WWMD - What Would Machen Do?

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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By popular demand we bring Darryl Hart over from Michigan to the Chesapeake Bay State for a conversation about the fascinating life of J. Gresham Machen. His influence reached the highest levels of the U.S. government in matters of education, alcohol consumption, and military draft to name a few. We can’t help but ask how Machen would had approached issues on civil and religious life in our day.If that’s not enough for you, Darryl also brings up the life of H. L. Mencken and his relationship with Machen. Who was he? Could these two opposite poles have anything in common? You might be surprised!And as pipe smoke fills the room, the tables are turned as the guest takes over, and Carl is put on the spot to answer some serious questions!We have a several copies of "Defending the Faith" by D. G. Hart courtesy of P&R that we are giving away. Enter for your chance to win.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.5	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.6	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:32.8	Thank you. Welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:46.3	I'm here with my usual co-hosts, Amy Bird and Todd Pruitt.
0:49.6	And today we have a special event.
0:51.1	We actually have somebody on the show who's here by popular demand.
0:55.7	We've had at least, I think, over the last five years, three emails demanding that this man come on,
1:01.0	all from an IP address somewhere in Michigan.
1:04.9	Indiana.
1:06.1	Indiana, yeah.
1:08.4	It's Darrell Hart, who is a teacher of history at Hillsdale College in Michigan, the author of numerous,
1:17.9	excellent and thought-provoking books, and a blogger extraordinaire when it comes to, how can we put
1:24.6	this, generally speaking, winding up the right people. And we want to talk
1:28.9	to Daryl today about his area of special interest, and that is Jay Gresson-Machon. So it's great to have
1:34.9	you with us, Daryl. Thanks, Carl, and crew, it's good to be with you. Thanks for having me.
1:39.2	Thanks for coming on. Well, Daryl, I want to start with a very, the pressing moment question of the day, twofold
1:45.3	question. Would Gressam-Machan have signed the Nashville statement? And why haven't you signed it? Are you some
1:51.4	kind of pro-gay radical or something? Yeah, we were told that he would sign it if he were a lot.
1:56.3	No, seriously, would Jay Gresson Machen have signed the Nashville statement? I don't think so. I mean, I do resist questions about what Machen would do because I'm not the reincarnation
2:07.6	as much as I might like to think I am.
2:09.6	Actually, I'm closer to H.L. Mencken than J. Grasso Maiton because I was born three weeks
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