Announcing a New Contributor to the HSF
The Helwys Society Forum is pleased to announce that we have added a new regular contributor: Josh Colson. Over the past year or so, he has contributed several guest posts, including one on evangelicalism and another on Free Will Baptists. Colson is a native of Southern Illinois but presently serves as the senior pastor of Brandon’s Chapel Free Will Baptist Church in Stewart County, Tennessee. In addition to pastoring, Josh is an...
Recommended Books (Summer 2021)
As the summer winds to an end, the oppressive heat and humidity are likely to drive us inside as much as possible. Use that nice air-conditioned time wisely, though. We can fill this time with many good books. Below, you will find some of our most recent reads that we think are important. We offer a wide range of subjects that readers from all walks of life will find interesting. If you have a good recommendation, please leave us a...
HSF Conversations: Live Not By Lies
After a month-long hiatus through the month of July, the HSF is back with another Conversations. In this discussion we talk about Rod Dreher’s most recent publication, Live Not By Lies, which the HSF previously reviewed here. Among other things we give an overview of the book, discuss first impressions including some critical analysis, consider the problems that Dreher identifies, and talk through how we can respond to these...
HSF Conversations: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
We introduce our most recent HSF Conversations by summarizing Carl Trueman’s newest book, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Crossway, 2020), which we use as a springboard to talk about issues related to the gospel, history, the influence of ideas, and personhood. Check it...
Recommended Books (Spring 2021)
Christians are most in need of building strong communities of faith and practice during times of cultural strife and alienation. Rod Dreher’s recent publication, Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, builds on his earlier work to argue this point well. Specifically, he reports that persecuted Christians in the Soviet Union clung desperately to good literature and historic theological works as they labored to remain...
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