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Xavier Pickett is blogging on a recent Washington Post study on black men. He's asking some significant questions about the role of the church in the area of the formation of Christian manhood that are applicable to all of us, though especially relevant to the subject matter of the Washington Post...

This morning at the Pastors' Conference prior to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention [SBC] (the annual cooperative gathering of the largest Protestant family of churches in the English-speaking world) in Greensboro, North Carolina, Alliance Council member Al Mohler (President of...

Baptist Press (BP) has produced a nice piece on the Al Mohler-Paige Patterson dialogue on Calvinism and evangelism/missions. You can read it here . As the title suggests, BP reports a desire that this issue not unnecessarily divide Baptists. That is actually a very positive thing - since it has...

Just moments ago, Alliance Council member Mark Dever was nominated to serve as the First Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention . The vote is going on now. We'll know something soon. Watch this space.

Here's the latest from Baptist Press: "Jimmy Jackson, pastor of Whitesburg Baptist Church in Huntsville, Ala., and Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., advanced to a runoff for first vice-president this evening at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting. "...

Mark Dever came tantalizingly close to being elected First Vice-President of the Southern Baptist Convention in Greensboro tonight. Andy Davis's nomination speech for Mark was superb, and Mark (to the surprise of many) led the voting in the first round of the election (in which there were four...

Guy Waters' helpful book on the Federal Vision is now in print. Here's the cover and a portion of David Calhoun's endorsement (many ref21 readers will immediately recognize Dr. Calhoun as a beloved and revered professor of Church History at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis). Federal...

It must be twenty years since the Bishop of Durham (not N. T. Wright, but his predecessor) called the resurrection a "conjuring trick with bones." Scripps Howard News Service together with Ohio University have published a poll on current belief in the resurrection. Check it out!

Read all about it. HT: Mark Dever

Well, I've been reveling in the rich biblical teaching of Sinclair Ferguson and Doug Kelly this afternoon at the PCA GA pre-conference on "The Westminster Confession for Today" (sponsored by RTS and a host of others). Sinclair addressed the issue of assurance, and argued persuasively that Calvin...