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It's official. The American Psychological Association has found that the sexualisation of girls and young women is harmful. Yes indeedy -- now we know that the portrayal of women as sex objects is not a good thing. Incredible, I know, but there you have it. Check the story at http://comment...

In doing a little research on William Wilberforce this week (in anticipation of this week's release of the film Amazing Grace , which marks the 200th anniversary of the slave trade in the British Empire), I stumbled across a quotation that confirms the truth of Carl's recent post on humility...

Baker Academic has now posted online a PDF excerpt of Kelly Kapic's new book, Communion with God: The Divine and Human in the Theology of John Owen . The PDF contains J. I. Packer's foreword, the table of contents, and the first chapter. As Packer says, "This is a landmark book in modern Puritan...

Mississippi was great fun. Getting to meet `Nate-Dog' and `The Gnome' and the various other criminal Welsh-types who gather around Ref21 was a pleasure. And staying at a hotel where the guy behind the desk looked like Rod Steiger in `In the Heat of the Night' and who spoke in a strange language of...

IVP-UK is set to publish a landmark work: Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution . (Clicking on the link will take you to a website for the book. You can also order it from Amazon.com/uk --it is due out in mid-March.) The authors of the book are Mike Ovey,...

No doubt the blogosphere will be agog today over James Cameron's announcement (he of Titanic fame) that he has found the tomb of Jesus (and his son, of all people). The first advance notice I saw of today's press conference was on Tim McGirk's Time/CNN blog from the Middle East this past weekend...

I am very pleased to announce that Dan Doriani's commentary on James has just been released -- a very handsome volume. In the interests of full disclosure, I should mention that it is in the Reformed Expository Commentary series that Rick Phillips and I are editing.

This weekend we launch the 2007 Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology with our meeting in Emmanuel Baptist Church in Sacramento, California. This year's theme is: "The Word: Above All Earthly Powers." This is the PCRT's first visit to Sacramento, and we are excited by the registration and by...

I just returned from this year's trip to Uganda to preach at the African Bible College . As before, it was a truly inspiring time of ministry and fellowship. I thought that I would chronicle the trip in a number of posts. Our flight from Miami to Heathrow to Entebbe gave us a twelve hour layover in...

What can we learn from PCE? Difficult to comment on something which isn't clearly defined but here's a few things: