The question “is there a pastor shortage?” is likely to elicit an emotional response. It is much like the question, “should teachers get paid more?” No doubt, many people, without research or reason would immediately answer “yes” to each of these questions. But understanding is superior to emotion, and we ought to have reasons for
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Cornelius Van Til, Letters from America, edited by Daniel Ragusa, was published in 2025, but I just heard about it now, having been given a copy. The subtitle of the book is “A Dutch Reformed Perspective for Orthodoxy in American Presbyterianism (1935-1940).” This subject and era of church history is of great interest to me,
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I saw a stat recently that said there are 35,000 Roman Catholic priests in America. I am quite astounded by how small that number is. I’m not astounded that the number has declined over the decades; that fact I’m well aware of. But I am astounded at how small that number is. For comparison, there
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A sad story of a woman dying and being buried in a lone grave on Meeker’s Island is told in a poem of Peter Lott in his book, “Unionville Farmer Poet.” JUST A LONE GRAVE On An Island in the Drowned Lands. About in the year 1867, a family by the name of Carr near
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Thanks to the Sussex County Library recently providing public access to local newspaper archives, I have been able to add two names to the total of known burials in the abandoned Meeker Cemetery, also known as the Christie School Burying Grounds, in Wantage NJ. Previously known gravestones are: Jeptha Meeker dis March 21st 1812 aged
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1. The Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli, 7/10. 2. Look at the Sky and tell the weather, by Eric Sloane, 10/10 3. The Genesis Account, by Jonathan Sarfati, 10/10 4. Shepherds for Sale, by Megan Basham, 8/10 5. The Tech-Wise Family, by Andy Crouch, 8/10 6. Going to Church in Medieval England, by Nicholas
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All Truth is God’s Truth by Arthur F. Holmes, Eerdman’s Publishing, 1977, 145 pp. “All Truth is God’s Truth” is not only the title of this book, but a popular phrase among many Christian apologists. The phrase sounds good in and of itself but leaves big questions of epistemology unanswered and even risks falling
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1955 was a notable year for Francis Schaeffer and for the Bible Presbyterian Church. It was the year in which Schaeffer left the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (IBPFM) to become an independent missionary and it was the last year Bible Presbyterian Church (BPC) held together before a major split. Schaeffer’s departure from
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On vacation the last two Sundays in Upstate New York, I searched for Reformed or Presbyterian Churches to attend with my family. This search shows the rough situation the state is in. Consider this map of United Reformed Churches. There are a few heading towards populous NYC, and some in Ontario. But really none in
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I spent a few days on vacation at a Pastor’s Retreat in rural New York where I came upon some history of a church that once existed near the place. Being on White Church Rd., and in a small community called White Church, NY, I asked my host “Where is the White Church?” They
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There has long been two peaks in the demographics of thruhikers on Appalachian Trail; they are either 22 years of age or 62; they are either just out of college or just retired. But recently I’ve noticed a major trend that really has surprised me. A new large demographic of hikers is men age 35-45
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