The Far Green Country

One may infer the thesis of Robert Reymond’s The Reformation’s Conflict with Rome: Why It Must Continue! from its title. The conflict between the Reformation and Rome was, and continues to be, both real and necessary for the sake of the gospel. Reymond writes specifically for two purposes, to two different audiences.
Firstly, he writes in [...]

Those familiar with the electioneering of former American President Bill Clinton will remember the primacy given to the economy in his bid for the presidency.  His strategist, James Carville, knew that they could never beat a successful war-time president on issues such as global security or national defense.  In order to win, their campaign would [...]

“I entered on this investigation with considerable misgivings, lest it should turn out that the system of ecclesiastical government with which I am connected is not divine in its origin.” (p. 60)
What would you do if you learned that the Scriptures taught a different form of church government from the practice of your denomination?  Would [...]

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I just finished reading The Reason for God by Tim Keller. Dr. Keller is a well-known minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), the bigger, younger sister to my own denomination, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Back in the late-eighties, Tim moved to Manhattan [...]

Several months ago, I went hunting for a book-length introduction to the Christian faith which I could share with friends and family. At first, I thought I had found my prize in N.T. Wright’s Simply Christian. A friend of mine read it and told me it was solid, and I heard a nice [...]

I just finished reading Simply Christian by N.T. Wright. I had high hopes in beginning this book a month or so ago. I had heard good things about it, and had picked up a copy about a year ago. In the time between purchasing and reading, I had read encouraging blurbs, [...]

Last night while waiting for the stain on my latest pipe to dry, I finished George Marsden’s Jonathan Edwards: A Life. This was not an easy book to get through, for two very different reasons. The first is simply its size; even without appendices, the biography weighs in at 505 pages. To [...]

It’s a well-known fact that I have a habit of collecting copies of the Bible. I’ve explained this in the past - the habit grew out of a quest for the “perfect” Bible edition years ago. (The whole “undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive” thing…) Anyway, I’ve been onto the ESV as a translation since [...]

When I fly to California for work, I have lots of time to read. Today, during my flights, I read Mark Driscoll’s Confessions of a Reformissional Rev cover to cover. My cousin Josiah recommended it to me a few months ago, and it’s been on my Amazon wishlist ever since. Well, providentially, I [...]

I watched this movie tonight in my garage, over a couple of bowls of McClelland’s 5100 bulk pipe tobacco smoked in my Congleton pipe. I considered waiting until tomorrow to collect and post my thoughts, but decided that “fresh” was the way to go with this one.
For starters, wow. No, I mean it: WOW. This [...]