Reformation21

We are having a great PCRT in Grand Rapids this weekend. Our speakers Iain Duguid, David Garner, and David Murray have been terrific on our theme of Holiness and Honor: A Reformed View of Marriage and Sex. We also had an insightful Q&A session. Unfortunately, it was way too short to get to even...

"Presbyterians Approve Gay Marriage in Church Constitution." That was the headline under which The Wall Street Journal ran the St. Patrick's Day AP article . According to the PCUSA's revised order, "marriage involves a unique commitment between two people, traditionally a man and a woman, to love...

Jose Da Sagovia has written a helpful and thought provoking piece on the American Dream and how it relates to Arthur Miller, this isn't for the faint hearted!! There's been a few posts about Phillip Jensen and I wouldn't want readers to think that they should write off the Jensen's. Phillip's...

I'm currently in China, where I do not have access to Gmail, Facebook, or Twitter. I suppose this is an enforced Lent for me. But I do have access to Reformation21 for some reason. I guess we are not quite that dangerous... I'm here for a 10 year anniversary of a Seminary. Where? I cannot say, of...

Over the last while I've had a number of people talk to me about different situations and then invoke some Reformed Christian guru saying ''Such and such would be turning in his grave if he knew''. It's become a kind of reformed mantra. It is meant to imply that we (normally I) have ruined some...

At the risk of a sledgehammer crushing a nut, my good friend Matthew Roberts who's the minister of Trinity Church, York has written the following regarding the video of Phillip Jensen. See previous posts here and here . I should say despite my criticism of Phillip I do love the man. I particularly...

The news broke this week that City Church San Francisco has reversed its prohibition against practicing homosexuals being admitted into church membership (see here ). Previously, only celibate homosexuals were accepted as biblically faithful Christians. Senior Pastor Fred Harrell explained the...

Follow the links to read the introduction and part one of this series. "In forming a catalogue of Scripture," Calvin writes, "they [the Roman Catholic Council of Trent] mark all the books with the same chalk, and insist on placing the Apocrypha in the same rank with the others." Thus Calvin...

Last week Paul Levy drew our attention to this video where Phillip Jensen worries that Calvinists "preach the system" rather than "preaching the Bible." Mike Ovey has responded, quite well I think, to Jensen's worry here . (HT: Jonty Rhodes.)

The ECT articles that were originally planned for Ref21 have been published on First Things . I would encourage you to read them all but particularly Carl's last article in the series . Let me quote from Trueman speaking of what has happened in the last 10 years with regards to the Young Restless...