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(and reading Frank Schaeffer) As I read Frank Schaeffer's latest book, I kept hearing the sound of Thin Lizzy's `The Boys Are Back In Town' playing in my head. Why, I wondered, was I being haunted at this moment by the track that must have been the theme tune of every teenage male wannabe in...

Papa dixit. The recent interview with Benedict XVI [Editor's Note:] This is the third of a series on Roman Catholicism in the 21st century. A new entry in the series should follow every three weeks]. If you were given the opportunity to meet the Pope in person, what would you ask him? In a video on...

Word of the Lord and/or Word of the Church? The Bible in a recent papal pronouncement [Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series on Roman Catholicism in the 21st century. A new entry in the series should follow every three weeks]. The Bible is central in the long-standing controversy between...

A Christian is someone who has obeyed the gracious command of Jesus Christ, "Look to me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other" (Is 45.22). As one believing into Jesus, the individual who was once a lost and wandering sinner is made a new creation in Christ...

Editors' note: Below is the complete transcription of the sermon Dr. Joel Beeke preached on the tenth anniversary of September 11. O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto...

The recent book, Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism has been stirring up some interest on the web. While I have not yet had the chance to read the whole thing, one aspect does strike me as of potentially particular interest to the Ref21 constituency: R. Albert Mohler's use of the term `...

Reflections on Between the Times: the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Transition, 1945-1990 (Willow Grove: OPC) This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. To mark the occasion, well-known scholarly historian, Reformed pundit and OPC elder, D G...

Readers of this column will know the various chips I have on my shoulders. At least I hope they do. I try to wear my chips with a certain amount of unapologetic panache, after all. One of them is disco music. Another is the middle-aged pastor with the soul patch. And one of the more serious is my...

One of the more effective strategies in converting an Anabaptist to a Pedobaptist is to have him examine the ancient term oikos or "household." It certainly worked in my case. I poured over literature handed to me by kind elders and teachers who not only wanted me to feel at home in a new...

In our day, unlike in the days of generations past, we have much too simplistic a view of what it means to believe something. In the world today, many people use the word "believe" to describe their feelings about something or describe a fleeting wish or hopeful desire. But as we consider the word...