“This is why the hippies didn’t need to sell out in order to become yuppies. It’s not that the system ‘co-opted’ their dissent, it’s that they were never really dissenting.”
Nation of Rebels, p. 158
And So Has to be Much More Careful With That Exegesis
“On some issues, the theological liberal is better able to state what the teaching of the Bible is. This is because he is able to say, for example, the apostle Paul thought this way, and wasn’t it quaint? The evangelical, on the other hand, is required to believe whatever Paul taught in the Scriptures; the conservative is stuck with the results of his exegesis”
Forgotten Heavens, p. vii
Let Them Eat Carob Cake
“Organic food is simply the latest category of ‘premium’ consumer goods . . . Organic food is one of the major forces driving the return to an almost aristocratic class structure in the United States, in which the wealthy no longer eat the same food as the poor.”
Nation of Rebels, p. 154
And Credible Everywhere
“It is in Him that we live and move and have our being. God is the Lover, Jesus is the Beloved, and the Love between them is the Spirit. It is in the Triune Love that we live and move and have our being. This means that love is relevant everywhere.”
So They Want to Impeach the Dog
Introduction: So I posted a meme the other day, promising to follow it up with an article explaining myself, and so here I am, in fulfillment of my word. In what I write about this, please try to cast me, in your mind’s eye, as a disinterested commentator on public affairs, as an objective analyst, …
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Rebellion as Spark in the Pistons of Capitalism
“Thus the decline of white bread coincided with a boom in so-called artisan bakeries, along with the growth of powerful franchises like the Great Harvest Bread Company. And because these bakeries were not using mass production techniques, their loaves cost significantly more than Wonder bread. But there was no shortage of consumers willing to pay premium rates in order to avoid being victims of consumerism and mass society. Again the counterculture proved to be the vital spark driving consumer trends. It is not an accident that San Francisco is the home of both the $3 latte and the $4 sourdough.”
Nation of Rebels, p. 153
Extending Your Reach
“If you do not know how to be patient in the face of repeated provocations, your children are not going to know either. When you discipline your children correctly, you are loving your grandchildren.”
More Than One Letter, Guaranteed
Letter to the Editor: Ref: “The Slaves of Jonathan Edwards” Is there value to mentioning the year of jubilee, and the freedom, as well as hope of freedom, a slave would have under ...
A Little Something That Occurred to Me
So an idea for a meme occurred to me, and so I share it below. I will run it again on Wednesday, with an article alongside it, just brimming with explanations.
Which Was Perhaps a Bit Self-Serving
“If countercultural thinking has led to a certain naiveté when it comes to crime, it has encouraged an almost unconscionable glamorization of mental illness”
Nation of Rebels, p. 143