“Too often the picture of men at church is that of the hapless drone, maneuvered through the doors by a pious wife. He is not exactly spiritual, but he is docile, and that is reckoned to be close enough.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 7
Unusually Cogent Responses to Letters Today
Letter to the Editor: No Forgiveness/White Orcs For the most part I really enjoy your blog. But every now and then I get the impression you're in a war against the content you find in memes ...
Or Skin Tint
“The feminist movement is a sham because there is no scriptural covenant binding all women together into a sisterhood—any more than solidarity exists between people with the same birthdays, or eye color.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 2
Don’t Do It . . .
A Shapeless Sack
“Without a legitimate bond, all attempts at community will be fragmented and atomistic. Because of our modern emphasis on individualism, this is a common problem. Our ‘communities’ have lost their former molecular strength—we see families and communities that have the atomistic structural rigor of a sack full of BBs.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 2
All Connected
“A Christian worldview is not a patchwork crazy quilt, with all kinds of oddments thrown together and sewn on. No, a Christian worldview is more like a scarf knitted from one skein of yarn. Everything in it is connected to everything else.”
The Cultural Mind, p. xv
Understanding Guys
Dear Darla, In order to interact with guys generally, in order to date one of them, and in order to marry one, it is highly recommended that you have some understanding of what you are getting into. ...
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Beware of the Hot Words
“Nothing ages more rapidly than the current lust for contemporary relevance, and nothing ages more gracefully than an attitude of caring more about whether an observation is true than whether it is contemporary, or edgy, or emergent. Emergent was a hot word back then.”
The Cultural Mind, pp. xiii-xiv
SCOTUS and Throckmorton, Two Hot Takes, Sorry About That, I Know It’s Early
SCOTUS: Yesterday somebody leaked a draft opinion written by Justice Alito, in which we were given a strong indication that Roe v. Wade was going to be struck down. In response to this, I tweeted the following. If Roe has been struck down, then glory to God. But sit tight—the unprecedented leak means that we …
Against All Hope, More Letters
Letter to the Editor: Wow, great stuff. Thanks, Pastor Doug. All the things I'm no longer surprised I didn't learn in my public school education :) Gil -- Doug responds: ...