Blogs by Carl Trueman

My friend Eric Redmond has published an excellent blog on Obama and the election.  I have no vote (much to the relief of many Ref21 readers, I am sure -- though, bizarrely, I still pay tax in a nation founded... continue

Reading the excellent article on psalm singing below, I wanted to add just two more resources.  The Free Church of Scotland has an excellent edition of the Psalter, combing both the 1650 and the new Sing Psalms which should be... continue

`The bell and the can and the bodies on the floor.'  So goes a line from Mark Knopfler's `Ode to Sonny Liston.'  Well, two heavyweight bruisers of more recent vintage are engaged in a slugfest  over at First Things: N... continue

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

`Any evening, any day, any time you're Lambeth way, you'll find 'em all doin' the Lambeth walk!'  So goes the old song my granny taught me; but not any more, apparently.  According to The Daily Torygraph, some bishops will be... continue

Sorry to disappoint all my 'friends' out there.  This is not my demise but that of one of the greatest church historians Britain ever produced, a man whose erudite writings opened up the world of the early church for many... continue

Del's asked about summer reading.  Here's mine:Theology: Johannes Vanderkemp, The Heidelberg Catechism; David F Wells, The Courage to be Protestant.Two books on my passions: Jeremy Schaap, Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics.  After Emil Zatopek, Owens... continue

You'll find an interesting response from Christopher Hitchens to Pat Buchanan's latest book (on how World War 2 was `unnecessary' here.  I include it here because of the influence Buchanan has over many members of the Christian Right.  For those... continue

A friend brought a fascinating article on the internet to my attention.  You can find it here.It's worth reading for a number of reasons, not least the image of a virtually blind Nietzsche banging away at an early typewriter and... continue