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Toxic Religious Assets

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 19, 2011

Americans don’t pay much attention to the National Council of Churches anymore. In my classes when I ask students if they have heard of the NCC I usually receive blank stares. (For what it’s worth, not many students or Americans pay much attention to the National Association of Evangelicals.) Back in the day, memos from… Read More→

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You Know, For Kids

By D. G. Hart | Published: November 17, 2010

Is this the way we view catechesis, you know, for kids? My own experience as an elder is that I am harder on covenant children during interviews than adults. Questions generally work through the Trinity, Scripture, justification, sanctification, the sacraments, and church government. That’s for the kids, mind you. And if they know their Shorter… 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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