“The Consistory is for fornicators, and I am no fornicator,” replied the Purse-Maker and former Anabaptist Jane Pignier to a direct question from Consistory member John Calvin in December, 1544 (1). Perhaps she was not, but the Consistory took note of her frequent association with Benoite Jacon, wife of Pierre Amyaux, who admitted adultery to [...]

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I once had the privilege of taking a seminar with Hughes Oliphant Old, and of all that he has written this is my favorite paraphraph. Consider it this week’s Lord’s Day meditation.
In our evangelistic zeal we are looking for programs that will attract people. We think we have to put honey on the lip [...]

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Wyman Richardson over at Communio Sanctorum recently posted Calvin Miller’s poem “My Easy Christ Has Left the Church” from Miller’s The Unfinished Soul.
I’m not sure what I think of it. Some of the indictments ring true, but to say that Christ has left the church? Read it for yourself: 
My easy Christ has left the church.
Who can say why?
Maybe [...]

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