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In his memoirs, Hans Küng describes giving a lecture at the time of Vatican II at which the church historians present sniggered. While he saw the Council as this great opportunity for real change, he considered the church historians' reaction to be typical of this particular guild. They had seen it...

Most Christians, if they have heard of Desiderius Erasmus at all, know of him as the man who helped put the Greek New Testament into the hands of churchmen in the sixteenth century and thus paved the way for the Reformation; or perhaps they recognize him as the great opponent of Martin Luther on...

On Choosing a Seminary William B. Evans In my current academic position I do a good deal of pre-seminary advising. Undergraduate students often come to my office expressing an interest in attending a theological seminary after they complete their bachelor's degree at the College where I teach. I...

The Trials and Tribulations of the ARP Church, Part 2 Last year about this time I wrote an article for this website entitled "Whither or Wither?: The Trials and Tribulations of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church." In it I identified a number of challenges facing the ARP Church: an ongoing...

(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...

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...

One of the amusing things I have noticed in the last twelve months or so has been a shift in the rhetoric used by members of the older generation (40 plus) surrounding what twenty- and thirty-somethings will believe. Five years ago, I had the privilege of hearing a lecture by Leonard Sweet,...

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...