Postcards from Palookaville

I wonder if there is a more neglected text in the New Testament in the current revival of interest in reformed theology than Eph. 5:12? In the reaction to the taboos of old-style fundamentalism, there is surely a danger that we have lost all sense of what is biblically appropriate when it comes to...

A group of Italian Presbyterians and Baptists have united to see if they can sponsor a translation of Machen's great little book, Christianity and Liberalism , into Italian. To those who have never read the book, it is a succinct and precise expose the basic issues at stake between orthodox...

A group of Italian Presbyterians and Baptists have united to see if they can sponsor a translation of Machen's great little book, Christianity and Liberalism , into Italian. To those who have never read the book, it is a succinct and precise expose the basic issues at stake between orthodox...

The Aquila Report, source of all world knowledge for confessional Presbyterians, has published its list of the top fifty stories which it ran this year. At the head of the list is an entry from Anthony Bradley. It is nearly a year old and I missed it first time around but, for any who do not yet...

The Aquila Report, source of all world knowledge for confessional Presbyterians, has published its list of the top fifty stories which it ran this year. At the head of the list is an entry from Anthony Bradley. It is nearly a year old and I missed it first time around but, for any who do not yet...

Has anything good come out of the Black Country? Ok, it did provide us with Slade and some of the great heavy metal bands of the 70s, and Tolkien with the original for Mordor. But has anything happened since then? Well, the Rev. Mike Smith, who recently picked up some Black Country in my own accent...

Has anything good come out of the Black Country? Ok, it did provide us with Slade and some of the great heavy metal bands of the 70s, and Tolkien with the original for Mordor. But has anything happened since then? Well, the Rev. Mike Smith, who recently picked up some Black Country in my own accent...

In light of my recent post on Ed Young's risible `sexperiment', a friend asked me this week about the current trend among some pastors for referring to sexual matters in graphic detail in books and sermons. Having been rightly rebuked by my wife once for using the phrase `pole dancer' when...

In light of my recent post on Ed Young's risible `sexperiment', a friend asked me this week about the current trend among some pastors for referring to sexual matters in graphic detail in books and sermons. Having been rightly rebuked by my wife once for using the phrase `pole dancer' when...

Two new books have come out in the UK which do not seem as yet to be available in the USA. One is edited by my old Aberdeen colleague, Brian Rosner, and is a collection of essays on the cross in 1 Corinthians. The other is Serving God's Words: Windows on Preaching and Ministry , a Festschrift for...