Apparently the YRR version of “Calvinism” is #3 with a bullet. Compare this story with the story from TIME in 1947 (HT: Justin Taylor).
Author: R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He is professor emeritus of church history and historical theology at Westminster Seminary California, where he taught for 29 years. He also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007 and the Heidelcast since 2009.
Scholars' Book Talk
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A Remarkable Story
Michael is a visitor to our congregation. He has a gift and zeal for boldness in witness. You may remember that, a while back, he was robbed. Well, he had another encounter with one of his robbers.
The Survival of Evangelicalism
Mark Galli at CT has responded to Michael Spencer’s posts on the coming collapse of “evangelicalism.” There are two very interesting things about this response.
Pastor Dechert is Reading RRC
At Guard Yourselves from Idols.
If Ursinus Read USA Today
At DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed.
Wes Bredenhof's Review of RRC Online
At his blog.
Uproar: Prostitute Buried Near Calvin
Critics of a feminist-advocate-prostitute who was recently buried in the same cemetery in which Calvin is believed to have been buried are in an uproar because she’s she has been disinterred and reburied.
Will the Evangelical Alliance with the Political Right Doom It?
One writer thinks so.
Machen's Memo to Christians in the Mainline
“Get out.” If things were bad enough to warrant separation from the mainline in 1935 how much more do circumstances warrant separation? Has the PCUSA become more or less faithful to the Word and to the Westminster Standards since 1935? To ask . . . Continue reading →
Odds and Ends: CRT on Google and More
Thanks to Wes White for keeping us abreast of the Classic Reformed Theology available via Google Books. If the name Bernard DeMoor or the Leiden Synopsismeans anything to you then you’ll understand. Wes Bredenhof: Ways to Help Your Children Leave the Church. . . . Continue reading →
"Thus Think and Smoke Tobacco"
This is the refrain from a poem by Ralph Erskine. He anticipated the NTJ by two hundred fifty years. Erskine (d. 1752) was one of those who upheld the gospel against the moralists of his day and he was one of the . . . Continue reading →
Guy Waters Analyzes NTW's Reply to Piper
The American edition of the book is not out yet, but Guy Waters (and the fellows at Christ the Center) have the British edition and they have analyzed it carefully. As always Guy does an admirable job of stating the question, of . . . Continue reading →
The Wonder of Justification By Faith
Good, clear stuff from Wes White.
Ira Glass (This American Life) On Storytelling
Not that preachers are called to spin homely yarns but preaching is a kind of story telling. We have a narrative (the history of redemption) in which people must locate themselves and with which they need to learn to identify. Ira Glass . . . Continue reading →
Video: Selderhuis on Calvin
Last month Herman Selderhuis was in Orlando giving lectures on Calvin at RTS. You can see the video here. Thanks to LO for the video.
Mouw Reviews Muether's Bio of Van Til
Hey Mikey, He likes it! You can order your copy from The Bookstore at WSC.
Watch New WSC Video
It’s posted to the WSC Facebook page. The 11 minute video features Bob Godfrey, Mike Horton (among other faculty) and some notable WSC alumni.
Nunc Super Tunc
The title is Latin for “Now is superior to then.”1 It’s a shorthand way of getting at an attitude that is widespread among American Christians that whatever we think and do now is necessarily superior to anything that was thought and done . . . Continue reading →
How and Where Machen Spent his Parrothood
Of course there’s no such word as “Parrothood” properly but it get at what Machen said about his childhood education.