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Novelty communion

Posted by: Ros on: September 24, 2009

Marc Lloyd posts some excerpts from Keith Mathison about the historic novelty of symbolic memorialism.

Temple and worship

Posted by: Ros on: May 23, 2008

Idly thumbing through my mother’s copy of the Church Times while waiting for some bread to defrost, I happened to notice this week’s book reviews. Lester Grabbe’s latest book on the history of ancient Israel looks to be a fairly standard historical study with not much new to offer. But it was the second volume [...]

Effectual baptism

Posted by: Ros on: January 25, 2008

There’s a very helpful discussion going on at Best of Both Worlds about the effect or otherwise of baptism, infant or otherwise. Do make sure you read all the comments. I enjoyed this contribution from Tapani Simojoki There once was a man who said, “No! This physical stuff’s a no-no. It’s spirit that flies Right [...]

Jokes about sacraments

Posted by: Ros on: January 17, 2008

Somebody arrived at my blog today having searched for ‘jokes about sacraments’.  I don’t think I know any, but perhaps some of my readers could help this anonymous person out?

(Not) thinking about the sacraments

Posted by: Ros on: August 24, 2007

Over the last couple of years I’ve met a small handful of people who are unbaptised believers and regularly receive the supper. When I express shock and horror at this, they seem surprised. Why should this be a problem? Well, readers, over to you. How would you answer that?

God’s knitting needles

Posted by: Ros on: August 20, 2007

Who could resist a post with this title? Not me, certainly. Nothing to do with wool or yarn, everything to do with the body of Christ. Here, at Doug Wilson’s wonderfully titled ‘Blog and Mablog.’


Conversational theology:

the art of learning deep truths about God and man in the company of friends, whilst drinking tea and eating cake.

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