Reformation21

At the end of 2006, as I look back on the year, I repent of my previous view of blogging as a trivial medium. Here's what I learned from my various correspondents over the year:

My dear errant brother, What's all this angst about the Welsh, look you? Beneath this desire to poke fun lies a deep insecurity, a sense of inferiority perhaps. I perfectly understand this boyo: all that psychological pressure from always being right. It must be lonely at the top, always unsure of...

More from the agony column of The Sword in the Bowel .

The reaction to my statement that RJR was a Holocaust Denier (and thus either historically incompetent, racist or mentally unhinged) has elicited quite a bit of response, from very polite statements that I have misread him to veritable tirades accusing me of serious historical incompetence and...

Forgot to point out one other obvious matter (implicit in my earlier blog but, on the basis of recent correspondence, I take nothing for granted as being obvious): RJR's point in citing other atrocities in World War Two relates directly to the other side of Holocaust Denial -- the relativisation of...

Some readers of this blog may only check the blog page at Ref21, so it's worth pointing out that a new edition of the e-zine is now online at the main Reformation21.org site. It features a number of articles about Owen, plus much more!

Scott Clark asks (and answers) the question, Why Are (Some) Reformed People Such Jerks?

If any of you guys are up for it, I'd be interested in your take on voting for a Mormon for president. Here's how Jacob Weisburg makes his case in Slate : I wouldn't vote for someone who truly believed in the founding whoppers of Mormonism. The LDS church holds that Joseph Smith, directed by the...

OK, so no one blogged on "Christmas Books" so let me add a few of my own before changing the blog "theme"...

At Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church we end the old year and begin the new oneby celebrating the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Our worship service traditionally closes with the singing of "Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners!" This year I learned that the hymn's author, J. Wilbur Chapman,...