1881 HT: Dan Graves J Gresham Machen was born into southern aristocracy in Baltimore, Maryland on this day, July 28, 1881. Through inheritances, he became wealthy as a young man. At one time and another, his grandfather on his mother’s side and his own father each left him $50,000 in a day when a family could…
HT: Christian History Institute J. Gresham Machen was a Presbyterian theologian who felt his church was abandoning Bible truth. He became a controversialist and eventually a leading voice in a breakaway denomination. In a lecture delivered in London on this day June 17, 1932, he defended his engagement in controversies and arguments over faith. Quote “Men tell us…