“The modern world represents in some respects an enormous improvement over the world in which our ancestors lived; but in other respects it exhibits a lamentable decline. The improvement appears in the physical conditions of life, but in the spiritual realm there is a corresponding loss. The loss is clearest, perhaps, in the realm ofContinue reading “Machen on Socialism and the Modern World”
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Machen on Schools
“When one considers what the public schools of America in many places already are-their materialism, their discouragement of any sustained intellectual effort, their encouragement of the dangerous pseudo-scientific fads of experimental psychology-one can only be appalled by the thought of a commonwealth in which there is no escape from such a soul-killing system…A public schoolContinue reading “Machen on Schools”
“Unfashionable” – Tullian Tchividjian
Christians make a difference in this world by being different from this world; they don’t make a difference by being the same. What does it look like to live a Christian life? When people look at us, what should they see? Should Christians stand out, visible against a backdrop of non-believers? Should they have thatContinue reading ““Unfashionable” – Tullian Tchividjian”