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With the great volume of new books these days, there are few truly significant publishing events. The sixth volume of Hughes Oliphant Old's The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church , released in February, is surely one. This is a colossal endeavor of great...

I'm catching up on recent ref21 conversations, and I couldnt' help but chime in on the subject raised by Phil's comment on Ivy League Expectations and Carl's addition regarding the Reformed church culture as it bears on women. I especially want to pick up on Carl's comment that we must reject the...

I got an email from a young minister yesterday who was updating me on his calling into ministry. We first at the Indianapolis PCRT when he was at college. He would bring a gang from Ball State with specially made t-shirts identifying them as Reformed zealots. I later spoke at his college ministry...

I have been really encouraged by the positive response to the postings about the importance of reading the early church fathers. Two further comments on this.

Still the emails come in on patristics. Look, I'm temporarily a pen-pushing bureaucrat, more interested in balance sheets and wielding power over subordinates like some petty Napoleon on speed than in doing something constructive and theological. But, for those interested in exploring the link...

In light of the deeply offensive emails posted by our fellow blogger, Carl Trueman, over the last week, where he made such outrageous, extreme, heretical and gratuitously poisonous claims as `You know, maybe not all women should feel they have to homeschool' and `Hey, it's kind of helpful on...

Martin Downes interviews our own Derek Thomas. Here and here , so far.

It is my pleasure to announce that the Reverend Dr. Guy Prentiss Waters will join the faculty of Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi on June 1, 2007, as Associate Professor of New Testament. Guy is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A.), Westminster Theological...

For those interested, there is a very thoughtful and perceptive response to my little piece on Francis Beckwith from Catholic philosopher, Dr Michael Liccione, which can be found at http://mliccione.blogspot.com /2007/05/why-beckwith-matters .html

Having spent all Saturday with a Free Church of Scotland minister watching that great opera Quadrophenia Live (won't identify this man of the cloth; suffice it to say that he's the North American FCS minister who doesn't listen to Shania Twain and Michael Jackson), I was delighted to get a note...