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Machen on mountains and mankind

From Wayne Sparkman's Today in PCA History blog, a talk on mountain climbing by J. Gresham Machen, founder of Westminster Seminary and what became the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Here are a few excerpts: Can the love of the mountains be conveyed to those who have it not? I am not...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 15, 2015 12:58 AM

"Any society has to privilege some ethical viewpoint"

The headline quote is from the Grauniad*, the left-wing British newspaper, from an editorial pooh-poohing concerns about the marginalization of Christians in the officially Christian United Kingdom. Here's the context (emphasis added): They claim then that it would violate their consciences to do or say certain things which society as...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 23, 2015 10:20 PM