Shall I Explain What’s Going On? No, Seriously . . .

This will not be a sustained argument, explaining everything in cogent and meticulous detail, but rather a random collection of observations, somewhat in the style of Mystery Science Theater. Don’t try to figure out the flow, in other words. But if you stay with me, as you know you probably should, by the end you …

Not An Option

“But no nation of Christendom will ever occupy the same place or position that Israel did. This is because the church—which is international in its genius—was commanded to disciple all of the nations, not leaving any of them out. So there will never be a Christian nation that will be the chosen nation. That is no longer an option.”

American Milk & Honey, p. 164.

Glory Days

“The popular expressions of American exceptionalism are as old as dirt. There is nothing new about top dogs vaunting themselves over their top dogginess. This is the most unexceptional form of exceptionalism possible. This high school has been here for many decades, and nobody currently knows who the senior class president was twenty-five years ago. Nobody knows because nobody cares.”

American Milk & Honey, p. 160