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Philip Johnston in yesterday's edition of The Daily Telegraph newspaper.gave a chilling account of what the latest European Union legal rulings will mean for Britain. He took as his cue an adverisement in a local newspaper, which read: "Retired couple wanted to look after large country home while...

Those interested in the audio lectures for the Desiring God National Conference ("Above All Earthly Pow'rs," featuring David Wells, John Piper, Don Carson, Voddie Baucham, Mark Driscoll, and Tim Keller), can find the audio files collected here . BTW, here was a favorite moment, during the second...

The June 2006 issue of ByFaith (the official magazine of the PCA) features a helpful article by Stephen McGarvey on "Technology and the Church." McGarvey writes: "The head of consumer electronics giant Philips once told the magazine The Economist that 'consumers want to be omnipresent, omniscient,...

Oxford University Press have just released the paperback edition of Augustine's Commentary on Galatians in a fresh translation and lengthy ( very lengthy!) introduction by University of Scranton professor, Eric Plumer (hardback edition appeared in 2003). What caught my eye (amidst some tantalizing...

Boy she's good. Here's her take on Bob Woodward's State of Denial .

Having been nurtured in the warmth of the doctrines of grace for my entire Christian life, I am often dismayed at charges that are leveled against Calvinism, especially those that would depict the Reformed faith as legalistic and harsh. Unfortunately, the more I get around the more I understand...

Recently I have been reading Jeffery Sheler's Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America . Sheler is Contributing Editor for Religion with U.S. News and World Report . While he would not identify himself as an evangelical, Sheler grew up in an evangelical church of sorts and is sympathetic to...

Justin Taylor commented a while back that evangelicalism is no longer capable of parody, it has become so much a caricature of itself. In the spirit of that comment, I give you "Your Best Life Now--the Game," inspired by Joel Osteen's best-selling book. The box cover features the smiling visage of...

In their 50th anniversary edition Christianity Today published their take on the top 50 books in evangelicalism's last 50 years--those " landmark titles that changed the way we think, talk, witness, worship, and live." Anyone planning to add their #1 book to your Christmas wish list?

Bob Brady -- who serves as Executive Vice President for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals -- tells me that the Reformation Society in Alaska recently had a very encouraging first meeting. One of the visitors was a high school student who has been planning to become a pilot and hoping to...