February 2007 Archives

John Tweeddale, a PhD student at Edinburgh working on John Owen's commentary on Hebrews, is doing the church a great service in helping us to understand Richard Muller's magisterial work, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics. (Tweeddale blogs at The Conventicle blog (dedicated... continue

This book will be lost on some Ref21 correpondents, but I've just been given a copy of Eric W Gritsch's book, The Wit of Martin Luther (Fortress), a superb study of the humour of the great Reformer.... continue

I am reading a book on preaching to `postmoderns’ for review. There is much about it that I’m enjoying, but I find myself once again frustrated by the evangelical generalizations about postmodernism so-called.... continue

From one of Makoto Fujimura's "Refractions" essays, writing in response to the Amish school girl who tried to offer her life for her classmates, with the implications for artists:"Here, in a miracle nobody noticed, is a bugle call also directed... continue

(Editor’s note: due to complaints we have received, we are introducing a new certification scheme for our blogs, ranging from `G’ for `Godly’ and thus suitable for all to `M’ for those blogs which contain material offensive to the spiritually... continue

One of our readers, Peter Whyte, sent in this link to some P T Forsyth material on the web (and what looks like an interesting theology site all round).Here is the link:  http://ptforsythfiles.blogspot.com/ ... continue

If one sign of a great theologian is his ability to sieze hold of the imagination of his readers witha single line, to disturb them, to fascinate them, to make them think, then Forsyth ranks near the top.  Here's a few... continue

More material from Makoto Fujimura's essay "Operation Homecoming: Epistles of Injury."As he read letters from soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, Fujimura was reminded of a bloody event on American soil, and the sacrifice that one person was willing to make. ... continue

A close friend and ministry colleague reported to me today that the well-known Beijingchurch activist Hua Huiqi and his 76-year-old mother were attacked and woundedby the police in the morning of January 26, 2007:... continue

This is the quickest way to say thank you to the numerous readers of the Ref21 blog who have graciously taken the time to send in condolences and assurances of prayer regarding the death of Alan Groves, a dear friend and... continue