According to the Grand Rapids Press (October 31, 2007) Calvin College hired a Baptist professor of education, Dr. Denise Isom, and is now threatening to remove her tenure-track appointment. The sticking point has become Professor Isom’s refusal to attend a CRCNA congregation. . . . Continue reading →
Just got an email from a pastor in Southern Europe. He reports that one of the families in his congregation has become taken with the FV.
We were having an interesting discussion about the WHI show on “happy-clappy” worship. One of the things for which I have been “banging the drum” is the need for contemporary settings of the Psalms. I love the Book of Psalms for Singing. . . . Continue reading →
Details from Bob Mattes. Here’s the text of the indictment. Here’s Bob’s bottom line at GB: As you can read, LAP has two options open to it: 1. LAP can repent of its errors and demonstrate this by conducting a fair and . . . Continue reading →
The WHI guys have been doing a series on worship. This one is particularly good. This being the Sabbath it seems appropriate to post it.
Over at Green Bagginses, Reed raises the question of the status of NECMs (non-elect covenant members) and how the Federal Vision (FV) views them. There’s much good there, particularly in the quotations from Turretin on temporary faith and the like. That distinction, . . . Continue reading →
My dear friend Carl Trueman has a thoughtful and provocative (what else?) essay in the latest Ref21 (website no longer available). You should read it for yourself, so I won’t try to summarize it here except to say that three of the most . . . Continue reading →
Just out via Evangelical Press (hardcover): Set outside the life of Israel, the book of Job provides a way, either because they do not ask the big questions about life, or because they are swamped by the fact that there seem to . . . Continue reading →
There is political and tribal violence in Kenya. The NYT has the story here. Westminster Seminary California student Peter Mulinge writes to the WSC email list: I ask you to pray for my country there is unrest everywhere, many people have been . . . Continue reading →
