I have received unexpected and unsolicited gifts of two drinking vessels recently. The first, from the person we at the Spin know simply as Evil Amy the Less, the author who last year had the slanderous temerity to base (and indeed name) the character of an alcoholic priest in her novel of medieval...

Donald Macleod has written a moving obituary of the Rev. Dr. Iain D. Campbell. You can find it here .

My favourite church history book of 2016 is Bruce Gordon’s John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion . I confess to being a little partisan: Bruce is my oldest scholarly friend since we were both postgraduates in Scotland in the late 80s and denizens of the Scottish Church...

I’ve spent the last few months finishing up a book with Bob Kolb, the Luther scholar, entitled Between Wittenberg and Geneva: Lutheran and Reformed Theology in Conversation . It is due from Baker later next year. Bob is, for my money, the greatest living Luther scholar in the English-speaking...