One of the advantages of living long enough is passing along stories. My grandparents lived with us until they died, telling stories that shaped me and my interest in history. Modern Reformation began in my living room, as a bulletin of sorts before it grew into an actual magazine. [...]
Modern Reformation magazine isn’t going away, but it is changing. That change is still in its early stages and primarily concerns our choice of media. We’re shifting from a print subscription periodical to a digital multimedia newsletter. Our website will be a bigger priority now. We’ll focus on publishing high-quality [...]
Every Advent, millions of Americans will at some point sit down and participate in a long-honored and nearly sacred ritual: watching The Christmas Story. This classic holiday film—no, myth—is chock-full of moments that depict what Christmas means [...]
I can still remember the staircase I was sitting on when I was “born again . . . again.” Like many who discovered the Reformation after growing up in broad evangelicalism, I loved Jesus and knew my Bible, but I had very little assurance of salvation, nor did I really know how the story of the Bible held together. [...]
Were one to judge by recent Protestant publications dedicated to the themes of catholicity and confessionalism, one could fairly conclude that the Anglo-American Protestant world is witnessing something of a “catholicity movement.” [...]
Just as the Protestant reformation sought to restore doctrine and worship practice in accord with Scripture, so too a modern reformation must do the same. For a modern reformation to fully flower, there must not just be a return to biblical doctrine, but also [...]
I thought I had almost finished writing my children’s book Church History when I discovered a brand-new world. As many had realized long before me, most books on the history of Christianity have focused on Europe and America, neglecting the rich account of God’s work in the rest of the world. [...]
As a teenager attending a theology conference, Mike Horton walked up to James Montgomery Boice, an influential pastor at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, and said, “Dr. Boice, I want to be a reformer like you.” That moment in the late ’70s [...]
