“One Little Hour”

ShowForth recently released a website about the Great Awakening that is a companion to their documentary DVD. The site has supplementary resources for students and teachers, such as biographies, essays, and primary sources.

Props to Lincoln Mullen.

Currently I am researching for a seminar paper on the politicization of Carl McIntire and what his story can tell us about the re-entrance of evangelicals into political discourse during the 1950s and 60s. Very little academic work has been done on Carl McIntire (though now that Princeton is processing his papers I expect more to follow) except for one 2007 article by Heather Hendershot in the American Quarterly.

Dr. Hendershot began the article with a piece of correspondence to Carl McIntire from an anonymous listener of his radio show, The Twentieth Century Reformation Hour.

500 years ago Moses said, “Pack your camel, pick up your shovel, mount your ass, and I shall lead you to the Promised land.” 500 years later, F.D. Roosevelt said, “Lay down your shovel, sit on your ass, light up a Camel, this is the promised land.” Today, Nixon will tax your shovel, sell your camel, kick your ass, and tell you there is no promised land.

P.S. I am glad that I am an American, I am glad that I am free, but I wish I were a little doggy and Nixon were a tree.

Theological liberals have found themselves caught between a rock and a hard place during the once-a-decade Anglican convention known as Lambeth Conference 2008. For the past five years, the Anglican Communion / Episcopal Church (I shall refer to the joint group as Anglican from now on) has suffered repercussions from the election of openly homosexual clergyman Gene Robinson to the bishopric of New Hampshire. (more…)

Last week the Board of Westminster Theological Seminary voted 18-9 for the suspension of Dr. Peter Enns from the faculty effective at the end of the schoolyear. The Board passed the issue to the Institutional Personnel Committee (IPC) reccommending that Dr. Enns’ tenured position be terminated. (more…)

Tonight my friend Michael was applying to Westminster Theological Seminary, a school of great importance to modern church history because of its connections to Machen, Ockenga, McIntyre, and Van Til. It is unsurprising that the Masters, Th.M., and Ph.D. at Westminster are generally focused on church history rather than secular history; it is a seminary after all.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am currently attempting to earn a graduate degree focused on modern church history, but I believe a nearly exclusive focus on church history can create an (more…)