So here are some true facts in a skewed narrative. The author of this report, Stephen Welch, is lamenting the demise of Knox Theological Seminary, his alma mater. Allow me to provide a bit more perspective. Back in the heyday of Knox being more to the writer’s liking, he wants to say there was no …
The TSA of the Reformed World
Justin Taylor posts a helpful summary by Andrew Cowan of the N.T. Wright word-flurry at ETS this year. You can read about that here. This seems a quite reasonable summary to me, and it means that Wright is not a stalking horse for some kind of Romanist self-righteousness. But this means, in its turn, that …
Beyond Sad
Last week I commented briefly on this post by Scott Clark. Since that time I have thought about it some more, and wanted to make some follow-up comments. That the whole thing was about as out of line as it gets was revealed in how Scott Clark has handled the comments afterwards. When the original …
Or Grangeville Might Work
Curses! Foiled again! What, oh what, can we do when these folks are so clearly on to us? Who among us is the spy for Escondido (2 Kings 6:11)? Who among us hath revealed our most secret stratagems and evil designs? There is is nothing for it now but to pack up and move down …
Not the Clerk of Session
I am currently teaching an elective on Jonathan Edwards at New St. Andrews, and something we recently covered made me realize the ways in which historic evangelicals need to speak and be heard, and need at the same time to listen carefully. The Reformation was a revival of true gospel preaching, and such gospel preaching …
Ecumenical Polemics
This morning Trinity Reformed Church and Christ Church held a joint service, which we do every year on Reformation Sunday. Peter Leithart preached from Galatians 2 and 3, on Trinitarian justification, and while he was preaching, several of the premises he laid out on the way to his conclusion had an additional benefit of helping …
Grace Running Around Loose
I know that not all the readers of this blog are Protestant, but most are, and so I would like to ask you all to take a moment to thank the Lord for the faith and courage of our dear brother, Dr. Martin Luther. We are now just seven years away from celebrating 500 years …
Pressurized Two by Fours
And I can’t let this one pass by. In the course of his argument, Carl Trueman mentioned an oddity that he had noticed — that men who are conservative in their theology, and capable of great precision and nuance, turned suddenly simplistic when it came to political analysis. Hey, worth thinking about, right? But the …
Life Outside the Confession
The hurly burly of life is exasperating to the tidy-minded, and the tidy-minded always want to carve out a niche where that exasperation can be ameliorated. That carved out niche is an artificial world where the rules can be enforced — as they can be enforced in a chess game. For Reformed Christians who are …
Regular Wine That Got Here Remarkably
When Jesus is teaching Nicodemus about the absolute necessity of the new birth, Nicodemus does not understand what He is talking about. In response to that bafflement, Jesus says this: If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things (John 3:12)? Catch …