H.L. Mencken on Abraham Lincoln

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If you have never read H.L. Mencken, he is worth discovering.  A strident skeptic of anything Christian (to put it mildly), he thought extremely highly of Protestant New Testament scholar and apologist J. Gresham Machen, even penning a poignant obituary for Machen upon Machen's death.  A lover of liberty, he found Abraham Lincoln to be worthy of great criticism (again, to put it mildly).  The attached document is a short piece by Mencken on Lincoln.  Particularly interesting is Mencken's criticism of Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address."  Of the heart of Lincoln's argument Mencken can say, "It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue."  Enjoy!

P.S.  This Mencken quote found at www.freerepublic.com

Allan Carlson Lecture/Seminars at Union University

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Allan Carlson of The Howard Center will be offering a public lecture, "Who Owns America? Agrarian Responses to Economic Crises of Yesterday and Today". Carlson is also author of numerous books, including "The Family in America: Searching for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age". For more info on The Howard Center, go to www.profam.org/. The lecture is sponsored by, and an initiative of, The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (www.isi.org). For more information contact Brad Green (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Carlson will lecture on Friday, April 29th (open to the public), at 6:00 pm, Harvey Auditorium, at Union University.  The next day (Saturday, April 30th)  he will be meeting with some students over several hours.  Attached is the precis of the theme of the weekend.

Secession, State and Liberty

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In light of events which occured 150 years ago this week, here is a link to an important and fascinating collection of essays: Secession, State & Liberty, edited by David Gordon.  The book contains some first-rate essays by folks like Donald Livingston, Murray Rothbard, Tom DiLorenzo, Clyde Wilson, and more. 

Donald Livingston and the Southern Intellectual Tradition

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I owe a debt I cannot pay.  One of the most intriguing and brilliant men I know is Donald Livingston.  Don taught philosophy at Emory University, and is a world-class David Hume scholar.  He is the founder of the Abbeville Institute, and is simply a wonderful man.  For many years now, Don has explored, explicated, and communicated the strengths and weaknesses of the southern intellectual tradition.  I have benefitted from his insights for a number of years.  His excellent essay Don wrote for Modern Age, titled, "The Southern Tradition and Limited Government," is attached.

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D.A. Carson on Declaring the Guilty to be Just

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D.A. Carson has spent his writing/teaching/preaching career explicating the meaning of the New Testament.  In this lecture Carson asks how it is that God can declare that the guilty are just.  This is one lecture in a series, based on Carson's book, The God Who is There.  The entire series can be found at the Gospel Coalition's web site, here.

Henri Blocher on the Necessity of the Atonement

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To my mind one of the most brilliant living theologians is Henri Blocher.  I have benefitted from his work for many years, and thank God for him.  Here is Blocher's lecture on "The Necessity of the Atonement."