presbycast

Hillsdale college professor Dr. Darryl G. Hart joins us to talk about J. Gresham Machen's views on race, racial issues in the church and society, his new book on the Reformation, and the implications of the Intellectual Dark Web for the world of ideas and social media...and even for the confessional Reformed. Oh, long-time presby social media maven Sean (@seansgame) sat in with us as well. Purchase Dr. Hart's latest book here. Read a piece on the Intellectual Dark web here.

Long, ragged, full of inside baseball -- it was the call-in show to end all call-in shows...but the takeaway is that the Reformed world is a small and very weird world. Not for the impatient or faint of heart.

We spoke with Joshua Gielow, a Reformed apologist who attended the Revoice conference held recently in St. Louis. He tells us what he saw and heard and why he left the conference concerned for the future of the "gay Christian" movement. Follow Joshua at @JoshuaGielow and be sure to visit Truth Xchange's website. Read Truth Xchange founder Peter Jones' article on Revoice here. (Edited to remove erroneous personal information)

This episode presents the audio from a YouTube video of an address by Dr. Rosaria Butterfield recorded the day before the recent Revoice conference on the subject of celibate gay Christianity. The source of the audio is unclear -- we will gladly remove this content if the speaker or host account ask us to do so. It is unaltered. Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVjj_dDAxLA

We finish our discussion with Dr. C.N. Willborn on the life and work of PCA and Reformed Theological Seminary founding father Dr. Morton H. Smith (1923-2017). Dr. Willborn taught with Dr. Smith at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and shared his interest in Southern Presbyterian history. This discussion centers on the founding of the PCA. Our earlier discussion was more personal and biographical. And here's an earlier episode which features Dr. Smith's thoughts on the PCA in the early 21st century. Here is Dr. Smith's obituary. And here is a link to an address he delivered at the founding of the PCA. Learn more about Dr. Willborn here. He has pastored Covenant PCA in Oak Ridge, TN for the past 10 years.

Here are a few words from CW and and an almost five-minute clip from an address at the Revoice conference (1:05:35-1:10:10 of linked video).

Long-time PCA ruling elder Bob Mattes joins us to talk about a terminology he developed to describe the state of the PCA -- tribal congregationalism (as opposed to plain ol' presbyterianism). Here are a couple of his articles on the subject: A Tale of Two Letters Tribal Congregationalism and the Future of the PCA

It's the week of the Revoice conference and CW has some thoughts from the front seat of the Presbaru. The referenced presbytery report: http://mopres.org/safari/article/30.html Pastor's response to criticism and "misrepresentations".

Our friend Will (@lawyerbarrett) sits down virtually with Wresby to discuss his foray into the world of evangelical leadership conferences.

We are joined by @oldschoolpresby whose Dutch heritage and membership in four NAPARC denominations gives him a unique perspective on the P&R landscape. And we talk about Reformedish Xianese words, terms, and tropes with which we'd gladly dispense.