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Last week, after ten or so years of wanting one, I finally bought a Bose Wave Music System . When I got it out of the box and tested it with various CDs, I have to admit that it just felt, well, wrong to play Springsteen or U2 on it. So, for the past week or so (this ought to warm Derek's heart), I...

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Over at Christianity Today, Collin Hansen has compiled his list of the " Top Ten Theological Stories of 2008 ." It includes the phenomenal success of the poorly written and theologically confused, The Shack , The Year of the Study Bible, and the departure of Pete Enns from Westminster Seminary...

Just a reminder, the Calvin blog begins MONDAY. And, while we're on Calvin, the Calvin 500 folks tell me that booking is now open for the Conference section here .

The worst maritime disaster in peacetime in British waters took place on the Isle of Lewis ninety years ago, on 1 January 1919. The yacht Iolaire (Gaelic for 'eagle') was returning some two hundred and fifty Lewismen who were returning from the trenches of the First World War when she went off...

Two British missionaries in Gambia, West Africa, have been imprisoned for a year for sending anti-Islamic e-mail. See the full story here .

Phil is out of the country and asked me to post this: Tenth Presbyterian Church is hosting its 4 th annual Workshop on Biblical Exposition, February 4 to 6, on the theme of Apocalyptic Literature. The workshop is sponsored by the Charles Simeon Trust and supported by the Alliance of Confessing...

I received the following "Christmas meditation" from Dr. Ray Van Neste (Ryan Center for Biblical Studies,; see his blog here ): It seems that many people think you can only celebrate Christmas if all is well. You can see this in the various statements beginning with, "It just does not seem like...

There is so much irony wrapped up in Rick Warren's invitation to invoke God's blessing on the inauguration of Barak Obama that I am astonished that Carl Trueman has not written more about it. The news is that the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender (can they really say this with a straight face?)...

David Meredith (Free Church of Scotland, Smithton/Culloden) sent me the following: The new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has caused some raised eyebrows in educational circles. Several supposedly old-fashioned words have been removed. A report in the Daily Telegraph shows that many of the...