“But they knew about the beatings, the rages, the railing, the humiliation. Yet none of them acted to stop that behavior. They just seemed to turn off their consciences. What they would not do themselves, they permitted their pastor to do. Indeed, after charges were brought against Shifflett, he resigned from the church and took about a third… Read More »
Thomas Garrett – Founding Father of the Gospel Coalition? “Garrett is a figure straight from R. H. Tawney’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: he was part missionary and part entrepreneur. And it was in this double role that he arrived in Oxford on Christmas Eve 1527 as a sort of travelling salesman for radical reform. There he… Read More »
Here we are, midway through January of 2015. For varied reasons my pen has fallen silent for the last few months, but I am now amply motivated to write of some items which have caught my attention. Along with my silence in the blog world I have also not been active on Twitter. Today while looking into a… Read More »
