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Category: Engaging the Culture

Library Board Trustee Election

Posted on Monday, May 15, 2023Monday, May 15, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

I would like to encourage all my friends who are residents of Latah County to make a special point of voting tomorrow. The primary reason for encouraging this is that there are two conservative candidates running for a position as a Library Board Trustee. I already voted early so I don’t mind telling you that …

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsLocal Politics

Maybe Four Hundred Pounds

Posted on Friday, May 12, 2023Friday, May 12, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“Too much Calvinism, without the exuberant liveliness that comes from writers like Chesterton, will turn the reader into three hundred pounds of wet sand, and no fun at all at parties”(Chestertonian Calvinism, pp. 5-6).

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Always the Central Thing

Posted on Friday, May 12, 2023Friday, May 12, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

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Yeah, More Like That

Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2023Thursday, May 11, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“The argument of the book does not unfold like a Monarch butterfly unfolding from a chrysalis but is rather more like a moth taking fifteen runs or so at the same light bulb.”

Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 5

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Believers and Buzzkill

Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2023Wednesday, May 10, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“Chestertonian Calvinism has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to have been way too much fun and not tried.”

Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 3

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Public Theology Comes Out Your Fingertips Also

Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2023Wednesday, May 10, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

Introduction: I appreciated the fact that Scott Aniol decided to review Mere Christendom , and I would like to pursue the conversation further if I might. If we keep this up, we might actually ...

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CategoriesEngaging the CultureTheology and Calvinism TagsFrom the RiverMere Christendom

We Aren’t Helping

Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2023Tuesday, May 9, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“Our labors at racial harmony are often like that woman in the gospels—the more the physicians treated her, the worse it got.”

Skin and Blood, p. 138

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Letters Wend Their Way to Us

Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2023Tuesday, May 9, 2023 by Douglas Wilson - 50 comments

Letter to the Editor: "So allow me to run ahead and anticipate the sneer. “Oh, so now he thinks he’s a Churchill!” No, not at all, but I am afraid I will have to do until he gets here." ...

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsLetters to the EditorOpen ThreadTroll Tuesday

Ultimate Destinations

Posted on Monday, May 8, 2023Monday, May 8, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“Do not ask how fast it is going. Ask rather what direction it is going. There are only two directions—the New Jerusalem or the Abyss.”

Skin and Blood, p. 131

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

The Sinkhole of Secularism

Posted on Monday, May 8, 2023Monday, May 8, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

The Backdrop of Understanding is Always the Eye of Faith: "Faith is so quick a grace that it presents things past, things above and things to come—all in a moment, so quick, is this eagle-eye ...

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsMere Christendom

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