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It is a spoof,but one can only wish that this were true.I suspect Andy Stanley would not be pleased.  More of that next week.   The Hammer of Thor has been taken out of the broom cupboard and is being polished....

After more than six decades at our historic, four-storied brownstone in Center City Philadelphia, the Alliance moved to nearby Lancaster, PA. While we miss the beauty of the craftsmanship at our old location, this move is an example of our...

My colleague David Robertson writes well here in advance of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland and our own, the Free Church of Scotland, next week. As usual, he scratches where it itches. It's not often that the...

Connor Quigley, of the RP Church in Scotland, has brought to my attention this website which he has set up as a great resource for recordings of various Psalters sung a cappella.  The one thing it lacks: Gaelic psalm singing. ...

There are a few things that frustrate me about a number of the books that I have read recently. One is those extravagant examples seemingly designed to showcase the brilliance of some penetrating thinker:Barry (not his real name) is a...

And with apologies for having missed it, here's a word from Sollozzo on the same topic which caught Collin Garbarino's eye.  I trust my omission of this from my previous post will not result in me sleeping with the fishes.We...

Two helpful links:Over at First Thoughts Collin Garbarino articulates with great clarity some of the problems with the portentous advice offered by some at the top of the E.I.C.Then, Mark Snoeberger argues that which should be obvious to anyone who...

After reading Carl Trueman's post on "A New Christian Crime," I saw some on-line videos of Elizabeth Smart's response to the escape of the abducted women and was blown away by her courage and grace.  I then read her remarks...

It was suggested that I might wish to draw your attention to an upcoming conference to be held in Louisville in a few weeks time. It's an awesome new conference called Death March 2013, and we will be rocking some...

.... preachers as stand-up comics, cool video link-ups, and those omnipresent beautiful people?They are simply not entertaining enough.  End of story....

The recent comments by kidnap/rape victim Elizabeth Smart on how her religious upbringing in an 'abstinence only' environment made her ordeal that much worse and also factored in to her inability to break free are worthy of pause for thought.A...

I see the CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch is in a spot of trouble.  Seems he has been taking a bit too much advice from cutting-edge church planters and conference organisers....

Bits and Bobs Tim Ward has recently been appointed to teach at Cornhill and has written the excellent  ''Words of Life'', the Gospel Partnership website has 4 audio sessions Tim has given on the Doctrine of Scripture  God and Scripture NowUnderstanding...

Yes, you heard it here first: Stornoway black pudding is now a protected delicacy, right up there with champagne and cornish pasties, apparently. You can read about it in our national newspaper, the Stornoway Gazette, although an unfortunate typo has...

An early draft of my recent review of Thomas Albert Howard's brilliant monograph on European perceptions of American religion contained a paragraph which I simply could not fold in to the whole in an elegant manner.  As a result, I...