After nearly three years blogging at Historia ecclesiastica, the blog is moving to a new site at The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies (www.andrewfullercenter.org ). I am thrilled about this site and the possibilities it opens it. I am hoping that I can have everything related to my writing under this one roof as it were or at least referenced under this one roof. Inevitably there will be a number of changes—many for the better, a few losses. The most noteworthy of the latter will be that the links will alter to some degree, but I think the positives will far more than outweigh ... [read more]

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It is often not during a visit to another clime or land that one realizes the impact of the visit or sojourn. It was so for me last month when I visited Wales. The last time I had been in Wales was in 1992 when I drove to Aberystwyth from Oxford to do research at the National Library of Wales. I spent three or four glorious days in that town, studying by day in the Library and by night walking the promenade along the beach and looking wistfully across the Irish Sea to my forebears’ native land of Ireland. It was too long to have not been back to Wales! No wistful longing for Ireland on th... [read more]

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Would you work for God in a specific cause? Then, there must be what John Owen, that immortal Puritan, called a “clear shining from God”: “Clear shining from God must be at the bottom of deep labouring with God.”[1] [1] Cited Peter Barraclough, John Owen (1616-1683) (London: Independent Press Ltd., 1961), 6.

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In a statement reeking with hubris, Henry Morgentaler has said that he believes he deserves the Order of Canada given to him earlier this month and that, in part it appears, because abortion has become “one of the safest surgical techniques.” The utter irony of this statement seems to have been lost on the man and the media that reported this remark [Morgentaler: I ‘Deserve’ Order of Canada ].

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I am a Canadian. My parents brought me here from the United Kingdom when I was twelve in 1965. I found it difficult at first, but I have come to love this nation—her topography and human archaeology, her customs and culture—and I am proud to describe myself as a Canadian. I love my roots in [...]

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How fragile urban steel and stone The fabrics that shore up city and clan If water, essence of all wealth, dry up: If these reservoirs of liquid Turn to moisture and air Or be spilled to soak into earthen soil— Where then our civic strength and pride? But O! what greater loss if soul Be of supernal Sea deprived, If heaven’s clouds pass by Without drop or shower— O! for thunder and the light, The storm and those drenching rains Pantycelyn and Griffiths knew, And that kept them thirsting for more. Michael A.G. Haykin©2008.

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I got home to Dundas on this Monday past after two weeks in England and Wales (mostly the latter). I wish to thank all who prayed for me. Any blessing I knew is intimately related to those prayers.

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Here is an excellent post on modesty by CJ Mahaney: Modesty: A Word to Fathers (pt. 5).  HT: Tim Kerr.

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Cats like my Chai Like tickles and petting Not theology-vetting Nor pundits retting The Bible loose From its mooring. But then— His theology is better Than Bultmann’s Or Hermann’s, Those radical Germans, For his Maker he “knows.”  Michael A.G. Haykin©2008.

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A recent collection of essays on the various details of Baptist polity deserves a wide reading. It is Thomas White, Jason B. Duesing, and Malcolm Yarnell, III, eds., Restoring Integrity in Baptist Churches (Kregel, 2008). I have found it a gold-mine of informed reflection on such things as the meaning and mode of baptism, the nature of the Lord’s Table, the necessity of a regenerate church membership, and the vital importance of church discipline. And believe it or not, what I found as important as the content of the articles were the riches in the footnotes. My hearty commendation of th... [read more]

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