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Posted on Friday, November 14, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsYour Friday Funny

Immodest Wenches

Posted on Friday, November 14, 2025Friday, November 14, 2025 by Douglas Wilson

Introduction: My point in this post is not—lest someone mistake my point—to do anything so simple as decry immodest attire in women. And by the kind of immodesty I am not for the most part ...

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Our Only Task

Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2025Tuesday, November 11, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“The Christian response must be to insist that all of their idols have to be overthrown. That is what true Christian cultural engagement is. That is the only thing that Christian cultural engagement can ever possibly be.”

Mere Christendom, p. 230

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

True Response

Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2025Tuesday, November 11, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“In the face of the kind of evil that is abroad in the world, evangelical Christians need to stop filling up their worship services with sentimentalist treacle and to start worshiping biblically in a very dark world.”

Mere Christendom, p. 227

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Marriage and the Age to Come

Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2025Wednesday, November 12, 2025 by Douglas Wilson

Introduction: In working through the claims of full preterism, it is important to realize just how many other issues are connected to it. It is not just a matter of chronology or timing, and ...

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Against That Day

Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2025Tuesday, November 11, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“We cannot get people back to a love for God by means of sentimentalist kitten hugging. We do it by declaring the wrath to come, and the staggering provision that God has made for ugly and defiant sinners against that day of wrath.”

Mere Christendom, p. 226

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Picking a Basket of Novemberries

Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2025Tuesday, November 11, 2025 by Douglas Wilson - 25 comments

Letter to the Editor: My husband recently listened to a podcast discussing the book 'White Knights and Reviling Wives' being published by the Ogdens. Afterward, he stated that if I ...

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The Actual Standard

Posted on Monday, November 10, 2025Monday, November 10, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“I have often argued that Christian parents ought to accept the fact that their job is not to get their children to simply conform to the standard, but rather to get their children to love the standard.”

Mere Christendom, p. 225

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A Long Train of Abuses

Posted on Monday, November 10, 2025Monday, November 10, 2025 by Douglas Wilson

"Power is of an encroaching nature . . ." The Federalist Papers #48 Introduction: So let me tell you what the problem is. Once upon a time, ...

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Principles and Methods

Posted on Friday, November 7, 2025Friday, November 7, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“Back in the day, brigands and highwaymen would take your purse by waving a cutlass under your nose, and a modern mugger might use a Glock, about which the prophet Isaiah says nothing. This should not leave us scratching our heads about the lawfulness of armed robbery.”

Mere Christendom, pp. 224-225

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