“…the physical nature of faith is audible: how, if you ever get even a taste of it, you feel it in your bones. And in your extremities, and in your senses, and in your reflexes. Religious music that doesn’t convey this aspect of faith isn’t necessarily a failure; I’m not about to condemn Gregorian chant [...]

Purgatorio is back, after a year-long hiatus. As the theme song of Candid Camera used to say, “It’s fun to laugh at yourself/It’s a tonic tried and true/It’s fun to look at yourself/As other people do.” As an evangelical myself, that’s the spirit in which I take that sites playful jabs at our wacky subculture. [...]

Even name tags wouldn’t help…unless they came with multiple appendices and glossaries attached.

New post by me over on the Conn-versation Blog.

Since I poked some fun last week at the announcement of an ABC Nightline-sponsored debate on the existence of God, I feel somewhat obligated to link to the actual debate, now that ABC News has put it up online. The debate was between child actor Kirk Cameron and evangelist Ray Comfort on the one side [...]

Carl Trueman confirms on Reformation21 that the rumors circulating around the web for the past several days are true: Francis J. Beckwith, president of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), has returned to the Roman Catholic Church (in which he was raised as a child). Dr. Trueman expresses respect for Beckwith’s integrity, but also gives his [...]

From the Reformation21 blog (May 4, 2007), by Westminster Theological Seminary Professor of Historical Theology and Church History and Dean of Faculty Dr. Carl Trueman:
Phil’s blog got me thinking about the whole issue of women in Reformed and conservative evangelical circles in general. On the whole, I don’t think the church provides the [...]

Created by My True Self (HT: TSK)

It’s Van Til spinning madly in his grave.

This morning we went to Easter services with our daughter and her family at their church in North Carolina. It’s a large suburban church, not quite mega- by today’s Osteenian standard, but still larger than what I prefer. When I’m in such a church it becomes very easy for me to surreptitiously slip my critic’s [...]