“One of the principal causes of grief in our broader culture today is that we have taken His instructions to Larry and assigned them to Moe, and the instructions given to Curly have been taken up by Larry.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 16
Principled Thought
“As we look at the eternal antithesis between right and wrong as it looked when clothed in the details of another time, we will be equipped to see what can never be buried and what should be. We will see ideological fads and fashions, as well as the permanent things.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 14
On Not Being Catty About It
Dear Darla, I told you in my last letter that guys are pretty straightforward. This is not to say that there are no complicated men, for there are, but taking one thing with another, guys are less complex than women. It can take a women some adjusting to get used to this, because underneath each …
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The Devil’s Stragglers
“The biblical pattern of evangelism was not at all like our modern method of picking off the devil’s stragglers, but rather a pattern of bringing the good news to household after household.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 8
But It Is Not Close Enough
“Too often the picture of men at church is that of the hapless drone, maneuvered through the doors by a pious wife. He is not exactly spiritual, but he is docile, and that is reckoned to be close enough.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 7
Unusually Cogent Responses to Letters Today
Letter to the Editor: No Forgiveness/White Orcs For the most part I really enjoy your blog. But every now and then I get the impression you're in a war against the content you find in memes ...
Or Skin Tint
“The feminist movement is a sham because there is no scriptural covenant binding all women together into a sisterhood—any more than solidarity exists between people with the same birthdays, or eye color.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 2
Don’t Do It . . .
A Shapeless Sack
“Without a legitimate bond, all attempts at community will be fragmented and atomistic. Because of our modern emphasis on individualism, this is a common problem. Our ‘communities’ have lost their former molecular strength—we see families and communities that have the atomistic structural rigor of a sack full of BBs.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 2
All Connected
“A Christian worldview is not a patchwork crazy quilt, with all kinds of oddments thrown together and sewn on. No, a Christian worldview is more like a scarf knitted from one skein of yarn. Everything in it is connected to everything else.”
The Cultural Mind, p. xv