“While their benefits have no doubt been many, church pageants have also had the unfortunate result of making us think that biblical characters did little more than stand around in their bathrobes.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 39
White Boy Summer, or How Republics Rot
Introduction: When the thick fog of a judicial stupor has descended upon a people, there is really no way to write a sprightly article that will successfully explain to everyone how we might ...
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Freedom, Not Fussiness
“When the Spirit is grieved by elder boards packed with schoolmarms, liberty disappears along with any understanding of what true liberty even is. And when we have lost this understanding in the community of saints, we are dreaming to think we can find it anywhere else . . . Not to put too fine a point on it, we are becoming slaves of men in the political realm because we do not care enough about understanding liberty in the church. Freedom frightens us.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 37
As It Should Be
Those Vulnerable Not Sins
“A willingness to turn sins into crimes will always end up with a willingness to turn not-sins into crimes. The spectacle of an ATF anti-alcohol SWAT team crashing the wedding at Cana ought to be sufficient to make the chilling point.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 36
Sins and Crimes
“We appear constitutionally incapable of distinguishing sins and crimes . . . When the hounds of righteousness are in full-throated pursuit of any public sin or sickness, it is perilous not to join in the chase. These civic bloodhounds currently have the tobacco companies up a tall pine tree, and while some aesthetic satisfaction can be gained from the spectacle of Philip Morris staring down at us like a concerned possum, there really are some deeper issues at stake.”
The Cultural Mind, pp. 35-36
Not Different Truths, Just Different Tribes and Teams
In news that should startle and amaze precisely no one, it appears that a controversy has broken out on Twitter. It happened on this wise. In response to the #BuffaloMassacre and #ReplacementTheory, Jackie Hill Perry tweeted this: “Say what ya want about Farrakhan (because there’s a whole lot to say) but this right here is …
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Nothing Good, I’ll Tell You That
“If knowledge puffs up, what does pseudo-knowledge do?”
The Cultural Mind, p. 33
Letters to Brighten Your Morning
Letter to the Editor: I feel like at some point I recall you mentioning the biblical origin of wives taking their husbands last name at marriage. If this rings a bell, it would be ...
Moral Capital and the Public Square
“When the prodigal son ran off and began spending his inheritance, he did not find himself broke after five minutes of wasting money. When the inheritance is considerable, as ours was, some considerable time may elapse before the checks start to bounce.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 29