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Just to add my voice to the chorus of sorrow over the passing of David Wright. He was not only a fearsome scholar; he was also incredibly generous with the time he willingly gave to young academics and very proactive in sending work and professional opportunities their way. Of course, I will always...

The gospel of Christ does not move by popular waves. It has no self-propagating power. It moves as the men who have charge of it move. The preacher must impersonate the gospel. Its divine, most distinctive features must be embodied in him. The constraining power of love must be in the preacher as a...

The Scotsman (an Edinburgh-based, national, daily Scottish newspaper) has now published an obituary of Professor David F. Wright, written by his longtime colleague, Duncan Forrester. You can read it here , or following. I have received emails from a number of David's former students, or those who...

From the Westminster Bookstore blog: "Thanks to Baker Publishing, we now offer you the chance to peruse the detailed Table of Contents and thorough Editor’s Introduction from the much-anticipated fourth and final volume of the complete English translation of Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics...

Seems it's not only militant homeschoolers, metrotextuals, and the Keystone Kops who have it in for me. Now the fearsome Welsh crime syndicate, the Tafia, have sent out a sinister public warning -- though I do like the fact that they have anglicised the name of the Don. I think Cwrluonu is the real...

Reformed Academic Press have just published Richard B. Gaffin's God's Word in Servant Form: Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck on the Doctrine of Scripture . It is available from Westminster Bookstore as well as from Reformed Academic Press ( nicholasr@fpcjackson.org ). The latter are telling me...

This Wednesday, amid fear of being `whacked' by the Taffia, and with rumours that the Keystone Kops were about to name me as a `person of interest' in their undercover investigation into the recent sinister disappearance of a high-profile member of the Reformed community, I went into hiding.

As of yesterday, David Skeel and Bill Stuntz have begun writing a new blog called "Less than the Least." Law professors at UPenn and Harvard, respectively, David and Bill are close friends who share a faith commitment as well as a career. Here is how they introduce their blog: We are both law...

The latest 9Marks journal is online. (Also available in PDF ). Here's the table of contents: CHRISTIAN COOPERATION Fellow Workers for the Truth By Andy Johnson Together for What? By Mark Dever A Senior Saint on Unity By Iain Murray Theological Triage By R. Albert Mohler CHRISTIAN SEPARATION When,...

I just returned from the opening session of the 2008 Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology in Sacramento, the theme of which is Precious Blood: The Atoning Work of Christ. It was a tremendous evening, with a hungry crowd at Immanuel Baptist Church in downtown Sacramento. Joel Beeke presented...