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Darryl G. Hart and Camden Bucey converse about family and Sabbath through the writings of Wendell Berry.

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Books by Wendell Berry

• What are People For?
• Hannah Coulter
• A World Lost
• The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
• Jayber Crow
• Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community: Eight Essays

Darryl G. Hart recently joined Camden Bucey of Reformed Forum to share a few thoughts on American Presbyterianism.  The conversation is casual and covers a range of topics including the modernist-fundamentalist debates of the early 20th century and the historical developments of women in office.

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Darryl G. Hart and Camden Bucey discuss the relationship of various Christian epistemologies to a two-kingdoms approach to Christ and culture.  The discussion has been posted at Reformed Forum.

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by Jason Stellman

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For too long I struggled to recommend reading on the subject of living the Christian life as “resident aliens.” Often I was reduced to directing readers to liberal Methodists (such as Hauerwas and Willimon) as the best embodiment of Christian convictions. At last I can point to practice that is firmly grounded in Reformed theology. Dual Citizens is written by someone who loves the world: its movies, its music, and its authors. But this is a rightly ordered love because it is a penultimate love. Here is a robust pilgrim theology that marches on to Zion while avoiding the pitfalls of asceticism and legalism. By putting earthly kingdoms in their proper place, Pastor Stellman demonstrates how rightly to use the present world even as one eagerly awaits the next. John R. Muether

The subject of Christ and culture have never been as popular among conservative Protestants in the United States as it is today, and the topic has never needed as much attention from the perspective of the church. It gets that attention in this important book by Jason Stellman. Dual Citizens will certainly upset those used to thinking of Christ as mainly the transformer of culture. But for genuine wisdom not only on the culture wars, but on the culture, ways, and habits of the church, Stellman’s discussion is the place to go. D. G. Hart

Darryl Hart recently spoke with Mark Dever of Capitol Hill Baptist Church and 9 Marks Ministries.  Hart endures a barrage of pointed questions from Dever and has opportunity to discuss many of the ideas familiar to Hart’s readers.  The audio can be downloaded here.

Seeking a Better Country is a readable and lively survey of American Presbyterianism since its founding in 1706. Its aim is not to celebrate but to understand how Presbyterians formed one of the largest and most influential denominations in the United States, and those historical developments that led to their decline.

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Contents

• Allen E. Rich Growth Without Growing Up
• Bryan A. Pieters The Reformed Faith & Its Latest Substitute
• Townsend P. Levitt Big Sky Diarist: Worship Disenchanted
• 39 Alexander Hall
• Second Hand Smoke
• Index of Articles from Volumes 1-10

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Darryl G. Hart joined the panel on Christ the Center to talk about his book Deconstructing Evangelicalism. Hart points out that Evangelicalism actually is an umbrella term used to unite conservative Christians from different traditions. There never has been a generic Evangelical. The panel discussed the different senses of the word “Evangelical” and noted that the use of the word today in America is more or less governed by the rise of Neo-Evangelicalism in the mid-twentieth century. Perhaps it is best to identify oneself by one’s denominational affiliation. Listener’s will find this discussion timely and fascinating.