Is Trueman a Marxist? Well, as that nice, loyal Mr Lieberman might say, `That's a good question!' And, as it now appears that it is not seeing class struggle but rather belief in graduated income tax that defines a Marxist, I guess I do stand in that long line of Marxists which -- ahem -- includes...

On Friday last week, Willie Mackenzie of CFP gave me an advance copy of Douglas F. Kelly's forthcoming Systematic Theology I: The God Who Is -- The Holy Trinity . It looks excellent. Three things are striking. First, Kelly interacts extensively with the Church Fathers, especially the Easterns (...

My friend John Macleod's Banner in the West: a Spiritual History of Lewis and Harris (Birlinn) is out as a beautifully produced hardback. Being married to a girl from Lewis, the Outer Hebrides are yet another place where I am not native but have the equivalent of a green card, being, as is the way...

One of the advantages of the British system of democracy has to be the relative brevity of the election season. An election can be called any time within the five year period and the trick for the incumbents is to get the timing right, though this is not always the case, as with the disastrous...