This is part 20 in our series from Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. Continue reading →
This is part 19 in our series from Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. Continue reading →
This is part 18 in our series from Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. Continue reading →
When I read Steelman’s essay, I tried to do so with an open mind. After all, until I saw Machen’s letter to his mother, I did not know concretely about his segregationist convictions. Honesty requires that we incorporate that fact (without exaggerating it or any single fact) into the story about Machen and into my understanding of who he was and what he did. Continue reading →
This is part 17 in our series from Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. He shows the impossibility of remaking Jesus into a modern liberal preacher. Continue reading →
This is part 16 in our series from Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. He shows the impossibility of divorcing doctrine from Jesus’ own teaching. Continue reading →
This is part 15 in our series from Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. He is discussing the impossibility of separating doctrine from Christianity. Continue reading →
This is part 14 in our series in which Machen explains the importance of a particular doctrine. Continue reading →
This is part 13 in our series in which Machen shows the importance of doctrine, even if it means one Apostle must correct another. Continue reading →
This is part 12 in our series. In this episode Machen explains how the founders of Christianity get to say what it is. Continue reading →
This is part 11 in our series. In this episode Machen discusses the penchant of theological liberals to use traditional Christian language in less than orthodox ways. Continue reading →
This is part 10 in our series. In this episode Machen continues his discussion of educational choice and what happens to freedom when that is lost. Continue reading →
This is part 9 in our series. In this episode Machen turns his attention (ch. 2) to the state of education. Though he published the book 100 years ago, it could have been written last week. Continue reading →
This is part 8 in our series on Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. Continue reading →
This is part 7 in our series on Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. Continue reading →
‘We have lost a man whom our times can ill spare, a man who had convictions which were real to him and who fought for those convictions and held to them through every change in time and human thought. There was power . . . Continue reading →
This is part 5 in our series on Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. In this episode Dr Clark describes the so-called “social gospel.” Continue reading →
It does seem to me that there can never be any true advance, and above all there can never be any true prayer, unless a man does pause occasionally, as on some mountain vantage ground, to try, at least, to evaluate the age in which he is living. And when I do that, I cannot for the life of me see how any man with even the slightest knowledge of history can help recognizing the fact that we are living in a time of sad decadence—a decadence only thinly disguised by the material achievements of our age, which already are beginning to pall on us like a new toy. Continue reading →
This is part 5 in our series on Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. In this episode Dr Clark describes the so-called “social gospel.” Continue reading →
This is part 4 in our series on Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. In this episode Dr Clark describes the so-called “social gospel.” Continue reading →