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Category: Engaging the Culture

The Letters Have Turned Decemberesque

Posted on Tuesday, December 2, 2025Tuesday, December 2, 2025 by Douglas Wilson

Letter to the Editor: "Was Chamberlain a long-suffering saint, or was he an appeaser—to use Churchill’s metaphor, a man who throws others to the alligators, hoping to be the last one ...

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We Want It Hot and Now

Posted on Monday, December 1, 2025Monday, December 1, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“But one of our current problems is that we are a convenience store civilization, and we want the next iteration of our civilization to be obtainable the same way we get coffee at the convenience store. We want to plonk our two dollars on the counter and walk out of there with the coffee.”

Mere Christendom, p. 244

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On Suffering Fools Gladly

Posted on Monday, December 1, 2025Monday, December 1, 2025 by Douglas Wilson

Introduction: If I might, I would like to introduce another metric to help us understand our social and cultural and political landscape, the landscape that is disintegrating all around us. This ...

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A Tidy Profit

Posted on Friday, November 28, 2025Friday, November 28, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“When nothing grows up but troubles, we are called to become trouble farmers, and to sell our crop at a tidy profit.”

Mere Christendom, p. 243

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AI Transforms Everything

Posted on Friday, November 28, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
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A November Manifesto

Posted on Friday, November 28, 2025Friday, November 28, 2025 by Douglas Wilson

Introduction: The task before us is far more comprehensive than spot cleaning our cultural carpet. The West has more problems than a stubborn stain here or there. We stare at the carpet, thinking ...

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To Pray for the End is to Pray for the Means

Posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2025Wednesday, November 26, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“We cannot pray for the purification of the silver, and then despair when we begin to approach the furnace that removes the dross.”

Mere Christendom, p. 242

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The Other Direction

Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2025Tuesday, November 25, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“We were taught to pray that the kingdom would come to earth, not that the kingdom would float off into the sky. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Not Thy will be done in Heaven when we get there.”

Mere Christendom, p, 240

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The Last of the NQN Letters

Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2025Tuesday, November 25, 2025 by Douglas Wilson - 111 comments

Letter to the Editor: My question is related to your interview with Sam Harris. In that interview you both talked a lot about slavery.In your ideal Christendom, where we have God-honoring ...

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God’s Resurrection Move

Posted on Monday, November 24, 2025Monday, November 24, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“The West is dead. Long live the West.”

Mere Christendom, p. 237

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