How Thomas Cranmer Helped Shape Particular Baptist Piety

As a Calvinistic Baptist I owe a significant debt to early Anglicanism. My seventeenth-century forebears learned much of their Reformed theology from Reformed ministers in the Church of England and it was in the heart of that body that they were nurtured on the spirituality of the Reformation. And in the earliest days of that state Church no figure exercised as great an influence as Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), the first Reformed Archbishop of Canterbury.[1] Kenneth Brownell, an American who is pastoring in London, England, has argued that Thomas Cranmer’s influence on the English-speaking Protestant world has been greater than any...

Michael A. G. Haykin

The Young Martyr of St. Lucy’s Day

Lauren Ducommun

What Did Church Membership Classes Look Like in the First Century?

Wyatt Graham

Robert Rundle, the First Protestant Missionary in the Canadian Prairies

Clint Humfrey

13 Marks of Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s Preaching according to J.I. Packer

Christopher A. Hutchinson

What Happened at the Council of Nicaea?

Wes Huff

It’s a common accusation, “the books of the Bible were chosen at the Council of Nicaea.” I have read it in books and internet forums as well as heard it from laypeople and academics. It is a line that has been repeated over and over, having taken on a life of its own due to the popularity of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and the explosion of promulgation due to the internet. One of the main characters in the Da Vinci Code, Leigh Teabing, states at one point that, “Constantine commissioned and financed a new Bible, which omitted those...

What Happened at the Council of Nicaea?

Wes Huff

On Anselm’s Pursuit of Joy

Wyatt Graham

Unknown author / Public domain Gavin Ortlund is the pastor of First Baptist Church in Ojai, California. He is also the author of an academic commentary on Anselm of Canterbury’s (1033–1109 AD) Proslogion. He has also authored a number of other works such as Finding the Right Hills to Die On and Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals. In short, Ortlund models something that Christians have done since the very beginning: a pastoral pursuit of theological thinking for the sake of the church. Not every pastor has the capacity or opportunity to pursue scholarly writing such as is the case with Anselm’s...

On Anselm’s Pursuit of Joy

Wyatt Graham

Reflecting on Martin Luther’s Thoughts on Ministry during a Plague

Sarah Roberts

Stephencdickson / CC BY-SA High fever. Vomiting. Headaches. Intolerance to light. Bleeding from the nose. Abdominal pain. Sleeplessness. Diarrhea. Bruise-like blotches. Delirium. Coughing up blood. Difficult breathing. These are a few of the problematic symptoms that show when an individual was struck with the Black Death. There are records that confirm “between 1347 and 1352, it is estimated that the Black Death killed one third of the population of Europe … 50 million people” (Sarah Martin, Black Death [2007], 111). That would mean all the individuals who perished could hold hands and wrap around the entire earth almost two times....

Reflecting on Martin Luther’s Thoughts on Ministry during a Plague

Sarah Roberts

John Gilmour: A Canadian Baptist Every Christian Could Learn From

David Mann

It is difficult to quantify the impact that the late Rev. John Gilmour has had on the Christian faith in Canada, specifically in Baptist churches. Born in Ayr, Scotland in 1792, despite his academic brilliance, Gilmour opted out of his formal education to become a marine merchant at the young age of nine. On one particular trip at Sea, Gilmour’s ship never returned home. It was at the time of the Napoleonic wars, and the French had captured him and his crew. During his time in prison, Gilmour spent ample time reading and studying. He mastered the French language and...