HSF Conversations: Reflection on the Election
In this episode of HSF Conversations, Matthew Steven Bracey and Phillip T. Morgan reflect on the 2024 presidential...
The Industrial F·a·m·i·l·y
Political and cultural conservatives have spent the last several decades sounding alarms about the state of the family in our society. We can easily find a slew of articles or podcasts bemoaning the rise of single motherhood, sexual libertinism, pornography, and abortion. However, as Wendell Berry noted in the early 1990s, these “conservative” defenses of the nuclear family have generally rung hollow because they have failed to...
HSF Conversations: Biblical Inerrancy
Churches and pastors often talk about being “Bible-believing” people, but what does that mean? What doctrines and practical implications are there for believing the truth of the Bible? In this episode of HSF Conversations, contributors Jesse Owens and Christopher Talbot discuss the importance of the doctrine of biblical inerrancy, its perennial significance, and its practical importance for the believer and the church. They seek to...
Recommended Books (Autumn 2024)
This autumn we would like to share some good reads we discovered over the past few months. These selections represent a wide array of topics that we think will interest you. Some selections will be great for personal reading, others for family time. Most of all, we think they will broaden your understanding of God’s creation and His work in it because they have had that result in our lives. Please leave us your favorite reads in the...
HSF Conversations: Ordinary Means of Grace Church Planting
In this episode of HSF Conversations, Ed Goode and Daniel Mann, church planters in Illinois, join us to discuss ordinary means of grace church planting. We discuss church planting books and blogs, whether or not those resources promote ordinary means of grace ministry, what ordinary means of grace ministry is, and what ordinary means of grace ministry looks like in the life of the church. About Ed Goode: I grew up in a happy home and...
Frugality: A Habit for the Steward
by Sarah Lytle Lydia Maria Child called extravagance “the prevailing evil of the present day” in 1828.[1] Her book The American Frugal Housewife taught families how to live within their means. After reading that book, I began to consider the relationship between frugality, as Lydia Maria Child named it, and Biblical stewardship. Over the past few years, I have become interested in nineteenth-century cookbooks and other books written...
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