“The tragedy of our time is that the Church currently wants to be cool, and for a host of reasons, as long as it remains recognizably Christian, it cannot be.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 101
Cooler Than Thou
“The category of cool represents a postmodern attempt to establish a relativistic antithesis. In this view, the human race is divided into two categories, square and hip, or, put another way cool and uncool. Unless the false conservative antitheses, the boundaries keep shifting. And unlike the liberal view, there really is an avowed antithesis between those who meet the standard and those who do not.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 100
Letters in Every Direction
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for your article, “A Daisy Chain of Non Sequiturs.” I wanted to know if you think that the civil government should enforce the first table of the ...
Augustine, Priorities, Rightly Ordered Affections, and the Red Pilled Among Us
Introduction: I think we need Augustine's help to get us out of a frightful muddle that our partisan rancor has gotten us into. I am not talking about the enmity between the orcs and elves, between ...
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Book of the Month/August 2022
Introduction: So the book I have selected for this month is the latest offering from Peter Zeihan entitled The End of the World is Just the Beginning. It is, in turns, exhilarating, encouraging, provocative, and horrifying. Even if you don’t buy his thesis wholesale, it remains a fascinating and informative read. This is his fourth …
Content Cluster Muster [08-04-22]
And Therein Lies the Catch: Caldron Pool Interview: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: A Festive Q & A: A Song Involving Friends and a Relative: Jokes I Like to Tell: Once a young man graduated with an engineering degree from MIT, and he did so with high honors. He was bright, industrious, …
And a Little Harder This Time
Aesthetic Rot
“A man in error will pick up the wrong side of a debate. But a relativists says that all such debates are silly and unproductive. There is no debate, because there is no answer.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 98
Content Cluster Muster [07-28-22]
An Anglican Limerick About Charles Haddon Spurgeon: There was a young man named SpurgeyWho didn’t like our liturgyBut his sermons were fineSo I make them mineAs do all of the Anglican clergy. Looks Bouncy: And more here. A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Yes, Quite: On Not Taking a Hint: Jokes I Like …
The Right Kind of Beauty Treatment
Dear Darla, Whenever we feel stuck in some place, the temptation is to think that we know and understand all the variables. We know that we are stuck, and we therefore assume we know why we are stuck. You notice your birthdays are continuing to go by, and you had assumed when you were a …
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