The Subtle Lure of Liberalism by Timothy George

FROM TABLETALK | April 1992

It has been a long time since I met an authentic, bold-faced liberal, one willing to claim that one word as a badge of identity. Many evangelical Christians believe, of course, that such creatures did, in fact, once exist. In …Read More

Heresy of the Free Spirit by Kevin DeYoung

FROM TABLETALK | March 2011

Marguerite Porete was a French mystic born in the thirteenth century. She was part of the Beguines, a voluntary, informal, semi-monastic community not unlike the new monasticism popping up in some urban centers. Marguerite, though unknown to almost all contemporary …Read More

A Supernatural Faith by R.C. Sproul

FROM TABLETALK | July 2007

“The God hypothesis is no longer necessary to explain the origin of the universe or the development of human life.” This assertion was at the very heart of the movement that took place in the eighteenth century that we call …Read More

To Be Deep in History by Keith Mathison

FROM TABLETALK | September 2010

The nineteenth century witnessed the conversions of two prominent Anglican clergymen to Roman Catholicism. Both men would ultimately become cardinals in the Roman Church, and both men would profoundly influence Roman Catholic theology. The first was John Henry Newman (1801 …Read More

Pilgrims Who Make No Progress by Gene Edward Veith

FROM TABLETALK | January 2006

To describe life as a journey is such a perfect metaphor that writers in every age return to it again and again. Western culture is full of pilgrims, headed in different directions, to different destinations. Before John Bunyan’s Pilgrim …Read More

The High Cost of Ambivalence by Dan Dumas

FROM TABLETALK | July 2012

Walking away from gospel orthodoxy or disconnecting from the stream of church history should strike terror in our hearts. But because of personal compromise, far too many believers are found “walking in the counsel of the wicked, standing in the …Read More

Calvin as a Controversialist by Cornelius Van Til

Calvin’s activity as a controversialist began with his “sudden conversion” to the Protestant faith. To become a Protestant was, for Calvin as well as for Luther, to become an Augustinian who tested Augustine’s teaching by Scripture. All controversies …Read More

The National Denier: Fiction Stranger than the Truth! by S.M. Baugh

FROM TABLETALK | April 2001

It is strange, is it not, that perfectly rational, even brilliant people should believe the most untenable of fables but disbelieve the most believable of historical events? No, it is beyond strange: it is downright tragic, because to deny this …Read More

Bubble Gum and the Trinity by Douglas Wilson

FROM TABLETALK | April 1998

I recently told a class of tenth-graders that what our culture needed was a return to Trinitarian bubble-gum commercials. They were a little nonplussed, and so I hastened to explain that as individuals with one set of ultimate commitments, we …Read More

The Temptation of Idolatry by Robert Barnes

FROM TABLETALK | April 1998

The temptation to pursue a new way of salvation, a new path down the road to righteousness, is an eternal struggle. The Puritans experienced it and warned us of the vanity and shear arrogance of creating our own custom-fit cult …Read More

“If I Should Die Before I Wake …” by Harold Brown

FROM TABLETALK | April 2000

WHAT HAPPENS TO US AT DEATH? We know what happens to the body, but what happens to the soul? The materialist’s answer is simple: There is no such thing as a soul, so there is no hope of eternal …Read More

The Son Rising in the East by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | August 2012

The early church faced at least two distinct and competing enemies. While Jesus walked the earth and after, the great challenge to the kingdom of God was found both in the Roman Empire and in Judaism. An armed force that …Read More

The Rise of the Papacy by David Wells

FROM TABLETALK | August 2005

There are one billion Roman Catholics worldwide, one billion people who are subject to the Pope’s authority. How, one might ask, did all of this happen? The answer, I believe, is far more complex and untidy than Catholics have …Read More

A Rose Is a Rose by R.C. Sproul

FROM TABLETALK | April 1998

A rose is a rose is a rose. This dictum reinforces the adage that a rose by any other name is still a rose. The idea is that the essence of the rose is not conditioned by what name is …Read More

“The Greatest of All Protestant Heresies”? by Sinclair Ferguson

FROM TABLETALK | August 2004

Let us begin with a church history exam question. Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621) was a figure not to be taken lightly. He was Pope Clement VIII’s personal theologian and one of the most able figures in the Counter-Reformation …Read More