“If a preacher is not a man of his age, in sympathy with its spirit, his preaching fails”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 40
Unlike Other People
“Professors like to talk about themselves, and so the key was to ask them to talk about themselves”
Ecochondriacs, p. 71
What Does it Mean to Be a “Conservative?” | Doug Wilson
Rules of the Game Though
The Space That Beans Take Up
“When they had moved from Choctaw Valley, Trevor had settled into his studies easily, and found that full-time load, given his energy levels, was really only about half time, and because his was a personality that was full of beans, with scarcely room left for one more bean, he saw right away that he would have to find some edifying way to fill up the remainder of his time”
Ecochondriacs, p. 69
The Content Cluster Muster (05.20.21)
Whom the Gods Would Destroy They First Make Mad: I think these people must have secured a vendor’s table outside the Banquet at Belbury. Interview on Rules for Reformers: How the Holy Bible Came to Be: You Know . . .: Can I Get An Amen?:
A Respectable Outlet
“Jill was an avid baseball fan, and was there at the stadium using up her season tickets as often as her schedule permitted. ‘It gives me an opportunity to yell at people without incurring any societal disapproval,’ she said. ‘That’s an argument,’ Larry said”
Ecochondriacs, p. 62
A Gallimaufry of Random Observations
Inspired by the spirit of our times, I have decided to throw together a gallimaufry of random observations. A salmagundi of insights, as it were, or an Eton mess of ironic inversions, a mélange of right wing virtue signaling, a potpourri of punditry. And see how you like it. This is the sort of moment …
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194: Hierarchy and the Fall
194: Hierarchy and the Fall