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 →
John Muether On The Most Neglected Chapter In Machen’s Christianity And Liberalism
John Muether is Professor of Church History and Director of Libraries at Reformed Theological Seminary. He has written histories of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and on Cornelius Van Til. He’s a ruling elder in the OPC and has been the denominational historian . . . Continue reading →