…with apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein. Kevin DeYoung offers three posts ‘Can Pietism and Confessionalism Be Friends?’ Part one Part two Part three DeYoung seeks to address the contention that: Pietism, it is said, emphasizes dramatic conversions, tends toward individualism, pushes for unity based on shared experience, and pays little attention to careful doctrinal formulation. …

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Harry Reeder exhorts the church to consider the traditions it has received humbly, while being prepared to hold them loosely enough to ensure they always serve our mission: “Therefore, we cannot dismiss the past nor should we live in the past. The church must learn from the past yet avoid becoming a museum of the …

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PDFs of the April – May 2011 edition of New Directions, the newspaper of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland are available for download. Reflections on the aftermath of the floods/cyclones. Substantial growth in the Queensland Theological College. Arch MacNicol and Bruce Winter both acknowledged as they retire from their current ministries. Michael Campbell settles in …

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