Month December 2007

For those who use, or want to use, the M’Cheyne Bible reading plan, here’s a helpful site with various formats to print, view, or receive online.

The latest 9Marks newsletter–is it still a “newsletter” when it’s 46 pages–is now available online. You can read it as a PDF or on their webpage.

Well, it turns out that the much-ballyhooed Golden Compass is a crashing bore. I finally got around to seeing it last night. There were three other people in the theater. Several things struck me. 1. Yes, the movie’s production quality…

Our good friend, Stafford Carson — formerly Academic Dean at Westminster Theological Seminary and now minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Portadown, Northern Ireland — has made the headlines over Christmas by refusing to allow a female minister to…

Recently, a fellow historian at another Christian institution commented to me about the growing number of Presbyterian prophets who make their reputations on the back of bashing evangelicalism, while at the same time being dependent upon the publishing houses and…

Recently, a fellow historian at another Christian institution commented to me about the growing number of Presbyterian prophets who make their reputations on the back of bashing evangelicalism, while at the same time being dependent upon the publishing houses and…

I was delighted by our church’s recent decision to increase our budget by something like 23% for coming fiscal year.  Now, there is some context for this.  The 2007 budget involved a scaling back, as the church began the year…