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Nothing Else to Give

Posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2025Friday, July 25, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“The principles here is that you export what you manufacture. Whatever your fields are growing, that is what gets loaded onto the ships. Whatever your life and heart are cultivating, that is what you are going to give to your kids. You can’t give anything else.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 114

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Letters on the Threshold of the Dog Days

Posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2025Monday, July 28, 2025 by Douglas Wilson - 41 comments

Letter to the Editor: No jitney politics; no banana republic . . .Just consequences for crimes. That's all. If someone loses an election, that is not a crime and should not . . . EVER . . ...

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The Cassandra Effect

Posted on Monday, July 28, 2025Monday, July 28, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“The difficulty manifests itself when accurate predictions are made about moral deteriorations. In such cases, vindication is usually no vindication at all. By the time the predicted moral deterioration is complete, nobody is in any moral shape to analyze what just happened.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 3-4

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Legalism Is Not When Someone Loves God More Than I Do

Posted on Monday, July 28, 2025Friday, July 25, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“Application is not legalism. Obedience is not legalism. Legalism is inventing your own standard. But doing what God said to do the way that God said to do it is not legalism at all: ‘hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee.’”

Keep Your Kids, p. 112

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Gamaliel, Hot Heads, and Pan-Flashes

Posted on Monday, July 28, 2025Monday, July 28, 2025 by Douglas Wilson

Introduction: Early on in the book of Acts, the apostles were hauled in because of their disruptive preaching, and after they told the Council that they were going to obey God and not them, the ...

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsCulture and PoliticsMere Christendom

The Ultimate Standard

Posted on Friday, July 25, 2025Friday, July 25, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“God does not just give a set of laws. He tells us to love Him. We aren’t told to grit out teeth and conform ourselves externally to a certain set of actions. The principal command is to love. The ultimate standard is to love.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 112

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Some FLF Info, and Who Doesn’t Need That?

Posted on Friday, July 25, 2025Friday, July 25, 2025 by Douglas Wilson

This coing October I’ll be in Nashville, and will be speaking at the annual Fight Laugh Feast Conference. As is normal with such things, the conference’s topic changes by the year, and so this year’s topic is School Wars: Rebuilding Christendom With Your Kids.  I have been involved the retrieval of real education since the …

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And Apparently a Sore Spot

Posted on Friday, July 25, 2025Saturday, July 19, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
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Could Happen to Anyone

Posted on Friday, July 25, 2025Thursday, July 24, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsYour Friday Funny

Don’t Try This at Home

Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2025Thursday, July 24, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“Ruth was a virtuous woman, but she had some reputation issues: generally you don’t go out to the threshing floor and sleep at a man’s feet until he wakes up. That text is not usually used in courtship seminars.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 106

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