“The tragedy of our time is that the Church currently wants to be cool, and for a host of reasons, as long as it remains recognizably Christian, it cannot be.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 101
Cooler Than Thou
“The category of cool represents a postmodern attempt to establish a relativistic antithesis. In this view, the human race is divided into two categories, square and hip, or, put another way cool and uncool. Unless the false conservative antitheses, the boundaries keep shifting. And unlike the liberal view, there really is an avowed antithesis between those who meet the standard and those who do not.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 100
Letters in Every Direction
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for your article, “A Daisy Chain of Non Sequiturs.” I wanted to know if you think that the civil government should enforce the first table of the ...
Augustine, Priorities, Rightly Ordered Affections, and the Red Pilled Among Us
Introduction: I think we need Augustine's help to get us out of a frightful muddle that our partisan rancor has gotten us into. I am not talking about the enmity between the orcs and elves, between ...
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And a Little Harder This Time
Aesthetic Rot
“A man in error will pick up the wrong side of a debate. But a relativists says that all such debates are silly and unproductive. There is no debate, because there is no answer.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 98
The Right Kind of Beauty Treatment
Dear Darla, Whenever we feel stuck in some place, the temptation is to think that we know and understand all the variables. We know that we are stuck, and we therefore assume we know why we are stuck. You notice your birthdays are continuing to go by, and you had assumed when you were a …
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Letters Beyond Compare, At Least Until Next Week
Letter to the Editor: You may be our congregation’s only hope of settling a dispute which is headed toward splitting our church. You’ve heard of churches splitting over the color ...
A Daisy Chain of Non Sequiturs
So let us talk for just a moment about Christian nationalism, Not the Bee, and me. Last week I made some headlines, just like the man with the corduroy pillow. I had written a blog post in which I explained (cogently) the sense in which we should want America to be a Christian nation. We …
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Not Self Aware
“There is only one thing worse than being wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked, and that is to be all five of those things and add to it the sixth misery of not knowing about it.”