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The Preacher wisely said that "there is nothing new under the sun," and however aghast our pundits may be at the sudden rise of Trumpism, we really have seen it all before. The radicalization and fragmentation of the Republican Party that we are witnessing follows familiar patterns of radical...

Saturday afternoon brought the shock to the country that the legendary United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in his sleep in Texas. My first thought was that the loss of this great jurist, which would be a tragedy under any circumstances, is even more so because of the moment's...

Ezra-Nehemiah and the Casting Off of Foreign Wives and Children: How Should We Preach It? The book of Ezra concludes with one of the sadder themes in redemptive history. After the priest Ezra takes the leadership of the post-exilic Jewish community, hard at work rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem,...

I'm currently editing a book with Michael Haykin on intra-Reformed debates in the Long Eighteenth Century (1688 to 1815). It is a sort of companion to this book , and part of a life-long project of mine where I want to highlight theological debates over the centuries to give readers a better...

Perhaps the biggest issue going into this year's Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) General Assembly will be the racial reconciliation overtures that are starting to come in from the presbyteries. This process was prompted by the personal resolution submitted last year by Drs. Sean Lucas and...

This is the tenth post in a twelve-part series on the current Christological confusion taking root in China's emerging Reformed community (see part 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , and 9 ). Sixth Statement: An Uncreated Body The Belgic Confession insists the eternal Son became fully human and that "...

The International Presbyterian Church not making it on to Mark Jones 'Top 10 denominations of 2015' is a body blow for us all involved however we are hoping to plant 3 churches in the next two years which should get us moving up the charts. For many readers planting 3 churches in the next couple of...

2015 has been a bumper year for the cottage industry that is Martyn Lloyd Jones hagiography. There has been a new, short biography written by his grandson, Christopher Catherwood; a first biography of his wife, Bethan Lloyd Jones, and the film Logic on Fire - The Life and Legacy of Dr Martyn Lloyd...

It is time for those end of the year lists to start coming out. Keeping in the tradition that I started last year , I wanted to share the top ten books that I read this year. Two opening words. First, It is important to say again that these books did not necessarily come out in 2015. Merely, these...

Following Rob Bell: The Edges of Orthodoxy and the Center of the Zeitgeist This past Sunday, Kent Dobson, successor at Rob Bell's famous Mars Hill Bible Church, stepped down as teaching pastor. He opened his announcement/sermon by reading the Scriptural story which gives name to the church, the...