Great history of Machen – and then ties to exploring and pushing back and believing and being skeptical of worldviews.

“Richard Burnett has persuaded me to assign, alongside Christianity and Liberalism, one or two of the letters from Machen’s student days, when he argued that “‘safe’ and ‘dangerous’ are words that must be banished absolutely from the vocabulary of the student. He must seek simply for the truth.” One of the most important lessons today’s undergraduates can learn is that no person, no matter how easily we might caricature him, is born with a mature set of beliefs. Even for Machen, faith was a struggle. We have the obligation to struggle, too.” www.firstthings.com/article/2…