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Carl Trueman's Posts

Beth Moore Deserves Better

Carl Trueman
Jan 13, 2015
Yesterday Aimee brought my attention to a recent post by Beth Moore. In it, Moore complains about the scurvy treatment she has received online. As I read the article, I could not help but think that Beth Moore deserves better, much better. That feeling surprised me. I generally do not have a lot of...

Freedom is a joke. Specifically, a satirical joke.

Carl Trueman
Jan 9, 2015
The recent terrorist attack in Paris highlights perhaps the great political dilemma of the current age, that of Western freedoms being used to destroy Western freedoms. But perhaps just as importantly, its target was perfectly chosen. Democracy requires more than the legal right to vote. It...

Oral Roberts, Existentialist

Carl Trueman
Jan 6, 2015
Politico published an interesting article on Oral Roberts over the weekend. Unlike the typical hit-piece one might expect on such a figure, the portrait of Roberts here is more nuanced. Perhaps the key paragraph is this: At the dawn of the modern media age, Roberts expanded the evangelical message...

Friendship: Loss and Gain

Carl Trueman
Dec 31, 2014
The confusion and contradictory statements emanating from Wheaton College over same sex attraction some weeks ago provoked the Ref Pack into revisiting a topic which Aimee and I have written on before: the cheapening and loss of the category of friendship. That episode airs today. Listeners who...

A Gay Vicar's View

Carl Trueman
Dec 29, 2014
A friend brought my attention to this article by an Anglican priest, Andrew Foreshew-Cain, over the weekend. Foreshew-Cain is distressed by Archbishop Welby’s stand on gay marriage, especially as it relates to the Anglican priesthood. The article is instructive for a number of reasons. It is...

Shock Christmas Revelations! Pope Admits 'I am Catholic', Bears Confess to Lack of Personal Hygiene, and I Love My Wife.

Carl Trueman
Dec 22, 2014
One of the regular concerns expressed by readers of this blog and listeners to the podcast is the fact that many of the suggestions we make about church life and practice seem to be rather Presbyterian. Some are simply puzzled by this; others are rather offended by it. There is a simple answer: the...

We kind of just do it for fun

Carl Trueman
Dec 17, 2014
As the Ref Pack told Slate Magazine this week, we "kind of do the podcast for fun." That's even the case now, despite doing it under the distinctly unfunny iron fist of the Mad Woman in the Attic. As one might say: yes, we are a movement; yes, we are a revival (what does that even...

A Guest Review: McKnight on Brenneman

Carl Trueman
Dec 15, 2014
Earlier this year, Scot McKnight kindly invited me to review Theo Hobson's Reinventing Liberal Christianity for his blog. In return, I asked him to review Todd Brenneman's new book, Homespun Gospel. Being myself broadly sympathetic to Brenneman's thesis, I knew that Scot would offer a...

Identity Confusion

Carl Trueman
Dec 11, 2014
World magazine has an article this week on the appointment of a celibate gay counselor at Wheaton College. While the evangelical jury still appears to be out on whether same-sex attraction is in itself sinful, the comments of President Ryken look (at least as reported in World) rather confused...

And just because we can....

Carl Trueman
Dec 10, 2014
By popular demand, we reprint here the picture of Paul Levy's wedding, as referred to in this week's podcast. We trust it will be a source of comfort and hope for you. Sadly, 'The Encouraging Tour of Paul Levy's Library' video appears to have been pulled from the web. The Top...