Reformation21

After a long break, Ref21 has once again turned for wisdom to that category of person that some regard as the third office of the eldership: taxi drivers. So, today we are delighted to be able to be talking to Frank Zappa -- no, not the late, great surreal front man of The Mothers of Invention, but...

Derek asks what we think is the most important issue for the church in 2008. I would answer that for the entirety of the Church -- that is, the worldwide church -- the most important issue is that we see advance in the biblical formation of churches in the developing nations. In so many places --...

Guy Davies interviews David Gibson, who is the co-editor of a book being released this month from IVP-UK: E ngaging with Barth .

Diligent observers of the UK evangelical scene will know that Wycliffe College, Oxford, has been going through something of a turbulent transformation under the leadership of new Principal, Richard Turnbull. . Here's a link to the latest twist involving leading evangelical feminist theologian,...

More on the dark doings at Wycliffe Hall. Call me a cynic, but the key phrase here might well be `energetic management style.' Still, pinning it all on the fundamentalists is much more fun. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3321401.ece

Just been reading an interview with Derek Thomas at the Exiled Preacher blog in which he has something to say about that Trueman guy! And another reference to it, here .

I'm stuck in Orlando. Someone has to be here. I'm teaching for RTS, but "stuck" in the sense that I have to spend the obligatory nights alone in a hotel (which when you're inside, could be almost anywhere in the western world). To amuse myself, I've picked up the latest book by A. J. Jacobs, The...

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Dan Cruver interviews Tim Trumper on adoption.

In a seminar on John Owen's doctrine of justification this morning, one of my students, Brian Borgman, drew attention to the following quotation from Owen's treatment of Justification in Volume 5: "(Justification) is so fallen in our days, that nothing in religion is more maligned, more reproached...