The phrase ‘Young, Restless, Reformed’ is getting a bit of a workout these days. Calvinism was nominated by TIME magazine as one of ’10 Ideas Changing The World Right Now’ earlier this year, which means that Calvinism is having some impact on US Christianity. (TIME magazine equates the US with the world more often than …
It completely slipped past my notice that Kevin Rudd (Prime Minister of Australia) and Malcolm Turnbull (Leader of The Opposition) officially launched the Australian release of the ‘Poverty and Justice Bible’ on September 14 in the Great Hall of Parliament House, Canberra. Apparently the Christian Parliamentary Fellowship were there, along with representatives of The Bible …
Back when I was a Brisbanite and a Melburnian (not a Brisbanian or a Melbournite, by the way) I could just jump in the car on my days off and go and visit book shops. Here in provincial South Australia that’s not really an option. We have local franchises of Bookworld and Book City along …
Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck, authors of ‘Why We’re Not Emergent’, reunite to produce ‘Why We Love The Church’, which is subtitled ‘In Praise Of Institutions And Organised Religion’. Having pointed out the departures from biblical Christianity which are present in the ‘Emergent’ movement, DeYoung and Kluck set themselves the task of positively outlining a …
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