Valiant for Truth

There have recently been a number of Reformed converts to Roman Catholicism and Taylor Marshall is among their number.  Mr. Marshall and a number of other converts at www.calledtocommunion.com offered to pay for the book to be given to Reformed seminarians who wrote in.

Imagine yourself on a beautiful desert island. You've unplugged from the digital world. No cellphone, no Twitter, no Facebook, no radio, and no TV. With you on the island you have your Bible. In addition, you can only take with you five books. Which five books would you choose and why?

The use of the words “evangelical” or “evangelicalism” continues to be the source of no little consternation in conversations amongst professing Christians. In some corners, they have come to connote everything that is thought to be wrong with Christianity in the 21st century.

What I knew of Herman Bavinck prior to reading this volume came solely from his Reformed Dogmatics. Gleason’s work encompasses all aspects of Bavinck, as indicated in the subtitle.

Keep your eyes peeled (I know, as painful as that might be). There's a new book soon to be released later this summer: Westminster Seminary California--A New Old School, written by W. Robert Godfrey and D. G. Hart. This book has been in the works for a number of years and tells the history of the seminary. Recently there have been some who claim to know what the seminary is all about, but such purported "histories" reveal more about the critic than they do the seminary.