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I suppose many of our readers are at the general assembly. But for those lonely Baptists like me, you can always watch it from the comfort of your home computer on the live webcast . This afternoon they will be looking at the Federal Vision.

Ruth Bell Graham, beloved late wife of Billy Graham, died today. The BGEA website has set up a memorial. memorial. Praise God for a faithful, dignified life, well lived. Ted Olsen has lots of links and quotes.

Our good friend, Martin Downes (he's Welsh, you understand!) has a fascinating interview with Joel Beeke (President of the Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids) here . If you search the site, you'll also find similar interviews with ligon Duncan and yours truly!

My attention has been drawn to a DVD of Bach's Mass in B Minor sponsored by Soli Deo Gloria ( www.SDGmusic.org ). The DVD is produced by Virgin Classics and is a performance of Bach's Mass by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris conducted by John Nelson. It is part of a forthcoming trilogy which will...

I believe I may have seen Carl Trueman at the PCA General Assembly (just arrived back at 3am this morning -- a story for a different time, in which AirTran figures prominently and unhelpfully). However, I'm not sure whether I saw him or not -- styles are so casual at GA that someone like Carl tends...

Following the Westminster Assembly conference I spoke to someone who attended Carl Trueman's lecture, having never heard him before. He told us that it was "the best thing I've ever heard." He backed down a little bit after we laughed at him, out loud, but still, maybe it was worth hearing after...

For those who haven't seen it, there is a moving account of the funeral for three men who were martyred in Turkey on April 18 (for further context, see the May 1 post called "Turkey Martyrs." Here is the report:

Trueman wasn't actually at the assembly; I was standing in for him. And I too had a horrific return journey -- plane cancelled at Charlotte at 11.15 pm, followed by a 600 mile through-the-night car journey with a former Clinton advisor in a rental car whom I had never me before but shared a similar...

From an email by Wayne Grudem (posted with permission): I just learned this morning that Harold O. J. ("Joe") Brown, professor of theology at Reformed Theological Seminary - Charlotte, NC, and a long-time friend, is gravely ill. His cancer from several years ago has returned and a tumor is...

Back in the UK I hear rumours that a certain well-known Welsh Baptist minister who read a piece I wrote in Themelios on J I Packer and the Anglo-Welsh evangelical crisis of 1966, has been heard to lament loudly at a recent conference (with more than a little Celtic irony), `What a disaster!...