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Three wise brothers--CJ Mahaney, Joshua Harris, and Jeff Purswell--have given another podcast for pastors, entitled The Pastor and His Time . If you click the link above you can see the previous podcasts: The Pastor and His Reading The Pastor and His Soul The Pastor and His Joy

Tullian Tchividjian passed along some info about the new documentary being developed around David Wells's book, The Courage to Be Protestant . The project is called The Church in the Matrix : The American Evangelical church met the culture....and the culture won . In spite of the vitality of its...

posted by Ligon Duncan Folks, sometimes God acts through his people in such a way to reduce us to a heap of praise to him for his kindness. There are so many kindnesses that have been directed to the Christians in Mississippi from fellow believers all around the country and world in the last...

Posted by Czar Nicholas Llanybydder Our illustrious President (of the Alliance, that is) blogged this morning and when I returned after 4 hours of class, it had disappeared. Whoosh... A phantom blog-disposer is at work and Dwn Corleone has been informed and is sending round his boys. Fess up! Who...

Posted by Derek Thomas So, our twisted sense of humor, as we teased Carl about famous Englishmen, somewhat backfired. To the dozens of you who sent e-mail letting us know that our famous screen personalities were not English, we knew that! We were having fun with our favorite Englishman. Right! We...

Posted by Derek Thomas Some time ago, I purchased a tiny little volume by Edward Bickersteth, A Companion to the Holy Communion . This particular edition is the twelfth, published in 1888 and measures 2" X 3". It is a pocket-sized companion designed to "assist their Devotions, in preparing for the...

Posted by Derek Thomas "Cal M..." is partly right, of course. I for one do have emotional ties with dear friends in the C of S. As I do of friends in the PCUSA (a colleague with whom I work on a daily basis and a few students, now ministers in that denomination). I listen sympathetically as they...

Posted by Derek Thomas I spent the last day in Grand Rapids, at Joel Beeke's seminary--The Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary--buried in their fascinating puritan library. It is one of the finest in the country, I should imagine. What with Calvin Seminary just down the road and PRTS, serious...

Well, we've arrived at the date. Wonder what they were thinking in Europe on June 6, 1006? Whatever the answer, Kim Riddlebarger's new book The Man of Sin: Uncovering the Truth about the AntiChrist (Baker) should be a rewarding read.

posted by Derek Thomas Harvard University has announced it will begin cloning human embryos.The scientists say that they plan to harvest stem cells in the hope that they might be able to fight blood diseases like leukaemia and diabetes. In this Huxlian scenario, as Oliver O'Donovan, Regius...