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Westminster Seminary’s K. Scott Oliphint has just published a book with the very promising title Reasons for Faith: Philosophy in the Service of Theology.  Bill Edgar writes: “This is a wonderful book. If given the attention it deserves,Reasons for Faith…

My friend and colleague Bob Brady just pointed me to this post by our mutual friend Tom Ascol. It points back to this good article at ref21 by our intrepid editor. Edifying stuff. Read and learn and be encouraged.

I’ve been pondering again what is always a somewhat thorny issue: was Jesus able to sin or was he not able to sin? It arose again yesterday in a Patristics class in which we were examining the early work of…

Last week a New Jersey fisherman found a plastic bag full of letters in the surf off Atlantic City.  There were about 300 letters in the bag — some dating back to the early 1970’s — all addressed to the…

I think I’m going to sue Jeremy for defamation in his latest article on Ref21 where I think I see myself pilloried.  I may have a 32 inch waist, and he flatters me by saying I’m even an average preacher,…

In the wake of the Ted Haggard scandal, Crossway Books has granted permission for us to post an early version of C. J. Mahaney’s message to pastors, forthcoming as a chapter in the T4G book, Preaching the Cross, ed. Mark…

While driving to and from a presbytery meeting tonight, I listened to Scot McKnight’s address on the Emerging Church Movement from Westminster Theological Seminary’s Emerging Church Forum.  I highly recommend the address as a friendly introduction to the topic.  Here…

It seems to me that the blogosphere reaction to the Ted Haggard scandal is breaking two ways.  On one side are those who utterly denounce the man and see in him a glaring example of everything wrong in popular evangelicalism…