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IS HERESY. In other words, sometimes we just have to give them enough rope, speaking and publishing, to hang their credibility among the otherwise gullible faithful. This truism is sponsored most recently by the folks at the Biologos web site. Many readers of Reformation 21 will remember the tussle...

Philip Pullman, the author of the trilogy, His Dark Materials ("Lord of the Rings" it is not), is to release a book this coming weekend called, The Good man Jesus, and the Scoundrel Christ . Ahead of the launch, he has, it appears, received threats as to his safety -- though this accountin The...

In just a few short weeks, the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology will return to the lovely Upcountry of South Carolina. We're going to give you a preview of what to expect when you come to Greenville here at Reformation 21 over the next couple weeks. On Friday April 16, Cornel Venema,...

Thanks, Rick. It was interesting in reading Fr Steel's "testimony" how prominent the issue of authority was. I found the following the most interesting piece of what he said: With all that is going on around the Anglican Communion presently, and particularly within the C of E and how she makes...

For some years, those of us alarmed about the federal vision theology have identified it as an obvious pathway to Roman Catholicism. For this view, we are accused of witch-hunting and absurd slippery-slopism. Yet FV advocates keep converting to Rome, the most recent of which is Fr Jeff Steel,...

I don't know much about Shawn Holes , except that he was in Glasgow last week preaching the Gospel on the street, and then arrested and charged with making homophobic and prejudiced statements. Apparently someone asked him what he thought about homosexuality; when he said it was a sin, he was...

We praise the Lord for a tremendous weekend in the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology, meeting at the jam-packed Byron Center First CRC in Grand Rapids. Saturday was one of those unforgettable PCRT days that the Lord so often provides us, a day of feasting and great spiritual joy. Many...

Things have sure heated up here in South Carolina over the move by the ARP general synod to ensure doctrinal fidelity at its denominational college and seminary, Erskine. As usually happens, the continuing conflict has only shown how necessary that synod's action really was.

Mark Beach has done us all a service by publishing an introduction to Calvin's Institutes -- Piety's Wisdom .I have to confess that my first encounter with Calvin's magnum opus proved a difficult one. Calvin's logic was not mine at the time, and I have discovered over the past thirty years that I...

Just landed on my desk: a copy of The Trials of Theology: Becoming a 'Proven Worker' in a Dangerous Business edited by Andrew J. B. Cameron and Brian S. Rosner (Christian Focus). Essays include voices from the past (Luther, Spurgeon, Warfield, Bonhoeffer and Lewis) and the present (John Woodhouse,...