This attractive advertising card arrived this week. I’ve mentioned the Service before. Consider yourself invited. If you’re going to be in Sydney that night it will be worth attending. Say ‘hello’ and maybe we can find a good cup of coffee afterward. If you can’t make it I’ll see what I can do about publicising …

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Sri Lankan pastor Ajith Fernando’s online essay To Serve Is To Suffer has received a substantial amount of favourable comment on the blogosphere. Some quotes: We have measured success by the standards of the world and fail to challenge the world with the radically different biblical way to fulfillment. The contemporary emphasis on efficiency and …

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In some sort of relationship to my previous post, lots of other Christians have disagreements with each other, not just presbyterian/reformed ones. Some disagreements are absolutely necessary and cannot be avoided. This video features Brian MacLaren being questioned by Scot McKnight. McKnight describes himself as an anabaptist and has had some charitable things to say …

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On the Reformation 21 blog Carl Trueman addresses a rising incidence within the reformed/evangelical community of those who still want to enjoy the omelettes, but while doing so express squeamish scruples about broken eggs: Over the last decade, it has become something of a commonplace in Reformed evangelical circles to decry the level of polemic …

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