A couple of items. The Banner of Truth have just launched their new website . The US conference is also advertised . Actually involves a number of ministers you may never have heard of who minister in churches where they actually know the names of most, if not all, of the people in their...

It has been an excellent summer for books on the history of the Reformed and Presbyterian faith. John Halsey Wood and James Bratt have both offered fine treatments of Kuyper; D.G. Hart produced his long-awaited history of Calvinism; and now Bradley Longfield's Presbyterians and American Culture (...

In the late 90s, I served as an elder on session at Bon Accord Free Church of Scotland in Aberdeen, where Iver Martin was minister and the legendary Dr. Ian MacDonald served as session clerk. My sons were very young then and avid readers of the Free Church's children's magazine, The Instructor ...

I am grateful to the reader who drew my attention to the story over at Juicy Ecumenism concerning the presumably liberal vicar who yet found himself a poster boy for political incorrectness by asking two lesbians who the biological mother of a child he was asked to baptise actually was. The story...