February 2007 Archives

IVP-UK is set to publish a landmark work: Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution. (Clicking on the link will take you to a website for the book. You can also order it from Amazon.com/uk--it is due... continue

Mississippi was great fun.  Getting to meet `Nate-Dog' and `The Gnome' and the various other criminal Welsh-types who gather around Ref21 was a pleasure.  And staying at a hotel where the guy behind the desk looked like Rod Steiger in `In... continue

Baker Academic has now posted online a PDF excerpt of Kelly Kapic's new book, Communion with God: The Divine and Human in the Theology of John Owen. The PDF contains J. I. Packer's foreword, the table of contents, and the... continue

In doing a little research on William Wilberforce this week (in anticipation of this week's release of the film Amazing Grace, which marks the 200th anniversary of the slave trade in the British Empire), I stumbled across a quotation that... continue

It's official.  The American Psychological Association has found that the sexualisation of girls and young women is harmful.  Yes indeedy -- now we know that the portrayal of women as sex objects is not a good thing.  Incredible, I know,... continue

Well, I too have enjoyed Mississippi. Most interesting was the comparison of ringtones on my cellphone with that of Del.  I have the climax of The Who's `Won't get fooled again,'  Del has `Ride of the Valkyries.'   Now, who do you... continue

Not quite! Rather, an Englishman in Mississippi.It's been an education having Dr. Trueman in the heart of Mississippi for few days. Despite the obvious deep-seated, Freudian angst that he's not Welsh, he has managed to deconstruct American culture in scintillating... continue

A ref21 reader has written to remind me of another good use for apologetics.  According to Calvin, we need apologetics not so much "to convert the hearts of the ungodly but to stop their obstreperous mouths."  One wonders what Richard Dawkins would... continue

During Sunday evening (!) worship a few weeks ago, I was refreshed to hear again a hymn by Derek Thomas and Paul Jones.  The hymn is entitled "Our Father Bless'd, To Us Bestows."  I believe we may have posted it before,... continue

Visiting RTS Jackson today, it was a thrill to be in the home state of the late great Robert Johnson (look him up on Wikipedia, Del); and to be introduced by Dr Thomas to RTS as a `gangly nerd,' Del continuing... continue