Blogs by Carl Trueman

Michael McLenahan, Edwards afficionado and minister of the gosepl, brought this link to my attention:http://jonathanedwardscenter.blogspot.com/2007/07/billy-graham-preaches-sinners-in-hands.html... continue

I had today had a new accusation added to the several that have been made against me over the years: lycanthropy. Indeed.  I found myself in the car park of a local Barnes and Noble being berated by a certain gentleman... continue

There, bet Del Boy didn't know I can even quote from memory -- from memory, boyo!! --the relevant German section of the passage in The Valkyrie to which he refers. Eat humble pie, you culturally elitist Welshman and grovel in abject humiliation... continue

Given the fact that the Trinitarian identity of the Christian God is the identity of the Christian God, how do the other bloggers on Ref21 (who are all ministers) ensure that the action of worship in their churches on a... continue

Rev Bryan Follis of Belfast kindly sent me a copy of his new book, Truth with Love: The Apologetics of Francis Schaeffer (Crossway). I was very moved (convicted?) by the conclusion of the book:... continue

Just finishing Bob Letham's brilliant and accessible Through Western Eyes: Eastern Orthodoxy -- a Reformed Perspective (Christian Focus).  Typical of Bob's style -- awesome learning, accessible writing, and a fine critical exposition of the history and theology of Orthodoxy which... continue

Lunchtime conversations with minister friends in London indicates that the storm about Steve Chalke and penal substitution rumbles on in the UK. There are dark rumours of a certain well-known Christian book chain boycotting a popular presentation of the doctrine;... continue

Back in the UK I hear rumours that a certain well-known Welsh Baptist minister who read a piece I wrote in Themelios on J I Packer and the Anglo-Welsh evangelical crisis of 1966, has been heard to lament loudly at... continue

Today I picked up a copy of a new book by my old pal, Neil MacDonald, with the fascinating title Metaphysics and the God of Israel  (Baker).  Neil approaches theology from a broadly Barthian perspective, though this book engages with... continue

I found this link on Dave Strain's website to another old pal, David `Robbo' Robertson, on YouTube.  The meek shall inherit the earth; but Dundee ministers will sell their books on YouTube.  Frightening enough to have Dave R's blog out... continue