“Those who go by the nickname TR are actually curators of the Reformed mausoleum, and not scholars in the Reformed tradition. The way we can tell this is that—in defense of keeping the marble floors of their mausoleum polished and shiny—they deploy Eck’s argument against Luther. Their blood stirs when they hear the story about Athanasius saying that he was contra museum because they really like that kind of thing when it is behind glass in the museum of church history. But when someone actually stands up against the living and breathing ecclesiastical Mitred Ones, they haul this argument out as shamelessly as a theologian who thinks he is supposed to have an infallible magisterium. And they do this against people who they say are trying to ‘lead them down the road to Rome.’ But how can you lead people to Rome when they are already there.”
Shiny New Letters for a Brand Spanking New Year
Letter to the Editor: I began reading C/A in its infancy. I was on my way oiu of Roman Catholicism. My wife and 5 young home-schooled children came with me on this journey. I learned ...
11 Resolutions for 2024, Culture War Edition
Introduction: It is a custom among our people to make resolutions for the new year, and as this is the morning of January 1, 2024, a brand spanking new year, and one that promises to be every ...
God’s Testimony
We are accustomed to think of baptism as a marker of our testimony. By it we declare our allegiance to Christ, and our intention to live before Him as sincere Christians. This is quite true, and it is particularly in evidence when we baptize someone on the basis of his profession of faith. He was …
State of the Church 2024
The Moscow Mood: As you might know by now, the tone coming out of Moscow has gained a little bit of notoriety. For good or ill, this reputation shows no signs of going away, and because you are likely to be fielding questions about it, I thought that it would be good to use our …
Self-Referential Steerage
“If this is the kind of reasoning that is going to be the guide for the men at the PCA helm, it will soon become apparent to the world that they are steering by the mast in front of them, and not by the North Star at all.”
As If It Needed to be Stickier
The New Perspective on Paul “is thrown in to add a little stickiness to the doctrinal taffy pull that we have going on here.”
Jacob and Whitney
Human history begins with a wedding. God fashioned Adam from the dust of the ground, and set him to work. His first assigned task was to tend and keep the Garden (Gen. 2:15). His second assigned task was to name all the animals, looking to see if among them there might be a suitable helper …
They Can Always Fix That
Swimming in Syrup
“I do want to say one thing about how they answered the most glaring problem with the study committee—that being the stacked nature of the committee. To put it in terms that the average layman can follow, that committee was as stacked as a double order of golden-brown buttermilks.”