Reformation21

Mark Dever offers some thoughts --the first in a 10-part series on the Church Matters blog.

The Gospel Coalition website is now up and running. It looks sharp, with lots of edifying audio, video, and print materials.

Our friend Tony Reinke over at The Shepherd's Scrapbook (a really good site) has just posted Derek Thomas' lectures on John Owen from PRTS. Think of it, Derek Thomas on John Owen. What a combination! But I can beat it. The Shepherd's Scrapbook has Derek Thomas on John Owen. But ref21 has Derek...

This week I was privileged to attend a Philadelphia book signing for A. Donald MacLeod's new biography of C. Stacey Woods, the first general secretary of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States and the key founder of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. The book is...

Pod Boghal, Head of Communications at the British side of UCCF has sent me an electronic copy of Jim Packer's latest response to recent criticisms of penal substitution. It appeared in NB News , the British Christian Union News magazine. Those wishing to keep up with the latest Christian Union News...

After five long months of illness, the Lord has taken to himself his servant Bob Cannada . Bob is something of a legend in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) , and in the State of Mississippi. He is one of the founding fathers of the PCA; founder and Managing Partner of Butler, Snow, O'Mara,...

Returning to the blog after a few weeks absence, I notice two things: 1. Ligon really needs to stop posting R rated pictures on the page. That one of Shrek in a lady's wig is really too bad and likely to frighten our younger readers (Lig -- if you come after the bear cubs, those Momma Bears will...

Well, I'm truly humbled and now find myself, as the obviously more talented and better looking half of the duo, in the dilemma described by Lawrence of Arabia in Seven Pillars of Wisdom : `There was a craving to be famous; and a horror of being known to like being known.' I must thank all those...

Just finishing Bob Letham's brilliant and accessible Through Western Eyes: Eastern Orthodoxy -- a Reformed Perspective (Christian Focus). Typical of Bob's style -- awesome learning, accessible writing, and a fine critical exposition of the history and theology of Orthodoxy which is careful and...

I have remained silent for too long. Trueman's reactionary commendation of Bob Letham on Orthodoxy cannot go without response, so I've invited one of Transylvania's leading theologians to respond: Vlad Dracul -- no, not the medieval scourge of the Carpathian mountains who inspired Bram Stoker's...