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Ruth Bell Graham, beloved late wife of Billy Graham, died today. The BGEA website has set up a memorial. memorial. Praise God for a faithful, dignified life, well lived. Ted Olsen has lots of links and quotes.

Our good friend, Martin Downes (he's Welsh, you understand!) has a fascinating interview with Joel Beeke (President of the Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids) here . If you search the site, you'll also find similar interviews with ligon Duncan and yours truly!

My attention has been drawn to a DVD of Bach's Mass in B Minor sponsored by Soli Deo Gloria ( www.SDGmusic.org ). The DVD is produced by Virgin Classics and is a performance of Bach's Mass by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris conducted by John Nelson. It is part of a forthcoming trilogy which will...

I believe I may have seen Carl Trueman at the PCA General Assembly (just arrived back at 3am this morning -- a story for a different time, in which AirTran figures prominently and unhelpfully). However, I'm not sure whether I saw him or not -- styles are so casual at GA that someone like Carl tends...

Following the Westminster Assembly conference I spoke to someone who attended Carl Trueman's lecture, having never heard him before. He told us that it was "the best thing I've ever heard." He backed down a little bit after we laughed at him, out loud, but still, maybe it was worth hearing after...

For those who haven't seen it, there is a moving account of the funeral for three men who were martyred in Turkey on April 18 (for further context, see the May 1 post called "Turkey Martyrs." Here is the report:

Trueman wasn't actually at the assembly; I was standing in for him. And I too had a horrific return journey -- plane cancelled at Charlotte at 11.15 pm, followed by a 600 mile through-the-night car journey with a former Clinton advisor in a rental car whom I had never me before but shared a similar...

From an email by Wayne Grudem (posted with permission): I just learned this morning that Harold O. J. ("Joe") Brown, professor of theology at Reformed Theological Seminary - Charlotte, NC, and a long-time friend, is gravely ill. His cancer from several years ago has returned and a tumor is...

Back in the UK I hear rumours that a certain well-known Welsh Baptist minister who read a piece I wrote in Themelios on J I Packer and the Anglo-Welsh evangelical crisis of 1966, has been heard to lament loudly at a recent conference (with more than a little Celtic irony), `What a disaster!...

Lunchtime conversations with minister friends in London indicates that the storm about Steve Chalke and penal substitution rumbles on in the UK. There are dark rumours of a certain well-known Christian book chain boycotting a popular presentation of the doctrine; there are whispers of other...