This will be a relatively short post, even though it deals with James Davison Hunter’s chapter on the Christian Right. This is because the chapter is simply a broad overview of the Christian Right’s take on what has happened to America, and what they want to do about it. For the most part, I found …
If It Comes in a Bottle . . .
When pressed with the bad behavior of atheist regimes, one of the oddest (and funniest) answers that the new atheists offer is that Stalin (say) erred by having his regime take on religious attributes. Peter Hitchens puts it this way: “And so the escape clauses come thick and fast. If atheism in practice appears at …
Wind Shepherds
Eric Hoffer described the trajectory this way. First you have a movement, which turns into a business, which then is transformed into a racket. This truth, and truth it is, should be constantly remembered by all those who are involved on the recovery of classical Christian education. We can do this in two ways. First, …
Look at All Those Alabaster Cities
In his most recent book, R. Emmett Tyrrell points out that the American conservative movement that grew up after the Second World War was a fusionist movement — a coalition of small government libertarians, anti-Communists, and traditionalists. As it happened, I was (and am) all three of those, and so I fit right in. But …
Fully Persuaded
INTRODUCTION: As we work through this chapter of Romans, we will find ourselves reinforcing the same principle over and over—love your brother, while keeping the big deals big, the middle deals middle, and the small deals small. Keep a sense of proportion—and as you monitor these things, look to your own sense of proportion first …
Less Glory Is More
The Bible teaches us that the times of the new covenant are attended with a greater glory than the old covenant, as well as with a greater simplicity. In effect, that simplicity is part of the glory. The arrival of Jesus the Messiah was not a signal for us to lapse into some kind of …
Our New Birthright
As you teach your children how to come to this Table, one of the things you should be cultivating is this: we come because we were invited, not because we are entitled. The invitation proceeded from grace, and is extended to us in grace. We don’t deserve any of it. The response we should have, …
The Fourth Commandment Raised
Our Father and God, You have established Your Church as a royal priesthood in this world, and so we intercede for the nations of men now, confessing on their behalf so that the grace of Your forgiveness will soon be extended to them all. Father, we confess that we as a people have wandered away …
Trace Elements of the Coming Glory
Last night my wife took a picture off our east deck (with her phone), and that pic is posted below. She put it up on her blog, and I wanted to do the same here, because it illustrates a point I have often wondered about. Why is it that nature photography is so limited, in …
Obama Rides a Dragon While Waving His Cowboy Hat
The second section of Hunter’s book To Change the World begins with a very short chapter, so I will consider it and the following chapter together. I want to begin by differing with what I believe to be a premature assessment, one that I commented on earlier. “As we have seen, though, Christians have embraced …