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I have been asked several times this week, "Do you celebrate Thanksgiving?" As a Brit living in America, it's not quite on the same level as, "Do you celebrate the 4th of July in Britain?" (Yes, I really have been asked that question more than once!). But Thanksgiving: what's there not to like...

With the news that the Free Church have adopted a more open position on worship the usual discussions are beginning to be had. 'Why don't you Presbyterians just get together.' It's true that the Free Church's decision does open up a great possibility for a UK Presbyterian Church but what stops...

Been following the Wright/Schreiner/Thielman exchange over justification at ETS last week in Atlanta ? Among the many good points from Tom Schreiner's criticism is the challenge to Wright's insistence on making justification an ecclesiological issue and not a soteriological one, to which Wright...

Here' s some good material to listen to from the UK The Fulwood conference took place in Sheffield last week Garry Williams spoke on the Love of God whilst Ben Cooper was on the Creator God. Stuart Olyott gave a fine lecture on preaching at the John Owen Centre back in September Plus you can see 3...

George Barna (he of "there's no future for the local church" fame) has just released his latest survey results pertaining to the much ballyhooed Reformed Awakening, and he calms the faithful by assuring them that there is not in fact a new Calvinist under every rock. You can read more about it here...

Back two weekends I had the wonderful privilege of spending some time with the good folks at Cornerstone Church in Medford , Oregon . I was little nervous because Derek Thomas is a frequent speaker there and they really like him and he has an accent. He's also a great speaker, but the accent, too?...

Westminster Theological Seminary's Full Confidence Conference tour ends its fall portion this weekend (Nov 19-21) at Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville, SC (pastored by Alliance Council Member and WTS alumnus, Rick Phillips). Speakers for the event include Richard Gaffin, Scott Oliphint, John...

In recent years, the commitment of the Free Church of Scotland to exclusive, unaccompanied psalm-singing in "formal" worship services has wavered. The issue, understandably, has divided an already fractured church. The church has taken the unusual step of calling a plenary assembly to discuss the...

I suspect the organisers of Lausanne would have no such problems with women bishops! The conspiracy of silence on Ruth Padilla's exposition on Ephesians 2 at Lausanne is deafening. As far as I can see Eph 2 is not hard to apply. In fact, I would say it is a model on how the epistles of Paul work...

The most postmodern of sins has to be hypocrisy - "being inauthentic," if we want to use quasi-Satre categories. We are quick to recognize it in others and, like most sins, slow - painfully slow - to recognise (HT: Carl on the spelling) it in ourselves. The opening chapter of Republocrat addresses...