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From one of Makoto Fujimura's "Refractions" essays, writing in response to the Amish school girl who tried to offer her life for her classmates, with the implications for artists: "Here, in a miracle nobody noticed, is a bugle call also directed towards us artists. It begins in a belief that our...

I am reading a book on preaching to `postmoderns’ for review. There is much about it that I’m enjoying, but I find myself once again frustrated by the evangelical generalizations about postmodernism so-called.

This book will be lost on some Ref21 correpondents, but I've just been given a copy of Eric W Gritsch's book, The Wit of Martin Luther (Fortress), a superb study of the humour of the great Reformer.

John Tweeddale, a PhD student at Edinburgh working on John Owen's commentary on Hebrews, is doing the church a great service in helping us to understand Richard Muller's magisterial work, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics. (Tweeddale blogs at The Conventicle blog (dedicated to Puritan studies)...

Bruce Metzger, George L. Collord Professor Emeritus of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, died on Tuesday.

It is good to see John Tweeddale introducing the work of Richard Muller -- a world-class scholar who has done much to rehabilitate a healthy understanding of Reformed theology after Calvin. I read Muller's works on post-Reformation Reformed dogmatics early in my doctoral studies and they were...

From Makoto Fujimura's "Refractions" essay on a New York exhibit of letters from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here Fujimura is reflecting on the declaration of Jesus that wars will happen: "In Jesus' realism of 'these things must happen,' he was also reminding us that our sacrifice, either for...

In personal response to Derek's question: by celebrating their wives with tangible expressions of matrimonial affection. But I hope it's not a day too late to sound a cautionary note arising from a healthy Calvinist doctrine of total depravity: "Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a...

Just in from the metropolis of Jackson, Mississippi. FBI agents everywhere in SUVs, talking into the their shirt-cuffs. Weird that, isn't it? Do they think we don't know who they are? Heard one of them saying something about "Plonker Rodney..." It's the advance security force for Trueman's visit to...

Lisa (full disclosure: a woman to whom I have been married for 19 years) received the following email this week from a distant friend: "Tell your husband that he is on my iPOD between the Doobie Brothers and Duran Duran (he's in the Ds -- Dr. Philip Ryken)." One can only hope that Professor Trueman...