When students ask me what they need to do to become good church historians, I always answer -- Read history, any history, as long as it is well-written. So here are five recommendations of new books in 2012 which some might want to think about asking for as presents: Best Sunday afternoon read in...

.... and when it comes, it apparently brings great irony. The shadowy figure known to the Reformed Underground simply as 'The Librarian' has brought to my attention the fact that the email advertising this year's Banner of Truth's "Christmas specials" includes the biography of that great fan of all...

In the OPC journal Ordained Servant, OPC minister Greg Reynolds has a very thought-provoking article on the importance of actual, physical presence in ministry and beyond which you can find here . In the meantime I am recovering from the twin trauma of seeing Rick Phillips in the mandatory PCA...

Since the Beautiful People managed to get Rodney Trotter fired last year (if anyone has seen him, let me know -- his mother is very worried), it now falls to me to be the pessimistic prophetic voice of the Average-to-Ugly People. I just came across this article: a salutary sartorial warning to all...