“When we try to preserve our originality by being as unique and cool as possible, what is actually going on is that we are copying other people with sidelong glances and we are unable to admit to ourselves that that is what we are doing”
The Slaves of Jonathan Edwards, Part 2
Introduction: For those late to the party, I wrote last week (9/18/19) about the slaves of Jonathan Edwards. This excited comment, and so I followed it up with a piece on white supremacy (9/23/19). ...
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The Anti-Club Club is Very Popular
“The problem, of course, is that not everyone can be a rebel, for the same reason that not everyone can have class and not everyone can have good taste. If everyone joins the counterculture, then the counterculture simply becomes the culture . . . ‘The club’ becomes less and less elite. As a result, the rebel has to move on to something new. Thus the counterculture must constantly reinvent itself. This is why rebels adopt and discard styles as fashionistas move through the brands”
Nation of Rebels, p. 129
No Robotic Saints
“The more like Jesus you are, the more like yourself you are going to be. The less like Jesus you are, the more monotonous and predictable it’s going to be. Sin is monotonous. Godliness is not.”
Letters, All on Edwards . . .
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for being a voice of reason in the national evangelical conversation about social justice/racial reconciliation. I appreciate your writing. ...
How Rapidly the Hot Cool Cools
“As soon as you go down the mass market road you lose control of who wears your product.”
Nation of Rebels, p. 127
No Other Way
“There are, of course, two types of imitation. True progress and godliness is something that develops through imitation, but because human beings are necessarily imitators, the same thing is true of ungodliness”
White Supremacy and the Cross
Introduction: Last Friday (and into the weekend) I got into a little Twitter skirmish with a handful of folks who were responding to my piece on The Slaves of Jonathan Edwards, found here. The ...
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Which Means Your Velvet Elvis Has to Go
“Because taste is grounded in the sense of distinction, it follows that not everyone can have good taste.”
Nation of Rebels, p. 125
Two Layers of Imitation
“Godly parenting is a function of becoming more like Jesus in the presence of little ones who are also in the process of becoming more like Jesus.”