YELPS FOR FREEDOM
YELPS FOR FREEDOM The Christian view of life is that sin makes blind fools of us all. In the year before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1776 Dr […]
Book Review: Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy
Review of Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy : Discovering the Grace of Lament, Wheaton: Crossway, 2019. Pastor Vroegop and his wife suffered the stillbirth of their daughter, Sylvia, […]
EXPERTS AND MENTAL HEALTH
EXPERTS AND MENTAL HEALTH Every week or so, the media will publicise the need for more money and legislation to ensure better mental health in the community. Recently we were […]
SPEAKING APPROPRIATELY
SPEAKING APPROPRIATELY Near the end of his short epistle, Jude tells his readers to respond with sensitivity to others, according to their situation (Jude 22-23). Alas, the text is something […]
Review of Bradley G. Green, Augustine of Hippo: His Life and Impact, Fearn: Christian Focus, 2020.
Christian Focus has ventured into the area of the Early Church Fathers, and this is to be welcomed. One who did so much earlier was B. B. Warfield who famously […]
THE DEATH OF EMILY SO
The imminent death of little Emily, aged five, has hung like a black cloud over our family ever since her diagnosis with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) in late October […]
Review of Rhett P. Dodson, With a Mighty Triumph!: Christ’s Resurrection and Ours, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2021.
The title of this work comes from Robert Lowry’s hymn Low in the Grave He Lay (the lyrics are better than the grammar), and the content is an exposition of 1 Corinthians […]
SYNODS, THE WORD, AND THE WORLD
Few things in life are as pretentious or embarrassing as liberal Church synods, and in May 2022 there were two Anglican efforts to illustrate this – one in England and […]
BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT
Christians live between life here on earth and the life to come. Sometimes life here seems rather mundane – we are washing dishes, picking up the washing, taking out the […]
Review of John Newton’s Diary, 1766
Review of John Newton’s Diary, 1766, edited by Marylynn Rouse for the John Newton Project, 2021. This is Newton’s diary for 1766, under the theme of ‘developing a pastoral ministry’. There […]
A WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
At Thessalonica, Paul and the early Christian evangelists were accused of being men who had ‘turned the world upside down’ (Acts 17:6). Actually, they were trying to turn it right-side […]
RESURRECTION AND PERSECUTION
At first glance, resurrection and persecution may not seem to be related, unless linked by martyrdom. After all, Richard Dawkins has claimed that religion was invented as a ‘comfort-blanket’ to […]
Review of James Macpherson, Notes from Woketopia, Redland Bay: Connor Court Publishing, 2021.
The next candidate to be a judge on the US Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, was recently asked for her definition of a woman. She replied that she could not […]
Review of Lindsey Tollefson, Psalms for Trials, Moscow, Idaho: Canon Press, 2018.
Lindsey Tollefson has produced a set of reflections on 44 Psalms, all to do with the trials which we face in life. The result is worthwhile, although the result is […]
ALL THINGS IN MODERATION?
There is nothing like a breath of fresh air after a bout of mask-wearing or a lockdown, and the same is true in looking at life, and the claims of […]
THE GRIEF OF WAR
If anyone has exposed the human condition more incisively and pungently than Blaise Pascal, I have yet to read him or her. At present we live with the drums of […]