Paleo Protestant Pudcast
Protestants outside the orbits of evangelicals and mainliners talking about church stuff.
The Pudcast and co-hosts return thanks to the news coming out of the Middle East and stories about American Protestants' understanding of Israel and Jews.
/episode/index/show/e3de9cb7-c07a-48a2-b290-45f4a8ba6ce0/id/31533432After a long hiatus, the Hillsdale History Protestant confessionalists are back to talk about denominations under the broader heading of institutional Christianity. Co-hosts include Korey Maas, resident Lutheran, Miles Smith, resident Anglican, and /episode/index/show/e3de9cb7-c07a-48a2-b290-45f4a8ba6ce0/id/31533437
On July 28, 1881, J. Gresham Machen was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Four decades later he was an important figure in the Presbyterian controversy between conservatives and modernists, thanks in part to his 1923 book, Christianity and Liberalism, which (if you do the math) turns 100 this year.
/episode/index/show/e3de9cb7-c07a-48a2-b290-45f4a8ba6ce0/id/31533442Did you know that the enrollment of Mennonite students at denominational colleges is in decline (and has been or a decade)? You probably didn't and you may not care if you have traditional confessional Protestant disregard for Anabaptists. But that trend is not isolated among Mennonites. Evangelical colleges have /episode/index/show/e3de9cb7-c07a-48a2-b290-45f4a8ba6ce0/id/31533447
Anglicans were in the news in April which provoked co-hosts Miles Smith (Anglican), D. G. Hart (Presbyterian), and Korey Maas (Lutheran) to talk about they way confessional states operate in comparison to confessional churches. Are confessional states like England or Scotland stricter th
/episode/index/show/e3de9cb7-c07a-48a2-b290-45f4a8ba6ce0/id/31533457This time co-hosts Miles Smith (Anglican), D. G. Hart (Presbyterian), and Korey Maas (Lutheran) talk about the limitations of the American Protestant binary that divides white Protestants into either evangelicals or mainline (can you say "liberal"?). If a Protestant group doesn't fit one of
/episode/index/show/e3de9cb7-c07a-48a2-b290-45f4a8ba6ce0/id/31533462In this conversation, co-hosts Miles Smith (Anglican), and D. G. Hart (Presbyterian) lean heavily on Korey Maas (Lutheran) to make sense of the dust up in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod ov
/episode/index/show/e3de9cb7-c07a-48a2-b290-45f4a8ba6ce0/id/31533472After a holiday break, co-hosts, Korey Maas (Lutheran), Miles Smith (Anglican), and D. G. Hart (Presbyterian) catch up on highlights of downtime (and don't even mention the liturgical calendar) and then converse about a species of Protestant that goes by the name, "ecclesiocentric post-liberals." A mouthful. Th
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