Postcards from Palookaville

A week in the UK with the pastors at the Proclamation Trust and a return to the US indicates it is business as usual for the influential evangelical organisations in both places. Over there, Levy and I were the token Presbyterians, surrounded by William Taylor and the Anglicans on the one side and...

A strange weekend. Arrived in the UK Saturday and stayed with Paul Levy which was positively Dostoevskian. I had been convinced by various emails sent to Reformation 21 that Levy was, in fact, a pseudonymous clown I had myself invented for the blog, though I was always suspicious of the man's...

A strange weekend. Arrived in the UK Saturday and stayed with Paul Levy which was positively Dostoevskian. I had been convinced by various emails sent to Reformation 21 that Levy was, in fact, a pseudonymous clown I had myself invented for the blog, though I was always suspicious of the man's...

Yesterday, I reflected on the forgotten insight of Luther: not his development of the theology of the cross but rather his development of the idea of the theologian of the cross. Behind this idea, however, lies an even more profound and revolutionary idea: that of the God of the cross. The final...

One of the things that is so striking about the current revival of interest in Reformation theology, broadly conceived, is the absence of perhaps the most glorious contribution of Martin Luther to theological discourse: the notion of the theologian of the cross. At a meeting of the Saxon Chapter of...

One of the things that is so striking about the current revival of interest in Reformation theology, broadly conceived, is the absence of perhaps the most glorious contribution of Martin Luther to theological discourse: the notion of the theologian of the cross. At a meeting of the Saxon Chapter of...

"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes. Silver Blaze , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sometimes it is the dogs that do not...

"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes. Silver Blaze , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sometimes it is the dogs that do not...

Watching clips from the Steve Jobs memorial at the Apple HQ, I was struck once again by how we have imputed messianic significance to him. For sure, he made my long distance running around the suburbs of Philadelphia less tedious by allowing me to carry the Stones, Zeppelin and Dire Straits...

Watching clips from the Steve Jobs memorial at the Apple HQ, I was struck once again by how we have imputed messianic significance to him. For sure, he made my long distance running around the suburbs of Philadelphia less tedious by allowing me to carry the Stones, Zeppelin and Dire Straits...