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Reformation21 readers should be sure not to miss the April 2 cover story in Time magazine: "Why We Should Teach the Bible in Public School." David Van Biema is much too cautious about the possible dangers, as he sees them, of teaching the Bible as literature, but he is quite right to remind America...

As a loyal Philadelphian, I was more than a little pleased to see the design the U.S. Postal Service unveiled last week for its permanent stamp. The cost of postage will continue to rise, I am sure, but this image will remain on our stamp in perpetuity: our own Liberty Bell. I was intrigued by the...

Having spent a jolly couple of days reading through pages and pages and pages of web-based Holocaust Denial while simultaneously gagging and preparing a chapter for a book on historical method, I confess to being totally depressed by the number of such sites which connect to the `Christian' world...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article1600686.ece History is important; but the current distaste for history doesn't fill one with much confidence that this kind of thing can be reversed.

Paul Helm has posted an excellent little piece on what definitions do and don't do . A few quotes: "Berkhof’s definition is not an attempt to replace the language of the Psalms or of any other language, or to be cleverer than Scripture. His definition does not take us beyond Scripture, making...

I may have mentioned this book before in these columns but there's no harm in repeating my enthusiasm for this volume by Thabiti Anyabwile called The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors (Crossway). It is a sell your shirt and buy volume, and very...

I am also wildly enthusiastic about this volume, hot off the press (Evangelical Press). As the picture says, its a volume by Joel Beeke on John's epistles. Some dude called Derek Thomas blurbs on the front cover (too small to read in the picture, I know): "There are few safer guides to the themes...

I find it hard not to envy the disciples a little. They were there for the first Easter. Therefore, they were the first to hear the good news of the resurrection and the first to see the risen Christ. Don’t you wish that you could see what they saw and rejoice the way that they must have rejoiced?

Yesterday we held our traditional Good Friday worship service at Tenth Presbyterian Church. We meet at noon -- a good time for Center City workers to come over on a lunch break. I was especially blessed by a beautiful tenor solo of Stuart Townend's "How Deep the Father's Love For Us" -- a good text...

Phil Ryken's Good Friday message is now available to read, here .