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Cancel Culture at Regent College
I attended Regent College, a non-denominational graduate school in Vancouver, in the 1980s. The school is of some renown internationally in evangelical circles. J. I. Packer co-supervised my thesis...
Pope Francis and the Tridentine Mass
Traditionis Custodes, Pope Francis’s motu proprio “on the use of the Roman Liturgy prior to the Reform of 1970,” appears at first glance to be business as usual in...
The History of Canada’s Residential Schools
Over the past fortnight, some dozen churches in Canada, many serving indigenous people, were torched. A dozen more, most in non-indigenous contexts, were vandalized. “Burn it all down,” tweeted...
A Struggle for Public Worship in Canada
Aylmer, Ontario, is a town of some 7500 people on the north shore of Lake Erie. It was founded in 1817 by a settler from New York State named...
The Secret of the Saeculum
The Music of Providence In the tenth book of The City of God, Augustine reminds his readers that he is not arguing either with those who imagine there is...
Easter Without Mass?
Easter without Mass? Of course not! Mass will be said, and my family and I will prayerfully hear it said. But though we are not under sentence of excommunication,...
Harrowing Hart on Hell
That All Shall Be Saved:Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvationby david bentley hart yale, 232 pages, $26 David Bentley Hart, familiar to readers of these pages as an intellectual pugilist...
Discernment of Situation
Is the pope Catholic?” used to be an answer, not a question. Alas, it has become a question; or rather it has become five questions, in the form of...
Public Funerals for Mob Leaders?
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“Come up here”: A few remarks in response to Stephen Webb’s misreading of Ascension Theology
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T. F. Torrance and the Latin Heresy
Most noted for his work at the intersection of theology and science, for which he was feted in 1978 with the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, and as...
The Yoke of Neutrality
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The Other Shoe
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Quelling the Terrors of a False Religion
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Chief Rabbi Bernheim’s Letter
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