A Martyr’s Last Letter to His Mother
Among the Reformation martyrs was the author of the Belgic Confession, Guido de Brès. He served as a pastor in […]
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The Protests Which Divided Reformed Churches
We might think we’re the first ones in history to encounter questions about how Christians should respond to perceived or […]
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Reformed = Anti-Revolutionary
My Dad was a pilot in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and, as a boy, I was so proud of […]
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You Say You Want a Revolution?
It used to be that the left had a monopoly on talk of revolution. You could count on leftists to […]
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The First Mark and Mission
Of the Belgic Confession’s articles on the doctrine of the church, article 29 is probably the most well-known amongst Reformed […]
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Five Ways You’re Probably Not A Calvinist
What’s a Calvinist? That can be a tough question to answer. It’s fair to say there are Reformed people who […]
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De Brès, the Belgic Confession, and Persecution
Did you know the Belgic Confession is the only officially adopted Reformed confession written by a martyr? True, other confessions […]
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The Reformation and Doxology
Five hundred years! Today is the day we mark a half millennia since God brought Reformation to his church. Over […]
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The Reformation and Martyrdom
In parts of Europe, the Reformation was marked with the spilling of blood. In the first half of the sixteenth […]
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The Reformation of Purgatory
One of the most important Reformers in the Low Countries was Guido (or Guy) de Brès. Martyred in 1567, we […]
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The Reformation and the Apocrypha
Did you know that the first editions of the Belgic Confession included two proof-texts from the apocrypha? Did you know […]
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De Brès vs. Richardot: A Reformation Debate
If there’s one Reformation figure who deserves more attention, I would argue that it’s Guido de Brès. Since I wrote […]
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Laying On of Hands Revisited
A few years ago, I wrote a post about the Belgic Confession article 31 and what it used to say […]
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Women in Office = False Church?
It could happen later this year that the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands decide at their synod to officially allow […]
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