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I've been involved in teaching one of those one-week, all-day courses that allowed me little time except to "monitor" the blog. I noted that some lefty cab driver threatens to vilify the Welsh and a good friend from North Wales is arming himself in preparation, he tells me. And I am stockpiling,...

Carl, can you tell us again where to get all these provocative quotes from P. T. Forsyth? With regard to the last quotation in your most recent post, may I infer that Mr. Forsyth had never been to Wales?

From Dave Shiflett, Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity : "Most people go to church to get something they cannot get elsewhere. This consuming public--people who already believe, or who want their children to believe--go to church to learn about the...

There is still time to register for the Workshop on Biblical Exposition at Tenth Presbyterian Church February 6-8. One of last year's participants wrote: "I want to thank you again for the Workshop on Biblical Exposition. It has changed my preparation and my preaching. My deacons and congregation...

Here is a juicy paragraph from Charles Spurgeon ("The Dying Thief in a New Light") that couldn't find its way into last week's sermon but was too good not to share: "I believe that many Christian people get into a deal of trouble through not being honest in their convictions. For instance, if a man...

From Dave Shiflett, Exodus: Why Americans are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity (New York: Sentinel, 2005): "As the mainline has moved closer to flatlining, churches that have maintained allegiance to traditional Christian belief, comparatively speaking, have experienced...

In the Jan/Feb 2007 issue of Books & Culture, respected home school guru Susan Wise Bauer laments criticism of her recent endorsement of John Stackhouse’s book Finally Feminist . Stackhouse follows the well-trod path of arguing that the Bible’s teaching on gender relations is so complicated and...

Taking some exception to my recent theological slur on his beloved sport of cricket, an English friend has written to correct my athletics and my theology: "I feel moved to defend cricket against the charge of pelagianism recently made on the Ref21 web log. "I do not think such a view can be...

I see that Rick Phillips has already written a full-length response to Susan Wise Bauer's Books & Culture review of Finally Feminist , a new book by John Stackhouse. I have not read the Stackhouse book, but based on the summary in the review, its arguments for egalitarianism are all too...

From Dave Shiflett, Exodus: Why Americans are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity (New York: Sentinel, 2005). Shiflett wonders what accounts for the diverging growth rates of liberal (on the decline) and conservative (on the rise) churches in America. He quotes approvingly from...