No, not the kid in the cartoon strip with the toy tiger, but the great theologian whose writings set the course of much of Protestant theology, and as a result, Western culture. I think John Calvin was a very smart guy who got a lot of stuff right, but some of the interpretations of his […]
There are a couple of colourful Calvinist characters who often find their way onto my mp3 player, both of whom have had articles about them in the New York Times. The first is Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church, Seattle. He’s the Top Gear of Christian preachers – blokeish, un-PC, and usually very entertaining. […]
I think this blog post by Doug Wilson is absolutely brilliant. As a writer, I find the analogy of God as storyteller one of the best ways of understanding how God can be in complete control, and at the same time we still have freedom and responsibility. The comparison breaks down if you push it […]
I’m currently reading Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. He writes in his introduction of 1559 that “it has been my purpose in this labour to prepare and instruct candidates in sacred theology for the reading of the divine Word, in order that they may be able both to have easy access to it and […]