Reformation21

This is a message from the campus of African Bible University, Uganda, where I am spending a week with my son, Stephen. Along with Rev Burk Parsons of St Andrews Chapel, Florida, editor of Tabletalk, we are involved in the Spiritual Emphasis Week on campus. Burk is giving an exposition of John 17,...

The 28,000 Polish Catholic priests have been reprimanded by Father Wieslaw Przyczyna for plagiarising sermons off the internet. See the story here in Saturday's Guardian newspaper. Rumour has it that some have been downloading Trueman's sermons from the web. Can we expect a reformation to result?

This past weekend we had Keith and Kristyn Getty at the college for a concert. I know it's quite early in the century, but I will put what's left of my reputation as a church historian on the line in saying that "In Christ Alone" will be the hymn of the twenty-first century. It's the kind of hymn...

Reading John Wyclif `On the Pastoral office' with a ThM class this morning, I was struck by how he fulminated against the fact that clergy in his day only wanted to minister at big, lucrative, socially prestigious churches. Imagine my shock when I looked at the footnotes and realised that, no,...

"It takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant. To live by the truths of historic Protestantism, however, is an entirely different matter. That takes courage in today's context." Why? Wells answers: "The truths of historic Protestantism are sometimes no more welcome in evangelicalism than they are...

In his interview with Derek Thomas, Sean Lucas confessed to being a fan of country music. Since he's given the genre his imprimatur, I'll 'fess up, too. I, however, came to country music rather recently, when I met Tom Douglas in Nashville last fall. I was there to do a lecture and Tom was there to...

If you are looking for adult Sunday School material, written from a "means of grace", confessional point of view, I am enthusiastically suggesting that you take a look at the material being produced by the ARPs (Associate Reformed Presbyterian): The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Adult Quarterly...

Having preached a sermon that touched in part on the Christian Sabbath (the text was John 5:9-18), I followed it up with a pastor's letter that gave advice to those learning to keep the Sabbath. I though it might be of benefit to our readers here as well.

With apologies to Isaiah and Dick Cheney, I have emerged from my undisclosed location to offer my first post. Unlike my companions on this website, I am an utter novice at this. I read Wendell Berry, live next to Amish, and even drink milk from glass bottles. All of which is to say that the world...

Yes, Mr Thomas, the sisterhood has arrived on Ref21. And be careful -- it's not just me who will be posting, but I intend to offer some excellent, liberated, gynocentric commentary on the contemporary world as developed by my good friend, Dr Hysteria Snaptwig, uberblogger extraordinaire and author...