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As some of you know I am currently the Review Editor for the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology , published jointly by Rutherford House and the Scottish Evangelical Theological Society . With the permission of the Ref21 editor-in-chief, I am going to use this blog to try to solicit possible...

My Summer reading has started with John R. Muether's new biography of Cornelius Van Til, which I am enjoying. My theological reading list for the next few weeks includes Michael Haykin and Kenneth Stewart's The Emergence of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical Continuities , a collection of essays...

As promised, a gem from The Beauty of God . Here is a stanza from Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner's "Nunc Dimittis" -- part of a series of post 9/11 poems based on a funeral liturgy: We will follow the coffin back down the aisle trusting the dead to the extravagance of dust from which they came, knowing...

Alas, things have been so busy that I have not really entered into the mode of summer reading yet -- at least what I would call summer reading. But I did have some long airplane flights last week, so I have done some reading. Completed so far are James Tunstead Burtchaell's The Dying of the Light...

Since I asked all of you about summer reading, I'll list my own, starting (like Sean) with Andrew McGowan's, The Divine Authenticity of Scripture (IVP). I read the British version which was called The Divine Spiration... , and I'm hoping the change of title in the US edition means that other things...

For delightful reading, John Kennedy's The Days of the Fathers in Ross-shire is unbeatable. For a study of the ministers and men of Ross-shire in Scotland in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, it is indispensable. In the following passage Kennedy describes the preachers of his youth, and...

Our intrepid director requested that we blog about our summer reading; since I know I will either throw some of these books to the side, complete others, and start new ones, this is my first installment (in various stages, all on my bedside table): 1) William P. Young, The Shack 2) Mark Dever, 9...

". . . softening hard truth for evangelism in public undermines truth for the waffling believer in private. I think in general this is what cultural adapters fail to realize: making the truth more palatable for unbelievers to help them make a step toward orthodoxy serves even more (it seems...

T he second volume in the Calvin 500 Series has appeared , a series of volumes written or edited by David Hall celebrating the 500th anniversary (in 2009) of the birth of John Calvin. I've just finished reading The Legacy of John Calvin (published this month by P & R). It is by far and away the...

Has anyone solved Tim Challies' test yet? It's been driving me crazy! I know some of these but can I identify them? I've been saying, "I know that one, it's... Oh, what is it called again?" Can you do it? See, here . And, while I'm here, have you seen that Redeemer in New York is having a Wagner...