Anthony Bradley has asked a thought-provoking question : why is 'Reformed' more often associated with Baptists than Presbyterians in popular parlance in the current climate? A number of thoughts come to mind. 'Reformed' as a term has expanded its meaning over the years to the point where it is no...

Practical Ethics , a webpage based at the University of Oxford, has an interesting post on research that suggests a society's crime rate will be higher where there is widespread rejection of the notion of hell. Statistics are statistics, of course, and so the findings will no doubt be contested;...

Listening to my lectures on Medieval Church on iTunes, Justin Taylor heard me make this statement which is now, ten years on, somewhat amusing: "I'm recommending GR Evans on Bernard of C based on her reputation, even though I haven't read it yet. I'm playing the percentage game, as it were." It...

A friend brought my attention to the following trailer and promotional website this morning. It is hard to imagine how a film of Augustine's life could fail to be interesting. And with Franco Nero in the cast, we can assume it will be excellent. We can only hope that he plays his character as a...