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I have just received a copy of Phil Ryken's new (almost) book, Discovering God in Stories from the Bible (P & R) in which he examines the attributes of God from the stories of Moses, Saul, David and Job and others. This is a reprint from a work Phil published a decade ago but can now be...

I will ignore that upstart Smith's semigerontophobic rant, which merely reinforces the hegemonic dominance of youth, and his stating of the obvious (Of course, I want to define the universe! There's nobody else I would trust to do it, nobody else remotely competent. Certainly not some young person...

Yale University Press has just released Jonathan Edwards's "Sinners in Hands of an Angry God": A Casebook , edited by Wilson Kimnach, Caleb Maskell, and Ken Minkema. The book has a great introduction, the text of the sermon, and selections from a wide variety of interpreters and commenters on...

To contextualise Jeremy's comments for miserable middle aged men like Trueman for whom New Kids on the Block and the Spice Girls are completely unknown quantities, `It's a bit like when Pink Floyd got back together in 2005. Tense but creative.' And hopefully not a bit like when The Jam reunited...

The Knights of St Columbus, a Catholic organisation, have just released the results of a survey of young Americans. The good news is that 85% of young Catholics believe in God, which, in terms of the proportion of reality to the ideal, brought to mind memories of the great Meatloaf song, `Two out...

The only question I have about this article is whether or not it was written by Carl using a pseudonym.

The death of archeologist and Assyriologist, Professor Donald Wiseman, whose evangelical convictions led him to study the connections between archeological doscoveries and the Old Testament, is reported here .

Let me join in the congratulations. Wheaton is deeply blessed to have as its eighth president a man of Phil's integrity, caliber, and godliness. If you have not yet seen it, below is a video of Phil addressing the congregation at Tenth on Sunday: http://vimeo.com/9622279 It is a wonderful example...

This is certainly good news for Wheaton and good news for Phil. Perhaps the only folks for whom this isn't good news is the congregation at Tenth in Philadelphia, as well as for those of us in the greater Philadelphia region (like myself) who enjoyed having Phil in the area and bumping into him...

Dear Mr Thomas, I am disappointed, to say the least, at the return of Trueman and Trotter, those tired old reactionary sexists, to the Ref21 blog. Utter disgraces both. So let me recommend that readers write in and demand that the editorial staff require them to go for re-education to the following...