H.L. Mencken Archives - AnarchoChristian

J. Gresham Machen

by AnarchoChristian | Mar 9, 2021 | All Posts, H.L. Mencken, J Gresham Machen, Politics

J. Gresham Machen’s contributions to fighting against the expansion of state powers is often forgotten or overlooked. With articles and podcasts, we hope to correct this with archiving his important contributions. From fighting against the formation of the...

J. Gresham Machen: A Forgotten Libertarian

by AnarchoChristian | Jan 1, 2021 | All Posts, H.L. Mencken, J Gresham Machen

J. Gresham Machen: A Forgotten LibertarianThis leading conservative Christian theologian opposed almost any extension of state power. Daniel F. Walker is an attorney in Tallahassee, Florida. “Everywhere there rises before our eyes the spectre of a society where...

The Impregnable Rock

by AnarchoChristian | May 4, 2020 | All Posts, H.L. Mencken, J Gresham Machen

The Impregnable RockBy H.L. Mencken (This article on Presbyterian scholar J. Gresham Machen, from prominent atheist and journalist H.L. Mencken, was originally published in The American Mercury, 24, Number 4, December 1931.) Thinking of the theological doctrine called...

Dr. Fundamentalis

by AnarchoChristian | May 4, 2020 | All Posts, H.L. Mencken, J Gresham Machen

Dr. Fundamentalis By H.L. Mencken (This obituary for Presbyterian scholar J. Gresham Machen, by prominent atheist and journalist H.L. Mencken, was originally published in the Baltimore Evening Sun [January 18, 1937] 2nd Section, p. 15.) The Rev. J. Gresham Machen, D....

What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Can Learn From Chesterton & Mencken

by AnarchoChristian | Feb 11, 2019 | All Posts, Economics, G.K. Chesterton, H.L. Mencken

What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Can Learn From Chesterton & Mencken G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) and H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) were near contemporaries, but they were not kindred souls. One was an Englishman; the other an American. One was a Catholic Christian; the...

Defending Scoundrels

by AnarchoChristian | Jul 18, 2017 | All Posts, H.L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken? In a Christian blog? While Mencken had some choice words for Christians (my personal favorite being: “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”), he also had some profundities that I think are invaluable for a Christian...