Blogs by Carl Trueman

We at Ref21 are always concerned to cultivate appropriate humility and so it seems only just that we acknowledge that the legendary Sunday morning comedy review, the Church of Scotland, has once again outclassed us on the satire front without... continue

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.... continue

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. ... continue

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... continue

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... continue

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

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... continue

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.... continue

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... continue

Sadly, at my church we cannot offer the kind of culturally transforming ministry that is available elsewhere (as an aside, it is not the ink of the gentleman on the right which worries me; it is his earlobes.  What on... continue