Reformation21

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has announced plans to run a month-long series of ads on 30 London buses. The ads read: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life." Word for word, the ad may contain more ironies than any other eleven-word slogan in the history of...

I remember Monty Python's Meaning of Life for several reasons. I got in to see it under age (which always made the move somehow more enjoyable, however poor the quality -- my equivalent of Augustine's stealing the pears, I guess). I thought Mr Creosote was truly the most revolting thing I had ever...

I wanted to draw attention to two recent publications from Scottish academics: I. Howard Marshall's A Concise New Testament Theology (IVP) is an abridgement of his recent New Testament Theology , and is a very accessible survey of the issues and themes in the theology of each of the New Testament...

Collin Hansen looks at the recent proceedings of the Synod of Roman Catholic bishops who have been revisiting the "inerrancy compromise" that was reached at Vatican II.

R. Scott Clark has a new book out, published by P&R: Recovering the Reformed Confession: Our Theology, Piety, and Practice . Here's the heart of it: "It is the argument of this book that the Reformed confession is the only reasonable basis for a stable definition of the Reformed theology, piety...

It was good to see Rick going off on his Wall Street rant -- another indication of the salutary influence that preaching through the minor prophets has had on him. I recently read through his manuscript on Micah and can tell everyone that it will make an excellent contribution to the Reformed...

Special thanks to Iain Campbell for giving us a distinctively Scottish contribution by cautioning against the evils of prodigality! Of course Iain is quite right to say that prodigality is not an attribute of God, per se, and that God's mercy is not wasteful, but commensurate with the economy of...

Ligonier Ministries have just released a CD ( here ) of the Master's College Chorale (conducted by Dr. Paul T. Plew), called Light All Around . It also includes Dr. R. C. Sproul narrating sections of the book of Revelation. Simply wonderful!

I've been attending a very engaging Sunday School class this quarter on Ephesians, taught by John Light, an associate pastor at our church. This past Sunday we were reviewing chapter two and chapter three. To impress upon the remarkable nature of the Jew Gentile union, the one new humanity Paul...

For those following Mark Johnston's series on the Apostles' Creed on ref21, you may be interested in a new web site for the church where he has been ministering for more than a dozen years in London: http://www.grovechapel.org/ .