home . Here's how the interview begins: If you want to understand how different Marilynne Robinson is from other contemporary novelists -- how different, in fact, from...

The Gospel and Culture Project has launched a new website that will be of interest to most if not all readers of Reformation 21. The website is edited by Chris Simmons, who is an expert in film and who attended Philadelphia's Westminster Theological Seminary the same time I did. To access the...

During our earlier discussion of Tim Keller's book The Prodigal God , I pointed out the way some have used this parable to undermine the centrality of the atonement in salvation. I also stated that I was confident that Keller would handle this well. I was rewarded in my confidence by the following...