I love The Letters of Samuel Rutherford . I think they should be far better known than they are. In fact, I'd say The Letters of Samuel ...

I. I'm going to make a few observations about John Bunyan's  Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.  It reflects a classic contra...

In my experience, there are roughly three objections to "pictures of Jesus". One invokes the 2nd Commandment. That's an impor...

In the year of his death, Richard Baxter, a preeminent Puritan, published  The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits . As he explains: Wh...

Puritan cultural warrior:

Here's an interesting comparison: On the one hand, Puritans say it's wrong to make images of Jesus because (among other reasons...

Over on Facebook , in response to my recent blog article on John Owen, “Political Defeat was the Condition of Cultural Achievement” , an old...

I've noticed some critics of Ash Wednesday and Lent. I'll make a few quick points: i) They seem to equate Ash Wednesday and Le...

First astronaut Yuri Gagarin: “The Earth is blue [...] How wonderful. It is amazing.” “Humans are meant for creation; creation is our ho...

" Sweet Dropper: Richard Sibbes and Conforming Puritanism " by Evan May.

Not long ago I listened to a lecture series by J.I. Packer (through RTS) entitled the “ The English Puritans ”. Packer spent a great deal o...

A Quest for Godliness , J.I. Packer The puritans have taught me to see and feel the transitoriness of this life, to think of it with all i...