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If scoring is the criterion, then basketball is semi-Pelagian, at best. For a truly Pelagian sport, one would have to consider the quintessentially English sport of cricket, which is much higher scoring than basketball, and where even the bowlers can manage to score the occasional run or two. If...

This is the second installment in a series of occasional selections from Dave Shiflett's Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity . To prove his thesis, Mr. Shiflett must first prove that Americans are, in fact, fleeing liberal churches, and also explain why...

Stunning news in an artilce in January's Reformed Man Today (RMT) magazine, pasted below:

By popular demand I append more wisdom from every TR’s favourite spiritual mentor, Nicholas `Don’t call me Nicky!’ Mauss, the big pastor of that even bigger church in Montana. Such is the depth of his wisdom that, in a recent reader’s poll in Reformed Man Today his writings came second only to the...

Matthew Bryant (Director of Church Relations) and our friend Niel Nielson (President) of Covenant College have just announced that the Rev. Aaron Messner has accepted its offer to become College Chaplain. Aaron will officially join Covenant on June 1, 2007. Aaron goes to Covenant from Tenth...

I hate to break up the hilarity in which my good friends Messrs Trotter and Plectrum-Smith seem to be indulging, but I just spent a few moments looking at the webpage of a leading Emergent figure.

Follwing up on yesterday's blog and one one I posted a week or so ago, I would want to make the case that the problem with so many postmodern approaches to the world is that they fail to grasp the tragic nature of the human situation. By dissolving the tragedies of life through moral and...

Belatedly, I write to reflect further on Carl Trueman's Counterpoint ("Close, but No Cigar"). There Carl writes about his recent visit to a synagogue and the rabbi's thoughtful homily on Genesis 22, which included everything except the gospel. As I read Carl's article -- and as I write this post...

Many thanks to Ligon for reporting Aaron Messner's call to Covenant College. Aaron has exercised a faithful and dynamic ministry at Tenth Church, and we expect him to make a large difference on Covenant's campus. His weekly ministry of the Word will cherish the life of the mind and challenge the...

Some more from Forsyth. Theologians who have the gift of words that set minds on fire should be read: