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A nice piece in today's Philadelphia Inquirer laments that the February birthday of Richard Allen -- once a major event in our city's black community -- receives so little notice. Born a slave, Richard Allen was a leading voice for racial equality in early American life. He was also the founding...

An excellent new volume is that by Robert C Kolb and Charles P Arand, The Genius of Luther's Theology (Baker Academic). Not so much a study of Luther's thought as an interaction with him on the issues of righteousness and the word preached. It's a robust, refreshing, stimulating, and challenging...

I had the pleasure today of hearing three lectures by Walter Kaiser Jnr. I was particularly struck by a statement he made tonight: `To ignore any part of the Word of God today is to create a seedbed for heresy in the next generation -- or to generate the need for a parachurch ministry.' A clarion...

James Grant passed along a link to a site that looks very helpful: The Westminster Shorter Catechism Project . It includes the catechism, along with links to works and commentary by John Flavel, Thomas Watson, Thomas Boston, James Fisher, John Whitecross, and others.

A reader has brought this link to my attention. Reminds me of all those old copies of Ye Banir of Trouthe that I used to read. Ahem. http://iowahawk.typepad.com /iowahawk/2008/02/heere -bigynneth.html

Interesting response to Rowan Williams from N T Wright. http://covenant-communion.com/?p=569#more-569

C.J. Mahaney recommends D. A. Carson's new memoir about his dad.

My friend, Dr. David Reimer of New College has just written to tell me of the passing of one of the great evangelical Patristic and Reformation scholars of our time, David F. Wright . David was for many years Senior Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History at New College, University of Edinburgh, then...

Only yesterday in a class on the Trinity, I happened to mention Professor Wright's fascinating article on the Great Commission (in the latest edition of the Scottish Journal of Evangelical Theology), not knowing at the time that he had died. He was my PhD examiner. It had been rumored for a few...

From a booklet on Reading The Bible and Praying in Public by Stuart Olyott (just published by the Banner of Truth): "We believe that the Bible is for all: This being so it needs to be read as a message for all who are present. This message is even for those who have not brought a Bible with them...