First, it seems only polite to thank all the baptists who wrote to me yesterday to express appreciation for my Baptist History 101 lesson. Believe me, the pleasure was all mine. And you all spelled my name correctly, which was very touching. To be honest, just knowing that my diversion of you from...

Danny Hyde's excellent book on infant baptism is available at a discount price from the Westminster bookstore. A very readable and thoughtful piece, it would make a most excellent gift for Nine Marks interns, Mark Dever, that special Gospel Coalition member in your life or any other examples of...

Apparently, a church in Oregon is suing a former member and her daughter for defamation on a blog. Apart from the difficulty of mounting a successful suit for defamation under the US's admirably lax defamation laws (where not only factual error but deliberate malice must be proved), the whole idea...

One of the most enjoyable aspects of preaching is the way that it forces one to look in more detail at biblical texts than one would typically so do; and this often throws up odd textual peculiarities and apparent throwaway lines that, on reflection, are anything but irrelevant. One such occurs in...