I ran across a wonderful quote from Plato: "The unrighteous and vicious are always to be pitied in any case; and one can afford to forg...

I’ve just been “tagged” by David at The Reformed Pastor to provide “six unimportant facts/quirks/habits about myself.” Harumph! As if there...

It's been a while since I did this. I figured I'd better show that I've still got some Calvinist "street-cred" since I...

After reading Jim Berkley's post on the bedside manner of John Calvin , I came across this post that gave the following video clip: It...

CAVEAT: I'm not PCUSA anymore, so this is tongue-in-cheek. (I don't have the class that Will Spotts shows in just staying out of it...

A little something nice I will pass along to you all, that was sent to me from the letters to the editor section of a local newspaper in Avo...

For those of a more historical bent, read this entertaining history on Lupercalia which was celebrated in the middle of the month , so it w...

Just in case you had any doubt as to what the Confession of 1967 ultimately meant to do (i.e., undermine the Westminster Confession of Fai...

I should probably talk about something relatively safe, like global warming, gay adoption, or dancing for peace. But, spurred on by my buddy...

A lovely setting of Psalm 110 . Tune: Aurelia — “The Church’s One Foundation” vv. 1-3 “Sit by Me at My right hand,” the Lord says to my L...

I came across this little gem on the Prayer Book Society's website . It so comported with EVERY SINGLE SERMON I heard while in seminary ...

Sorry about missing this. The PCUSA designated January 20th as a day to focus on Race Relations . Fortunately, many PCUSA churche s were fo...

There are predictable reactions when people find out we homeschool our kids. So, when I ran across this rant in Secular Homeschooling Magazi...

San Francisco Presbytery has given us the final outworking of the PUP report . If you have not read Ms. Larges' own statement, do so he...

What's the Tarkin Doctrine ? Unless you're a Star Wars geek, you probably don't catch the overtures. But you can make sense of i...

The Layman reports that Bel Air Presbyterian Church failed in attaining a stay for a same-sex blessing that will occur this Sunday at neig...

I posted this on livejournal privately about 16 months ago. It was right before I started blogging - right before the committee that oversee...

Over at Evangelical Outpost , they've posted an academic paper showing that vampires can't be real because they would have destroyed...

Back in November, I received a letter from the Presbytery Committee that oversees my candidacy for ordination: Complete a unit of CPE (and ...

Should old Aquinas be forgot and never brought to mind? Should old Aquinas be forgot in these days of Wittgens...