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Watch this SPACE:
In the next few days Ref21 is undergoing a complete transformation. In addition to a brand new design four new bloggers will appear: Iain D, Campbell, Stephen (Steve) Nichols, Sean Lucas and Thabiti Anyabwile. Check back regularly over the next week and find out more (Editor).
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Should Rodney be banned (or worse??)?7/24/2007
In light of the unusually large number of complaints (i.e., two hundred and twenty-seven, though all from the same email address – large Catholic family, we’re guessing) about Rodney Trotter's offensive blogging, we’ve asked Robert Plant (no, not the legendary lead singer of Led Zeppelin but Cabbie no. 239087 with Coda Cabs, West Bromwich) to comment on the use of satire and irony to provoke people to think. Robert, or should I call you `Mr Plant, sir’: what do you think? Should Rodney be fired, along with other non-referential linguistic constructs on Ref21? And irony and satire? For saints or for sinners?
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Vlad the Taxi Driver on Orthodoxy7/9/2007
I have remained silent for too long. Trueman's reactionary commendation of Bob Letham on Orthodoxy cannot go without response, so I've invited one of Transylvania's leading theologians to respond: Vlad Dracul -- no, not the medieval scourge of the Carpathian mountains who inspired Bram Stoker's bloodsucking Gothic anti-hero, but Driver no. 776452 of Impaler Cars, Oradea. Vlad, I know you have strong feelings about Eastern Orthodoxy. Please feel free to share them with Ref21 blog readers:
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Mark Bolan Speaks: Fire Trueman NOW!!5/11/2007
In light of the deeply offensive emails posted by our fellow blogger, Carl Trueman, over the last week, where he made such outrageous, extreme, heretical and gratuitously poisonous claims as `You know, maybe not all women should feel they have to homeschool' and `Hey, it's kind of helpful on occasion to read the early church fathers,' the officers at ACE have asked leading Reformed taxi driver, Mark Bolan of Ride a White Swan Cabs, Walthamstow (that's Mark with a `k' not `c' -- thus clearly not the late lead singer of 70s glamrock sensations, T-Rex) to give his opinion on what should be done to stop this:
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Not another book on the Reformation!3/8/2007
Goodness me! Steve Nichols has produced yet another book on the Reformation: The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World (Crossway). Come on people, get with the program -- the kids of today don't want to hear about grace, Christ, scripture, salvation, Christian freedom, service and self-sacrifice for God and for neighbour, and the joys of justification by faith. Can't we just draw a line under all that stuff and move one??? I mean, the kids of today want to know about useful and relevant stuff like Starbucks, iPods, Christian body-piercing, and the lasting influence of Kurt Cobain in a post-literary world (as explained in my latest book, Starbucks, iPods, Christian Body-Piercing and the Lasting Influence of Kurt Cobain in a Post-Literary World, available from Baudrillard-Jones Press, with foreword by Rev Dave Trendy (incidentally, this week's Christianity Today poll indicates that Dave is now one of the 47 most important Christians since the beginning of time, up from 50 last week). I mean, come on , Steven, Luther's irrelevant -- a dead white male who never made a single decent album. How different to Cobain can you get?
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A view from the cab2/6/2007
In line with recent practice, we have asked a celebrity cab driver to speak on an issue of the hour. This week: Should Derek Thomas be sacked for not bothering to change the blog question more than once a year? We are pleased to have the opinion of Reg Presley -- no, not the lead singer of sixties rock sensations, The Troggs, but Driver no. 77257 with Wild Thing Cabs, Tooting. Reg, thanks for giving us your time: what do you think of Derek Thomas's delinquency on the blog question?
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Three new books1/29/2007
The book review section of Reformed Man Today lists the following three must reads for all cutting-edge confessional types out there:
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The Conversion of Del-Boy -- a Clarification1/26/2007
In a recent post, taxi driver Keith Moon was quoted as saying that entertainer and post-Wittgensteinian linguistic philosopher, Charo, claimed in the back of his cab that Del-Boy was converted at a Stryper concert. It has since emerged that this has been inaccurately reported elsewhere as Del-Boy having been converted at a stripper concert. Investigations have revealed that this inaccurate report was, in fact, put around by Dr Thomas himself in order to avoid the deep shame and disgrace which his presence at a Christian Hair Rock event might cause to his close family and friends.
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An oldie but goodie1/10/2007
Wandering in a second-hand bookshop the other day (won't say it was in a state of ancient disrepair, but the graffitti in the rest room read, variously, `Squeaky Fromme is Innocent', `Rousas Rushdoony is my Homeboy' and `Tex Ritter Taught Me to Yodel') I caught sight of an old classice: P T Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind. This is nearly a hundred years old but a classic of its kind (one of the things the pupils of Ritschl did well was write on preaching.....). Any pastor out there who has lost sight of the romance and power of the preached word should sell all his has to get a copy of this. I know PTF's often called a Barthian before Barth, but I wonder if someone at the Alliance might not consider a cheap reprint as a service to the church? Don't forget -- it was reading PTF's The Cruciality of the Cross which changed Martyn Lloyd Jones from a preacher of regeneration to a preacher of Christ.
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You heard it here first8/11/2006
Just received the two latest tracts by Jack Chick. Relevant, sensitive, and scrupulously accurate as always, these are on Islam. Two things are worthy of note: first, the wonderfully ethnically sensitive portrayal of the physiognomy of Arabs. Mmmm, where have I seen pics like this before? Oohh, yes, I remember -- some ten years ago when I was researching a paper on Luther and the Jews and spent the day in Cambridge University Library looking at German propaganda cartoons about the Jews from the 1930s and 40s. Who says the church can't learn from Goebbels?
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