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“The child of everlasting joy”: A breviate of Reformation spirituality in the life and thought of Hugh Latimer. Part II
“Where the word of God is truly preached, there is persecution”
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Michael A.G. Azad Haykin
“The child of everlasting joy”: A breviate of Reformation spirituality in the life and thought of Hugh Latimer. Part I
A paper that I gave for “Reviving the Church: Learning from the Spirituality of the Reformation,” a Reformed House of Studies conference at Wycliffe…
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A prayer of Spurgeon for the salvation of sinners
This prayer from CH Spurgeon came at the close of a letter of Geoffrey Thomas that he sent today:
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“Of the first importance to mankind”: Jane Austen on the Anglican pastorate[1]
In approaching the novels and writings of Jane Austen, it is absolutely vital to remember that she belongs to the “long eighteenth century” that…
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Reading church history
Read church history at your peril, for it may well change your life (oh yes, for the good of Christ’s kingdom).
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May 2025

Coming soon in "Monographs in Baptist History"
Historia ecclesiastica: e-history with a Christian dye is a reader-supported publication.
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Isaac Watts' hymns and the closure of the Puritan era
Puritanism and Evangelicalism are not identical movements.
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An excellent reflection from Paul Coventry, pastor of Greenock Baptist Church
The reflection below before the Scottish Parliament (very much worth the four minutes to watch) by Paul Coventry of Greenock Baptist Church is superb.
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Paradoxes of World War II
The Second World War was unique and paradoxical.
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A key lesson from the culture wars of the 17th and 18th centuries
History, it has been rightly said, does not repeat itself, but there are “rhymes” and patterns.
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CH Spurgeon defusing controversy on the communion question
Above: the library in Spurgeon’s Pastor’s College.
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Light from the Word: a new publication with Courier Press
Also due out this summer.Historia ecclesiastica: e-history with a Christian dye is a reader-supported publication.
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