Blogs by Carl Trueman

There's a fascinating article in The London Review of Books by Jonathan Raban on Neil Entwistle, the Englishman who murdered his American wife and child a year or two ago. The article is worth reading for a number of reasons. ... continue

For any moshers out there who might be interested: Ben Witherington, evangelical NT scholar, has been posting a series of `classic rock' lists on his blog, showing that he is not simply one of the most readable and lucid NT... continue

One of my students brought to my attention the fact that ChristianAudio.com are offering Augustine's Confessions as their free download of the month for August.  You'll find the link here.As a former student once said in chapel, `Dr Trueman told... continue

I'm just finishing Garth M. Rosell's very readable book, The Surprising Work of God: Harold John Ockenga and the Rebirth of Evangelicalism (Baker).   It's essentially a biography of Ockenga, with particular focus on his role in the wider post-war... continue

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