Blogs by Iain D Campbell

Haworth, home of the Bronte sisters, was also home, some seventy years earlier, to one of the great men of the eighteenth century evangelical revival in Britain: William Grimshaw of Haworth. J.C. Ryle regarded him, along with John Wesley and... continue

I've just been reading Collin Hansen's Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist's Journey with the New Calvinists. It's a fascinating exploration of the growing influence of names with which we are familiar: John Piper, Mark Dever, Al Mohler. I don't get... continue

I have just been listening to a new CD recording of Gaelic songs celebrating the work of one of our island's great poets, Murdo Macfarlane. He lent the expressiveness of his native Celtic tongue to his poetry, with the result... continue

Now that I am back from my holiday in Florida it's time to resume blogging. One of the highlights of our trip was to hear R.C. Sproul preaching in his church in Sanford; his exposition of Matthew 6:25-34 was uplifting... continue

I came across this gem while re-reading the biography of Principal John Macleod of the Free Church. Macleod was Professor of Greek in the Free Church College from 1906-13, minister of the Free North Church, Inverness, 1913-1929, and Professor of... 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

Thanks to all who have volunteered to review my list of books. Of the books I posted earlier today, only the following are left: Sharon Heaney CONTEXTUAL THEOLOGY FOR LATIN AMERICA: LIBERATION THEMES IN EVANGELICAL PERSPECTIVE (Paternoster) Christopher R. Seitz... continue

As some of you know I am currently the Review Editor for the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology, published jointly by Rutherford House and the Scottish Evangelical Theological Society. With the permission of the Ref21 editor-in-chief, I am going to... continue

My Summer reading has started with John R. Muether's new biography of Cornelius Van Til, which I am enjoying. My theological reading list for the next few weeks includes Michael Haykin and Kenneth Stewart's The Emergence of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical... continue

For delightful reading, John Kennedy's The Days of the Fathers in Ross-shire is unbeatable. For a study of the ministers and men of Ross-shire in Scotland in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, it is indispensable.In the following passage Kennedy... continue