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Disconnect

I am—hopefully, finally—going to be graduating at the end of this year, and as graduation draws closer and closer I face the inevitable question more and more often: “So, what do you want to do afterward, career-wise?” Sometimes I manage to skirt around it; sometimes I throw out the safe old standby (“Oh, you know—teach”); […]

Language and the Reformation

I got the opportunity this weekend to hear Dr. Carl Trueman, professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Seminary, give a series of lectures on the history of the English Reformation. Among other things, he emphasized the central part language played: on the continent, but most particularly in England, the church reformations had […]