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Category: Engaging the Culture

And Here We Are

Posted on Monday, November 17, 2025Tuesday, November 11, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“Cultures apart from Christ cannot avoid the abyss. Cultures apart from Christ cannot stand . . . Cultures apart from Christ must eventually call down the chaos. And here we are.”

Mere Christendom, p. 230

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The Assigned Task

Posted on Friday, November 14, 2025Tuesday, November 11, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“He didn’t say copy the nations. He didn’t say run from the nations. He said disciple the nations.”

Mere Christendom, p. 230

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Christmas Spirit

Posted on Friday, November 14, 2025Monday, November 17, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
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Our Only Task

Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2025Tuesday, November 11, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“The Christian response must be to insist that all of their idols have to be overthrown. That is what true Christian cultural engagement is. That is the only thing that Christian cultural engagement can ever possibly be.”

Mere Christendom, p. 230

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True Response

Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2025Tuesday, November 11, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“In the face of the kind of evil that is abroad in the world, evangelical Christians need to stop filling up their worship services with sentimentalist treacle and to start worshiping biblically in a very dark world.”

Mere Christendom, p. 227

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Against That Day

Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2025Tuesday, November 11, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“We cannot get people back to a love for God by means of sentimentalist kitten hugging. We do it by declaring the wrath to come, and the staggering provision that God has made for ugly and defiant sinners against that day of wrath.”

Mere Christendom, p. 226

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Picking a Basket of Novemberries

Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2025Tuesday, November 11, 2025 by Douglas Wilson - 28 comments

Letter to the Editor: My husband recently listened to a podcast discussing the book 'White Knights and Reviling Wives' being published by the Ogdens. Afterward, he stated that if I ...

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The Actual Standard

Posted on Monday, November 10, 2025Monday, November 10, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“I have often argued that Christian parents ought to accept the fact that their job is not to get their children to simply conform to the standard, but rather to get their children to love the standard.”

Mere Christendom, p. 225

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Principles and Methods

Posted on Friday, November 7, 2025Friday, November 7, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
“Back in the day, brigands and highwaymen would take your purse by waving a cutlass under your nose, and a modern mugger might use a Glock, about which the prophet Isaiah says nothing. This should not leave us scratching our heads about the lawfulness of armed robbery.”

Mere Christendom, pp. 224-225

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Ah, the Meetings

Posted on Friday, November 7, 2025Friday, November 7, 2025 by Douglas Wilson
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