Carl Trueman's Posts

Carl Trueman's Posts

Over at First Things , a Lutheran pastor has offered a critique of Gerhard Forde's Lutheran theology and connected it to the recent fall of Tullian Tchividjian. Mark Jones has offered a measured response at Reformation21 . Both articles make good points. Tchividjian's understanding of...
The release of a video showing Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Senior Director of Planned Parenthood's Medical Services Department, allegedly speaking of how to extract the body part of aborted children for commercial purposes is shocking but should not shock. Indeed, if you are shocked, you need to ask...
Dave Moore has an excellent post on the selective outrage of evangelicals over gay marriage. Here is the core of his argument: " We believe homosexuality is a sin. We also believe that gluttony, gossip, adultery, sex outside of marriage, racism, unscrupulous business practices, the love of...
Thanks to a lead from my favourite magazine, Private Eye , I found this conference online. The prize for the title which packs more gibberish per inch than any other has to go to Daniel Massie (The Robert Gordon University), for ‘Jaws: The Case of the Archetypal American Villain as Queer...
I was reminded by events elsewhere yesterday how much I rely on my elders. The task of the elder is to pastor the pastor. If they do not do it, nobody else will. That means there will be times when the elder has to confront his pastor because he sees that his teaching, or his life, or maybe both,...
Paul Helm has an interesting piece critiquing the critics of megapastordom over at his blog, Helm’s Deep. Three things require a brief response. First, it is clear that Paul does not understand how discipline in a Presbyterian context should work. In actual fact, disciplinary charges need not...
While Aimee was off not doing stairs and trying to become a female Bond villain, on Tuesday the rest of Team Spin was refreshing the parts ot the theological world which other, more transformational, evangelical organizations cannot reach. Day Two of the Yale seminar was somewhat more sedate than...
Todd and I are spending much of this week attending a private Church Leadership and Growth seminar at Yale Divinity School, organized by my old postgraduate friend, Bruce Gordon, the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History and co-editor with me of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of...
At our recording session last week, la Diva was complaining in a loud, if not stentorian, voice that the Alliance doesn't promote her like other more prestigious outfits promote their famous housewife theologians , complete with snazzy photo shoots and respectful interviews. Soooo... the Puppet...
Of all the advantages of creeds and confessions, the most neglected and yet one of the most important is the element of protest. Forgive me indulging my Bannermania once again, but The Ecclesiologist puts it this way: ‘In its office to those that are without its pale, it is the duty of the...