Two weeks ago the Ref Pack spoke to Delboy 'Derek' Thomas, the Peter Frampton of Reformed churchmanship. In this week's episode we move from rock to soul, and spend the show talking with the evangelical world's answer to James Brown: Phil Johnson , the hardest working man in evangelicalism The...

Dispo Dan has a fine post today over at Pyromaniacs. I remain amazed at the number of people (including academics, bloggers, and writers for whom disagreement is surely an occupational hazard), who can only read criticism and disagreement through the lens of anger and bitterness. Good on TeamPyro...

Over at Jesus Creed, Scot McKnight yesterday offered a thoughtful and provocative review of the new biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles Marsh. Scot has kindly given me permission to post an extended extract here. All I would say in advance is that it seems that Bonhoeffer's close male...

This week's Spin is up and in this episode the team tackle a number of closely related issues: the power of high profile pastors, the psychology of loyal commitment to a big name long after all credibility has really vanished, and the puzzling question of why those who point out that emperors have...