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It certainly is remarkable to witness such core evangelical institutions as InterVarsity and Urbana now showing openness and (is it possible?) even turning to Roman Catholicism. But I think that with hindsight, we can see at least some of the forces at work. One of these forces is the relationship...

I think the attraction of Rome is in large part generated by the fact that one needs a reason not to be Catholic, and that the classic Protestant reasons for not being so have largely vanished -- three of the key issues for Luther in the Reformation (as for others) were perspicuity of scripture,...

I wonder too if the drift to Rome isn't caused by the dramatic loss of a sense of humour in Protestantism. Frankly, Catholic writers seem to have more fun most of the time; and humour is a great way of coping with the slings and arrows of life. I am struck by the comment of Eric Gritsch on Luther:

Over the last few days I have been devouring Michael Ward's remarkable new interpretation of The Narnia Chronicles by C. S. Lewis. The book is called Planet Narnia , and it was published this month by Oxford University Press. Dr. Ward and I were students together at Oxford, where we spent happy...

Our father/son book group (The James Montgomery Boice Literary Society) just finished reading Out of the Black Shadows . The book tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Lungu, who was abandoned by his parents at a young age, joined a violent street gang in his native Rhodesia, was converted to...

Shortly after posting on Stephen Lungu, I received a sobering update on his work right now in Kenya. Where the following information says "AE" it is referring to African Enterprise, an evangelical ministry of word and deed that was founded by Michael Cassidy and is now directed by Stephen Lungu. It...

I see C J Mahaney is blogging. He has some good thoughts on the `Superbowl' -- you know, that ridiculous event where all those overweight people stand around doing nothing for four hours and looking silly in spandex (hasn't anyone ever told them it takes a certain physique to get away with wearing...

The Welsh have scored another famous victory over the English in the Six Nations Rugby Tournament today! Paul Helm is undergoing therapy at the "Recovering from disillusion Clinic" near Oxford. And Trueman, well, who knows what this had done for him. No spandex in sight here!

Having checked myself into rehab late last night, suffering from severe emotional distress, I now feel able to respond to Del Boy's crowing. First, I call on Parliament to declare the next four weeks a period of national mourning. In the Old Testament, when the Chosen People suffer national...

A second edition of Terry Johnson's Reformed Worship has just been printed by Reformed Academic Press. Copies may be obtained directly from First Presbyterian Church, Jackson ( Nicholasr@fpcjackson.org ). No one has written anything better on reformed worship in the last fifty years than Terry...