June 2008 Archives

Robert Gagnon, who knows first-hand the loving tolerance and respect for dissident scholarship of certain circles, has chimed in very helpfully on the Heidelberg Catechism issue here.... continue

but I do think the PCUSA dropping of the explicit reference to homosexuality in Heidelberg Catechism 87 does represent a better translation of the original German than the 1967 gloss/addition.  Of course, we can have our suspicions about why the... continue

We had a special service in our church this evening.   The traditions of Scottish Highland evangelical piety in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to the 'Question' meeting. This was a meeting in which the laymen of the... continue

The Presbyterian Layman reports that after first voting to remove "homosexual perversion" from the list of sins found in the Heidelberg Confession, the PC(USA) then approved a $2 million warchest to wage legal combat against the New Wineskins group (a... continue

Summer vacation (as well as a teaching trip to Regent College in Vancouver) begins next week.  As I anticipate laying down many of the burdens of pastoral care, at least for a little while, here is a salutary reminder of... continue

Writing in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, David Wells explains what our church and our culture need: "The renewal of which we stand in need, I believe, is of both the understanding of truth and of our knowledge... continue

The latest edition of the 9Marks journal is on marriage and the church. Note especially the marriage comparison chart with mini-reviews of a number of books.... continue

I have a bad habit: I keep adding books to my growing pile beside my bed. This morning, I finished a book that wasn't on this list: Christian Scharen's Faith as a Way of Life. Originating out of Yale's Center... continue

My wife and I are off to Peru tomorrow on a mission trip for a week and I'm uncertain if I'll be able to blog from the Southern Hemisphere! On my way, I've decided to dip into Colin Duriez's new... continue

One quick addition to my summer reading list:  Garth Rosell's The Surprising Work of God:  Harold John Ockenga, Billy Graham, and the Rebirth of Evangelicalism.  Ockenga was in the first graduating class of Westminster, among the faculty and student exiles... continue