Dr. Mark Jones has written this post at Reformation 21 about the proper historical limits of “Puritanism.” He argues that Jonathan Edwards lived far too late for the term to be applied to him in any historically meaningful way. It is debatable when exactly the Puritan movement came to an end, but its terminus ad […]
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What Is the Doctrine of “Republication?”
July 19, 2014 
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Over at Old Life, D.G. Hart has written this piece on the recently published book Merit and Moses by Andrew Elam, Robert Van Kooten, and Randall Bergquist (Wipf & Stock, 2014). As the subtitle indicates, the book is a critique of a relatively obscure and ambiguous doctrine known as “republication.” This doctrine has been around in some form or […]
Continue reading Erskine Board Calls Paul Kooistra as President.
July 18, 2014 0 Comments
According to this latest post at The Aquila Report, Erskine College’s board of trustees has elected Paul Kooistra as the school’s next president. Dr. Kooistra formerly served as president of Covenant Theological Seminary and president of Mission to the World. Erskine College belongs to the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, a small, mostly rural conservative Presbyterian denomination. They […]
Continue reading Apologetics and the Role of Plausibility Structures
July 18, 2014 0 Comments
In this post on The Gospel Coalition, Joe Carter hits the nail on the head. Why is it that some people can be persuaded by arguments for God’s existence, while others will look at you as if you’re trying to prove the existence of Santa Claus? According to Carter, it all has to do with a […]
Continue reading Top 10 Posts of the Week (7/12/14 – 7/18/14)
July 18, 2014 0 Comments
This is the beginning of a new series, where we list and summarize the top 10 posts (in no particular order) we’ve found across the blogosphere for the week. If you find a blog post that you consider to be especially noteworthy, send it to us and we may include it on our list! Carl […]
Continue reading A Children’s Crusade?
July 18, 2014 3 Comments
Harry Monroe, Jr., a licentiate of North Texas Presbytery (PCA), has posted this piece on the current influx of unaccompanied children from Central America into the U.S. He is understandably cautious about the church allying itself to particular causes where Scripture is not explicit, but he encourages individual believers to arrive at well-informed positions rather […]
Continue reading Is There Enough Time for Humans to have Evolved from Apes?
July 17, 2014 0 Comments
In this Youtube video, Dr. Ann Gauger of the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think-tank for Intelligent Design, talks about the evolutionary time frames needed to get from an ape to a human. Spoiler: there isn’t nearly enough time. Current estimates indicate that it takes about 6 million years for a single DNA mutation to become fixed within […]
Continue reading Sanctification and the Heidelberg Catechism, Part One
July 14, 2014 2 Comments
Over at Reformation 21, Jon Payne has written this post on the subject of sanctification, as it is described in the Heidelberg Catechism (HC). This document, written primarily by Zacharius Ursinus in 1563, is one of the Three Forms of Unity, which together serve as the Continental Reformed counterpart to the British Westminster Standards. Some […]
Continue readingDoes Evolution Explain Religious Beliefs?
July 10, 2014 2 Comments
I just finished reading this interview at The Stone, where Gary Cutting talks with philosopher Dr. Michael Ruse about atheism, evolution, and religious belief. I must admit, I found Ruse’s comments to be surprisingly refreshing. Even though he’s a committed atheist, he exhibits none of the scorn or sarcasm of the Richard Dawkins-types (in fact, he expresses […]
Continue readingThe “Evangelicals” Who Are Not Evangelicals
July 9, 2014 1 Comment
Over at The Anxious Bench, Thomas Kidd has written this post discussing four groups of people who are commonly—and erroneously—labeled “evangelical.” Theological liberals. Often these folks come out of mainline Protestant denominations, but many are now associated with the emergent church movement. Reformed/confessionalist Christians (like myself). It might surprise some readers to learn that this […]
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