The visit of the bishop of Rome to Scotland drew lots of comment around the blogopshere. Presbyterians generally look back to our Confession of Faith from 1646, with its identification of Pope of Rome as the antichrist, and feel we’ve got the market on papal protesting all sewn up. This papal protestor trumps the Presbyterians …

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Bob Kauflin, writing on his Worship Matters blog raises an issue: In a church context it’s sometimes difficult to know the difference between leading the singing and leading the meeting. It’s an important distinction. After outlining a particular scenario of conflict between pastor and song leader, Kauflin observes: At any point, if my pastor communicates …

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In what turned out to be a time of theological reflection at last week’s General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, the name of N.T. (Tom) Wright was mentioned. Some folk were asking the Assembly to bid our theological colleges to provide an evaluation of what is termed ‘The New Perspective On Paul’ from …

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