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It would be in poor taste to point out to Carl, especially on his birthday, that the headlines on the BBC news site this afternoon reads, "Resurgent Wales see off England" alluding to the Welsh Rugby Union victory (27-18). One reader (Toby Kurth) sent us a message asking, "Can we expect a post from...

Yes, I acknowledge the defeat. A source of national shame, and I humbly call on Tony Blair to make Monday a national day of prayer and humiliation. I console myself only with the thought that, the occasional loss to Wales notwithstanding, it is still better, on balance, to be born English. On that...

From Charles Spurgeon's sermon "Christ the Cure for Troubled Hearts": "I hear another one say, 'But suppose I have committed the unpardonable sin;' to which I answer, 'But suppose you have not;' and there is just as much reason for supposing one way as supposing the other. And again I say, suppose...

In the wake of the mass mobilization of Carl Trueman’s loyal Welsh Ref 21 fan base after the disastrous defeat of the English rugby at the hands of Wales at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday, the Ref21 Blogmeister has posed the most pressing theological question of the day, `Is this a sign of...

I was deeply blessed by the corporate worship at Chongshin Theological Seminary (near Seoul). Services were typically led by students, although sometimes also by faculty. Korean prayer times are intense, often with everyone in the congregation praying out loud simultaneously. Conveniently, the...

Don Hall is our poet laureate. A recent edition of his collected poems includes a lyric for these pluralistic times. Hall writes: The times are propitious for fake religions. Today let's decide which priest, beauty, athlete, moviestar, or Jungian to celebrate by electing him God. Hype springs...

This month's Reformed Man Today is well worth a purchase . A s well as having a rather fetching picture of Mark Dever on the front looking a little like Tom Cruise in Top Gun (as they might have said in the sixties if they had had access to time travel, those reflecting glassses are so eighties ,...

Educator Allan Shedlin has recently conducted a series of 100 interviews documenting what fathers can learn from being fathers. According to Shedlin, being a dad -- reminds fathers of what is really important, of what needs are fundamental; -- exposes them to a new, deeper kind of love; --...

Preparing a lecture which touches on the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, especially her understanding of evil as epitomised in the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann (who, contra some Reformed "thinkers," -- ahem! -- seemed to think that the Holocaust really did happen.....) I was struck by Arendt's...

Arkansas Governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is quoted in this week's TIME magazine as saying, "I'm a 'grace' Christian, not a 'law' Christian. The Second Commandment--do unto others--is the basic tenet of my faith." I expect Huckabee's formulation quickly to become a media reference...