Dan Greenfield

  • Henry Sloan Coffin, professed “liberal evangelical”

    In The Presbyterian Controversy: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Moderates (by Bradley J. Longfield, 1991) the author gives short biographies of key men during the controversies in the Presbyterian denomination from 1922 to 1936. The fundamentalists are represented by J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937) and William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), with Henry Sloan Coffin (1877-1954) representing the liberals. Coffin Read more

  • “Do we set a high estimation on Christ?”

    Puritan Thomas Watson answers this question in his The Godly Man’s Picture, providing good thoughts for prayer for myself and others (pp. 50-53): 1. If we are prizers of Christ, then we prefer him in our judgments before other things. Gregory Nazianzene solemnly blessed God that he had anything to lose for Christ’s sake. 2. Read more

  • Raising depressed preachers’ spirits

    An 18th century Calvinistic Methodist, John Evans from Cilycwm, Wales, “was prone to depression. Once, he and Dafydd Morris were on a journey in Anglesey and preaching at Cerriglleithir, the home of Sion Roland. After the service, John Evans was very uncommunicative. He sat, in a depressed slump by the fire at one end of Read more

  • Roman Catholic Dialogue and Collaboration with Buddhism

    Here is a link to the official Vatican statement in Italian and here is a link to a Google translation of it. On Friday, June 17 at the Vatican Pope Francis welcomed a delegation of dozens of Thai Buddhist and Catholic representatives. They met to commemorate the 50th anniversary meeting between Buddhist and Roman Catholic Read more

  • Ah, Holy Jesus

    Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended,that we to judge thee have in hate pretended?By foes derided, by thine own rejected,O most afflicted! Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon thee?Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone thee!‘Twas I, Lord Jesus, I it was denied thee;I crucified thee. Lo, the Good Shepherd for the sheep Read more

  • A Biblical and Theological Response and Statement of Opposition to Women Serving in the Military and Registering for the Draft

    I gave a presentation on this subject April 11, 2022 at the American Council of Christian Churches’ Spring Rally at the First Evangelical Methodist Church in Gaston, NC. You can download a PDF my presentation here. Read more

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