Category Archives: J. Gresham Machen

Family and Sabbath

By admin | Published: March 9, 2010

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

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Was Machen Wrong Not to Appeal to Union?

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 15, 2010

Writing on Gal. 2:19 (“For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God”), a verse smack dab in a passage where Paul talks a lot about being “in” Christ, Machen writes the following: The law . . . led men, by its clear revelation of what God requires, to… Read More→

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The Two-Kingdom Case for Blue Laws

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 12, 2010

(Not to be confused with the “Blue Letter.”) In 1933, the years the Philadelphia Eagles football club started (thank you Dan Borvan), the state of Pennsylvania considered reforming its laws prohibiting commercial activity on Sunday, the Christian Sabbath, so that football players and coaches could play in the afternoon. (How would the NFL make it… Read More→

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Some Happy New Year

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 1, 2010

Seventy-two years ago on January 1, J. Gresham Machen died. He was fifty-five. It was a great loss to the church and the Reformed tradition. It is a sober way to wake up after a night of revelry. (If you care to drink a toast, you have time to recover. Machen did not die until… Read More→

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Machen on Roman Catholic Indoctrination

By D. G. Hart | Published: December 22, 2009

Since the Christian school advocates are invoking Machen, here is one more relevant quotation that may clarify his views on American liberty and how it affects folks from different faiths even if they happen to be in the Protestant majority. Since Machen refers in the following to debates over public education, the quotation may also… Read More→

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Machen, the Educational Ecumenist

By D. G. Hart | Published: December 19, 2009

So Machen thought highly of Christian day schools among the Dutch Reformed. He also thought that public schools had their place. And to round out the picture, here he is on Lutheran education: . . . it should, I think, be made much harder than it now is to enter the Church: the confession of… Read More→

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Machen on Public Schools

By D. G. Hart | Published: December 19, 2009

Thanks to S. M. Hutchens at Touchstone for this reminder of what Christian school advocates selectively leave out when quoting Machen: A public-school system, in itself, is indeed of enormous benefit to the race. But it is of benefit only if it is kept healthy at every moment by the absolutely free possibility of competition… Read More→

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“Office Hours” at Westminster California

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 17, 2009

Not to be confused with the BBC show, “The Office,” and not to confuse David Brent with W. Robert Godfrey (though sometimes I wonder), Westminster California is starting a podcast entitled “Office Hours.” Season One features interviews with Godfrey and Julius Kim. A preview of the season is now available, complete with instructions and incentives… Read More→

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Being Faithful in a Secular World

By Camden Bucey | Published: August 14, 2009

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.

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Machen Day 2009

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 28, 2009

    The man who was born on this day in 1881 is worth remembering if only because he could write as clearly as  and as courageously as the following:     If what we have said so far be correct, there is now living a Saviour who is worthy of our trust, even Christ… Read More→

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