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Presbyterian Ecumenism Starts Small

It’s a commonplace to point to the “division” among Protestants and especially Reformed and Presbyterians. Some of this is true, and some of it, I believe, comes from a mistaken understanding of what constitutes division and proper unity. Still, we shouldn’t miss the fact that things have gotten better, much better in fact, over the […]

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No Calvinism in Scotland?

Donald Macleod gives us a rather interesting new take on the no true Scotsman here. He argues that, contrary to an overwhelming number of popular assumptions, Scotland is not and has never been a “Calvinistic” culture. There are some good points to consider, of course, chiefly the fact that ideas, however powerful and popular, rarely […]