“…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 [...]

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 [...]

“Guns don’t kill people” … but they do kill people very efficiently. John Stackhouse brings up a possible overlooked lesson from the recent mass murder at Virginia Tech.

Preparing us for National Poetry Month—and I know you’ve been making your plans for weeks now—my friend Mindy Withrow offers up the poem below by Billy Collins. As I read it, I wondered if we don’t too often treat the text of Scripture the same way.
Introduction to Poetry
I ask them to take a [...]

Faith is one of those words I have struggled with for a long time. As a person of the Reformed persuasion, sola fide is supposed to be the cheer for my team (although I think sometimes semper fi would be better). But what is faith? Reformed theology tells us that you can’t be justified [...]

OK, I know I’ve been on a bit of an evangelical feminist kick here lately. I promise you, though, after reading John Stackhouse’s Finally Feminist last weekend, I went out and split a face cord of firewood. I even spit a few times.
Over the past few days, Rick Phillips has been posting his views on [...]

On the Reformation21 Blog Rev. Rick Phillips decides he just can’t resist getting in a last shot. He writes an “apology” that, in my opinion, ends up being almost worse than the original offense. See my second comment under Ms. Bauer’s response to Rev. Phillips first counter-attack.
Related: Just discovered that John Stackhouse (author of Finally [...]

In the most recent issue of Books & Culture (both print and online), author and home school guru Susan Wise Bauer takes the opportunity of her review of John Stackhouse’s book Finally Feminist to respond to the sharp and sometimes alarmist criticisms that erupted across the Internet after she let out on her blog that [...]

After spending most of this evening writing digests of Charles Hodge and Frances Turretin, I was amused by the following from Thomas Sowell on the hubris of academics who write “as if plain English is beneath their dignity and some seem to regard logic as an unconstitutional infringement of their freedom of [...]