Carl Trueman's Posts

Carl Trueman's Posts

So what is Rod Dreher's problem?

Carl Trueman
Sep 29, 2015
Rod Dreher has a typically pungent piece on the matters that have apparently caused much hilarity and Scotch drinking in Moscow, Idaho. I wonder what Rod's particular problem is? Is he an idiot incapable of reading English? A buffoon who doesn't understand the brilliance of self-published...

Either/or?

Carl Trueman
Sep 23, 2015
Over at his blog, Douglas Wilson has an interesting post on why Christian women are prettier . I was particularly struck by this paragraph: "Unbelieving women either compete for the attention of men through outlandish messages that communicate some variation of “easy lay,” or in...

Three quick questions for "thick" -- as opposed to "thin" -- complementarians

Carl Trueman
Sep 19, 2015
Can Christians vote for Carly Fiorina for President? If so, aren't the questions of whether women should lift weights in the gym or how they should give traffic directions to men a bit of a non-issue? Or am I missing something here? I think we should be told...

Predictable, all too predictable.

Carl Trueman
Sep 2, 2015
The return of Tullian Tchividjian to a ministry role is scarcely surprising, though the speed would no doubt make even Jimmy Swaggart green with envy. It is the logical outcome of the culture of celebrity which has been consciously cultivated most disappointingly by some in reformed evangelical...

Predictable, all too predictable.

Carl Trueman
Sep 2, 2015
The return of Tullian Tchividjian to a ministry role is scarcely surprising, though the speed would no doubt make even Jimmy Swaggart green with envy. It is the logical outcome of the culture of celebrity which has been consciously cultivated most disappointingly by some in reformed evangelical...

Five Easy Pieces

Carl Trueman
Aug 25, 2015
A number of good new books have landed on my desk over the last few weeks. John Macleod, Scottish Theology in relation to Church History . These are lectures given at Westminster Theological Seminary in 1939. They have been available for man years but are republished here with a new foreword by Ian...

Accidental Feminist or Vlad the Impaler?

Carl Trueman
Aug 24, 2015
Perhaps six days is a little short for an accidental feminist retrospective, but, given the feedback Aimee and I have received for our two posts on John Piper, the time seems ripe for such. Some cheered us for speaking out against the increasingly patriarchal sounds coming from leading...

An Accidental Feminist?

Carl Trueman
Aug 18, 2015
Yesterday my fellow Spinblogger, Aimee Byrd, offered a penetrating and welcome critique of the advice given by John Piper to an inquiry about whether it was legitimate for women to serve as police officers. She cited this passage in particular as problematic: At the heart of mature manhood is a...

When the 'P' word is apparently not 'Presbyterianism'

Carl Trueman
Aug 10, 2015
Karl Marx commented that history repeats itself the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. When it comes to ministerial falls, sadly the tradition today is to go straight to farce. Thus it is with Tullian Tchividjian’s fall and rise. All of the celebrity conventions are there: The use of...

Cecil the Lion

Carl Trueman
Jul 29, 2015
There is a moment towards the end of the film, Calvary , where the priest - a good, innocent priest -- is kneeling on the beach with a parishioner (a victim of some other priest's abuse) pointing a gun at his head. The parishioner asks the priest if he cried when he found his beloved dog slain...