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Wresby and CW talk about how to deal with a church that's less than ideal...as all are. Our apologies for the mysterious sunspot-related interference towards the end when the guys turn to a decidedly darker subject.

Dr. Darryl Hart of Hillsdale College joins us again for part three of our "Life of Machen" series covering the late 1920s to 1935 in this episode. The opening and closing songs are Machen's favorite hymn "There is a Green Hill Far Away" The opening version is a quartet recording from the 1920s. Here's the book that tells the story of Machen's years of controversy better than any other: https://www.amazon.com/Defending-Faith-Gresham-Conservative-Protestantism/dp/0875525636

LCMS minister Chris Jackson (@revcjackson) joins the boys to talk about things similar, things different, and concerns common to conservative confessional Protestants. We learn of Machen's great appreciation for his Lutheran brethren. Read more about that here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2014/01/j-gresham-machen-on-the-lutheran-church-missouri-synod/ P.S. -- How many small-town upper Midwestern pastors named Chris have we had on this podcast?

CW talks briefly about...the church's brief. What is the church's role in society? What should she do beyond ministering the means of grace? He also dodges a wild turkey. Here's the KDY article referenced: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/racial-reconciliation-mostly-almost-agree-likely-still-dont-agree/

Opinion writer Forfare Davis (@Pseudoplotinus) of The National Review (among other places) joins us to talk about 2018...and 1789 and everything in between. We examine American political theater, social media, good books, and bad food. Here are links to two articles we discussed as well as a podcast featuring Presbycast patron saint Peter Hitchens. https://www.nationalreview.com/postmodern-conservative/social-media-twitter-politics-republic-virtue-individualism/ https://www.nationalreview.com/postmodern-conservative/politicized-soul-and-death-wish-heart-liberal-disorder-forfare-davis/ Peter Hitchens on Delingpole's podcast SUPPORT PRESBYCAST ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/presbycast

The Rev. Chris Gordon of Escondido URC and Abounding Grace Radio joins us to talk about his controversial Reformation 21 article that draws warning from the case of the CRC for NAPARC denominations. Here's the article link: http://www.reformation21.org/blog/2018/03/the-burning-of-the-wooden-shoe.php Escondido URC & Abounding Grace: http://www.escondidourc.org/ http://www.agradio.org/

An article on secular musicians who supplement their income playing church gigs set us to thinking about music in the church, and we invited musician (church and secular) @JennMGreenberg and OPC pastor @ChristopherDrew to talk about psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, and dollars. Here's the story that prompted our discussion: http://www.dallasobserver.com/music/6-dfw-musicians-tell-us-whats-it-like-to-gig-at-church-10477625 This tweet has the Keller quotes: https://twitter.com/presbycast/status/978340219895267328

That's the question. In this short mobile episode CW encourages you to listen and discuss an interesting podcast where this assertion is made. http://confessingourhope.com/blog/2017/05/22/gospel-reformation-network-an-interview-with-mr-mel-duncan-dr-richard-d-phillips/

We present a reading of chapter VII (The Church) of J. Gresham Machen's classic book from 1923, Christianity and Liberalism.

We discuss the life of J. Gresham Machen from 1920-1929 with Machen scholar D.G. Hart of Hillsdale College. We often refer to Hart's essential work on Machen, "Defending the Faith". https://www.amazon.com/Defending-Faith-Gresham-Conservative-Protestantism/dp/0875525636/