The annual Dutch Haamstede Conference, held in Garderen, which draws some 160 pastors, evangelists and teachers has become a spiritual home for me and a highlight of each year. The conferences I occasionally visit in Scandinavia, Germany, North America and England are edifying and instructive, but there is just nothing to compare with the deep spirituality, warm fellowship, eager optimism and high academic standard found …
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The 2007 Protestant Reformation Conference: August 28-30
The PRS met once again at Regents Park College, Oxford for their annual conference. The college is situated centrally in what must be one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. The staff made all their guests most comfortable and the fellowship was deep and sweet indeed. As usual at such a conference, the conversations which took place quite equalled the …
John Overall not an Arminian
Dec 27
… the earlier reign of James.
Overall deserves to be remembered for his part in the Hampton Court Conference, whose 40oth anniversary we are remembering this year, and for his part in the production of the King James’ Bible. Overall is often made to wear the dunce’s cap in the Arminian Corner but his history suggests that this picture needs to be corrected. He followed Alexander Nowell as Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge in 1596. Nowell was a thorough-going …
Cromwell Queried
Aug 21
… breath in hope’ after Cromwell’s death were “the profligates who peopled Charles II’s court.” It has slipped his notice that the sources on which Dr. Urwick bases his mini-biography were those very people who were against the Rebellion and who invited Charles II back to England. These included some of Britain’s greatest Puritans. Howe, himself, was very popular in Court circles and the close friend of high nobles, bishops and archbishops.
Mr. Gellion’s letter ends …
… this is historically false. The Salem Witch Trials were conducted by an Oyer and Terminer Crown Court holding the legal powers of the day and an English lawyer, Mr Newton was present to act as King’s attorney. Dalton’s Justice, which was the accepted legal guide, was used as a basis for examining both the accusers and the accused. The English law of the day was quite complicated in its relation to witchcraft. Professing to be a witch was not ipso facto a crime. If witches …
Letter on Scientology
Sep 15
… such as the WAZ have covered the issue at length and over many weeks. Scientology has lost several court cases in Germany but in recent times has won others through very well-paid legal advisers and lawyers. Thus Bosbach warned that we cannot combat Scientology with head-over-heels tactics as Scientology will use every single loop-hole of the legal system to avoid defeat. Remember, we are talking about an extremely rich and powerful organisation which has world conquest as its aim. Scientology …
The Dumbing Down of Doctrine
Aug 17
… of a prayer and the signing of a decision card. On one occasion, on attending a Founders Journal conference, I heard in criticism that many hundreds of youngsters had been so thrilled by this supposed godly power that they had willingly signed the necessary declaration of conversion. The male Barbie dolls and hormone-eaters left the area and not one of these youngsters came back to the church. They had identified Christianity with muscle power and wanted to be supermen rather than strong in …
Puritan Papers
Aug 18
Puritan Papers Volume I, 1956-59: A Review Article
A Conference downgraded
Puritan Papers brought back memories of my early years in England as a new born Christian and the help which I received from the teaching of the Puritan Conference up to 1964 and my continued interest during my later sojourn in Sweden and Germany. When the Puritan Conference ended in 1970, my interest waned. The Westminster Conference became more narrow in …
This year’s Siegwinden Conference (Germany), held from 24th-26th February, experienced a great drop in the standards of teaching which it has come to appreciate over the years. The main speaker, Philip Eveson, a Bible College Principal and reputed to be a Reformed man, proved a wolf in sheep’s clothing and openly declared himself to be a contender against the reformed faith. Radically denying the experimental, …
