So then first, what is this Overton Window? That window, named after Joseph “Wiki” Overton — who coined the phrase — refers to the range of ideas that are palatable, thinkable, acceptable, or otherwise within the pale, when it comes to public discourse. Outside the window, you’re just a hate-filled weirdo. In the area of …
The Overton Thingy
Yesterday I finished The Overton Window by Glenn Beck, the only Beck book I have read. This is what I posted at my Goodreads account about it. “I picked this one up in an airport on a whim. I had been hearing people froth about it, and wanted to see if it was as bad …
Brace Yourself for Tuesday Letters
Letter to the Editor: There is a group claiming that Doug teaches that a minister/elder must be married. Can you clarify Doug's position on this? Thank you! Christopher ...
Neil Shenvi Sets Up the Experiment Poorly
Introduction: Neil Shenvi made his name taking critical theory apart, and showing Christians how dangerous it all was. It was yeoman’s work, and he deserves a lot of credit for what he did during that time. And in the early days, he took a lot of flak from the left for what he was doing, …
The Tumult Continues
Introduction: Sometimes ten-year-old boys will throw a baseball at a nest of Asian hornets, and they do this because they are curious. They want to see what would happen. The hornets are also ...
In Which I Decline to Gilder the Lily
Introduction: Not only are we in the thick of a crisis, it is a crisis that is largely driven by human choices, reactions, personalities, and various other things that contribute to all our societal ...
Christ or Chemosh?
Introduction: There will of course be a temptation for conservatives to regard this particular rooftop debacle as just one more "art fail," and we have kind of gotten used to all of those. Those ...
The Naughty Boy of Evangelicalism
Introduction: One of the things I learned from the late Gary North was the three-fold division regarding different kinds of religion. There were, according to his taxonomy, these three: power religion, escape religion, and dominion religion. This grid can be applied to all religions, which means it can also be applied to the evangelical subsets …
Aaron Renn and the Negative World
Introduction: In a recent article at First Things, in a piece entitled The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism, Aaron Renn does an admirable job hunting for the black box that will explain for us what happened ...
On Wuh-Supremacy
Introduction: You might be tempted to think that we live in a time when all sorts of things have busted out all over. You know—riots, woke churches, COVID, masking orders, a rumored new album ...