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I've been doing some work in Romans and between Christopher Ash's 2 volume 'Teaching Romans' and James Philip's 'The Power of God' not much else is needed. James Philip's book is out of print and has been for over 20 years. It seems to me it is criminally negligent of publishers to let books like...

Where was Rob Bell last Monday at 1.30pm? Somebody crashed into my car and drove off while I was shopping on the Greenford Avenue Co-Op. Anyway in our house-group, during the prayer time, we have banned the 'I'm tired' prayer request. I can't remember the last time I met someone who isn't tired. It...

Well, Mrs Trotter and myself have been most astonished at the, umm, astonishment that Rob Bell has apparently come out as a universalist. Indeed, the fact that Zondervan has now apparently broken ties with the chap shows what a stunning change of direction this is for the young theologian. Who...

Just yesterday someone told me of a sincere and well-meaning Christian family who forbid their children from reading Harry Potter books and who buy them Rob Bell's Nooma Videos to watch instead. What is particularly galling about that is that Harry Potter is relatively harmless to the discerning...

Todd Pruitt has spotted ref21's favourite cutting-edge pastor setting the world to rights again. Yes, `the thinking man's Paul Levy' has decided that he hates haters -- which leaves him with something of an aesthetic/moral paradox, I guess. Great suit, shirt and teeth, though.

I probably should begin this post by establishing my "traditional worship" bona fides. My tastes in worship are decidedly traditional--my wife and I attend a church with a pipe organ where the organ is used . . . every Sunday . . . and a classic Presbyterian order of worship is followed, complete...

While the internet has rocked with information about a prominent minister who has denied the reality of hell, being more historically minded, I couldn't help but think about David Swing. Most people don't know who David Swing was--but in the 1870s and 1880s, David Swing was the most popular...

In light of Prof. von Hoffman's stunning (but all too familiar) revisionist historiography, I thought it might be helpful to highlight an argument for the inerrancy of Scripture that I had not heard until Warfield--who else?--brought it to my attention: "[Jesus'] testimony is that whatever stands...

Professor Tales von Hoffman, of the University of Copelia-Bratwurst, shocked the historical world last night by claiming that Hitler never existed. `A careful study of 20th century documents indicates that Hitler never actually existed but was simply a literary-theological type of the actor,...

My wife likes Isobel Kuhn and so, after 10 years of marriage, I've just read 'By Searching', the first volume of her autobiography. It tells the story from her going to college to her leaving for China. I feared it would be a kind of Christianised 'Anne of Green Gables'. If I'm honest it's a bit...