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Further to my blog entry below, Martin Downes has informed me that Charles Hodge's letter (in 1869) to Pius IX declining an invitation to attend the Vatican Council is now on-line here . To cite Hodge, "we are not heretics..."

Further to the blog entries by Carl and Paul, I note with some fascination the Canterbury trail is leading, well, to Rome. See here . It's curious: denials of doctrine seem to pass without too much difficulty, but a mere hint of women bring out the warrior spirit. Not that I'm saying the issue of...

To follow up on my previous post I found an excellent interview with Ray Galea on Catholicism here .

This academic year we've started a book of the month at our church. Each month we buy a load of copies, sell them off cheap, then meet up for breakfast on a Saturday to discuss. If truth be told the breakfasts have been a bit of a damp squib with mainly just the elders pitching up but people are...

So runs today's headline in the London Times following a statement by an evangelical bishop in the Church of England. Bishop Wallace Benn, the Bishop of Lewes, told the Reform conference of conservative Anglicans: "I'm about to use an analogy and I use it quite deliberately and carefully. And it...

Geoff Thomas is the Don Corleone of Welsh ministers. He's been the minister of Alfred Place Baptist Church for over 40 years (still no festschrift!!). He's a legend in his own lifetime and has written the below postscript for a book by another Welsh minister Gwynn Williams. The book 'The Glory of...

Well, first I must apologize for dereliction of duty. Not only have I failed to be a good conversation partner, but I failed to wish Dr. Thomas well on his journey to the land where the ideas of Dr. Trueman's hero sunk their roots deeply. And since I've taken so long to respond, here is the link to...

We have a phenomenon in the UK in church evangelism which I think has only happened in the last number of years. It's grown out of fine attempts to reach out to non Christians. We are bombarded as I'm sure you are in the US mainly by para church organisations telling us how irrelevant and boring...

On the eve of another Reformation Sunday we find ourselves still fighting for that principle which Calvin called the "main hinge on which religion turns" and which Luther called the mark of a standing or falling church, namely the doctrine of justification by faith alone in the imputed...

Fascinating day, partly because in the order of things, I had the day off. Carl Trueman gave a brilliant defense of Creeds and Confessions, so brilliant that it made the "no creed but the Bible" folk sound like the lunatic fringe. Then a tour of the Heidelberg Castle (destroyed during the thirty...