With apologies to Dr. Seuss a tag-team smack-down on Christmas. First up Andrew Webb on the Building Old School Churches blog asks “Why Do Presbyterians Observe Holy Days?” (That’s where the excellent picture at the top of this page comes from.) There’s quite a lot to get through, but it is a thorough historical and …
Thank-you Christine. Monsieur Calvin was a Christmas present which was reconsidered in favour of something else, apparently. Tomorrow he’s going to the desk in my office at mgpc.
Today at mgpc we noted that it was Reformation Sunday, which falls each year on the last Sunday of October closest in date to October 31. It marks the date during 1517 when Martin Luther was reported to have nailed his 95 theses on the church door at Wittenburg. All Protestants share this as an …
The July edition of Australian Presbyterian has a somewhat obscure choice for its cover feature. J. Gresham Machen was a US Presbyterian from the first half of the 20th century. He was probably the last great Princeton Presbyterian theologian. Carl Trueman is interviewed while Peter Barnes and D.G. Hart (who has written a Machen biography) …
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