What’s Happening in Poland

Jan Łaski (1499 - 1560) When you think of European Reformers of the church, which names spring to mind? Perhaps Huss, Luther, Calvin, or Bullinger — but likely not Łaski. Although Jan Łaski's influence extended beyond his native country of Poland and influenced the...

By God's grace, Tolle Lege's translations of The Westminster Confession of Faith and Louis Berkhof's Summary of Christian Doctrine are funded and in process! Next up, we're raising funds to:  translate The Art of Prophesying, a treatise...

In late November the Tolle Lege team began packing up the Mińska Street study center for our move to a new location on the campus of The College of Theology and Social Sciences in Warsaw (WSTS). Although the former location served its purpose well, this move has...

Over 100 people from 5+ countries attended the Puritans Conference co-hosted online on November 28 by Tolle Lege and WSTS. The speakers dealt with the life and works of William Perkins, Jonathan Edwards, John Bunyan, and Samuel Davies. Although the original plan was...

John Calvin's Institutes have been published for the first time in Polish, by our friends at HORN Publishing! On September 24 Tolle Lege hosted a well-attended book launch during which the project manager and translators from...

TLI has just published J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism in Polish! Machen wrote his classic defense of Christian orthodoxy in 1923 to counter rising theological liberalism. But given the intensity and durability of the unorthodox zeitgeist, Christianity...

by Dr. Dariusz M Bryćko (published initially on Sept. 17, 2012 on Reformation 21). Reaching Poland is critical to mission work in both western and eastern Europe. Yet Reformed Christians have ignored this reality for years and have neglected to send missionaries to...

In October Tolle Lege welcomed a group of adults and children from a Lutheran school in Estonia. While in Warsaw on a class trip they wanted to learn about Poland’s Protestant minority, so they paid a visit to the institute. Over tea and refreshments, Dr. Bryćko gave...

August brought with it a weekend visit from Rev. Dr. Slava Viazovski, who spearheads the Christian publishing house Gospel & Reformation (started in 2003 as a work of Evangelical Press Missionary Trust) in Minsk, Belarus. In May 2019 Slava was ordained in the PCA...

In July, Rev. Dr. Chris Wisdom (retired church planter, pastor, military chaplain, and former vice president of Erskine Theological Seminary) led a workshop on the role of elders and deacons. He examined the topic of church office from a biblical perspective and...

In June, 80+ middle/high-school students from a local private school took field trips to the institute for a tour of the book collection and a talk on historic Polish Reformed thinkers like Mikołaj Rej and Jan Łaski. The students now know that they can access over...

In April Tolle Lege hosted a group of 18 people from the historic Temple Neuf, a Reformed congregation in Strasbourg, France. John Calvin pastored this church from 1540-41 after being forced out of Geneva. The current pastor, Rev. Rudi Popp, had written in advance...