And not only the Queen, but may the Lord extend salvation to the entirety of Great Britain. Toward that end, I covet your prayers for my journey to England this week in which I will visit the London School of Theology and All Souls Church. On Saturday, I am scheduled to visit Oxford to retrace the steps of Peter Martyr Vermigli and John Henry Newman, two Oxonians from church history whom I am studying in my doctoral thesis. I have already downloaded Thomas Cranmer’s last words which I hope to recite at Saint Mary’s Church (where Cranmer spoke them). You can follow the trip on Twitter @chriscastaldo.

Augustine on Justification (what you must know)
The most significant patristic source of the Protestant Reformation was Augustine of Hippo. In centuries preceding the sixteenth, interest in Augustine had flowered, spawning a