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Category: Engaging the Culture

Part of My Explanation

Posted on Friday, March 17, 2023Friday, March 17, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“I am of Scots and Scots-Irish descent . . . For sheer cussedness, there is no finer group anywhere. The gods they worshipped, and then the God they came to worship, along with many centuries of hardscrabble living, created a certain ethos that had specific and great strengths and some pretty crazy weaknesses.”

Skin and Blood, p. 51

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

A Logical System . . .

Posted on Friday, March 17, 2023Friday, March 17, 2023 by Douglas Wilson
CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsYour Friday Funny

Worship Drives Culture

Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2023Thursday, March 16, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“Crimes motivated by racist animosity (in any direction) reveal a pathetic culture, the end result of worshipping pathetic gods.”

Skin and Blood, p. 46

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Not That Hard Actually

Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2023Wednesday, March 15, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“I take it as a given that any conservative Christian who addresses cultural issues at all is not worth his salt if he does not get himself accused of racism . . . It is therefore important to incur the charge of racism. It is equally important that the charge be a slander and a falsehood.”

Skin and Blood, p. 45

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Why Fox News Needs to Free Tucker. And Then a Word about the Gospel of Sovereign Grace

Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2023Wednesday, March 15, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

Political Diseases, Gospel Solutions: There are some who believe that our political diseases can be healed through bringing them into contact with other, more exotic diseases from other points on the ...

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And Makes Them Sad

Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2023Tuesday, March 14, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“Liars hate being caught. It throws them off their rhythm.”

Skin and Blood, p. 44

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

True in Both Directions

Posted on Monday, March 13, 2023Monday, March 13, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“Flannery O’Connor wrote that everything that rises must converge, but this must also be said of everything that is circling the drain.”

Skin and Blood, p. 41

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Letter Writing Builds Character

Posted on Monday, March 13, 2023Tuesday, March 14, 2023 by Douglas Wilson - 34 comments

Letter to the Editor: Some say that Karl Marx's statement "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" sounds similar to Acts 4:34-35. How do you respond to ...

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsLetters to the EditorOpen ThreadTroll Tuesday

The Demonization Gun

Posted on Friday, March 10, 2023Friday, March 10, 2023 by Douglas Wilson

“What I am rejecting is demonization. And to simply go along with what they are currently demanding is to help establish their authority to demonize. I don’t want to accede control of that process to them. I don’t want them to have the demonization gun—I know where they are going to point it next.”

Skin and Blood, p. 39

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Just a Little Something I Do

Posted on Friday, March 10, 2023Friday, March 10, 2023 by Douglas Wilson
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